We all know that most people who use smartphones are, a lot of the time, addicted to their devices.
Those of us who are frequent checkers probably don't want to know how often they feel the need for notifications and/or validation, but we've found out anyway.
According toBusiness Insider, analyst Ben Bajarin attended a security meeting at Apple HQ where the unlocking statistics for iPhones were revealed.
It's 80 times a day, which means if you use your phone for 12 hours a day on average, it comes down to about once every ten minutes. Or 29,200 times a year.
Apple shared the stats because it wanted to illustrate that using fingerprint ID is much more efficient than inputting a PIN every time you unlock your device, which is a fair point.
*Picks up phone, puts it down again. Picks it up again. Forever*
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