When Apple shipped iOS 12 in June 2018, a small feature called Screen Time slipped onto every iPhone with a counter nobody had quite prepared for — a tally of pickups — and within a day Tim Cook was telling CNN the number of times he picked up his own phone was simply too many (opens in new tab)

Buried in the weekly Screen Time report Apple shipped with iOS 12 in June 2018 was a number called pickups — every time a hand reached for the iPhone, woke the screen, and unlocked it, the tally went up by one. On the day Apple introduced the feature at WWDC, CEO Tim Cook tried it […]