The first step toward determining your risk for a smartphone behavioural addiction is awareness. If you have any reason to believe that you may be at risk, take a few minutes to complete this ...

Are you addicted to your smartphone? If so, you're not alone. A team of researchers at the University of Toronto have collected the largest set of data in any study regarding problematic smartphone ...

According to University of British Columbia neuroethics professor Peter Reiner, the feelings our phones give us are a product of our growing reliance on — and addiction to — the technology.

In the US, for example, nearly 57% of those asked in a recent survey admitted to being addicted to their phones. "There is evidence that problematic smartphone use impacts negatively on the lives of ...

In a new poll from Common Sense Media, half of teens report that they feel addicted to their mobile devices — and nearly three in five parents agree with that assessment. The survey of 1,240 ...

While her eight-year-old still doesn’t have a phone, she bought her 11-year-old a smartphone when he started to go out by himself. It has a screen plan that automatically shuts down after 8pm to ...

Are you addicted to your smartphone? In British Columbia, more than one in four people between the ages of 18 and 34 say they can’t live without it. That’s among the findings of an online poll ...

Smartphones, eh? Canadians are addicted Not only is smartphone ownership way up in Canada, users are getting increasingly addicted to their mobile devices, suggests a new report released by Google.

Fred Schwaller 07/21/2025 Quitting smartphone addiction is good for mental and physical health. But how do you do it? Here are some of the best science-based methods.