{"id":749496,"date":"2026-08-25T18:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749496\/"},"modified":"2026-08-25T18:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T18:30:08","slug":"7-science-backed-things-to-do-on-your-phone-that-are-better-than-just-scrolling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/749496\/","title":{"rendered":"7 science-backed things to do on your phone that are better than just scrolling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"RAZU2OZN7RAHJIOMIVPMPUGB4E\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Your smartphone can make your life better \u2014 if you\u2019re smart about it.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KJ7ERJL7YRBX5AVRH625ENC4DU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">The technology \u2014 and the time we spend on it \u2014 isn\u2019t inherently good or bad. But \u201cit can certainly worsen your mood, even among healthy people, depending on what you\u2019re using it for,\u201d said Jon Elhai, a distinguished university professor at the University of Toledo in Ohio who studies cyberpsychology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your smartphone can make your life better \u2014 if you\u2019re smart about it. The technology \u2014 and the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":749497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2306,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-749496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-mobile","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/749497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}