Proof women DO spend hours on their phones: Six women put new app that 跡をつけるs how much you use your 動きやすい to the 実験（する）... and were amazed at the results

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From banking to playing music, so many things can be done on a smartphone.?

And?new 研究 shows that the 普通の／平均（する） Briton now spends two hours nine minutes a day on their phone - twice as long as in 2012.?

But who are the worst 違反者／犯罪者s? Using specialist app Moment, which 跡をつけるs phone activity, Sadie Nicholas?put six volunteers, 老年の 12 to 61, to the 実験（する）.

Child: 17 hours 15 mins

'I hate 行方不明の any gossip on snapchat'?

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 2hr 27min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 161

Five most used apps: Instagram, YouTube, Whatsapp, Snapchat, Facetime

Most visited: Instagram (9hr 9m)?

Libby says:?'I hate 行方不明の any gossip on snapchat'

Libby Pugh, 12, lives in Worcestershire with her mum Clare, 40, a civil servant, stepfather Niall, 44, a stay-at-home dad, and siblings Miah, 17, Ollie, 13, and Lochlan, 19 months.

Libby says: Mum let me have a basic phone when I was eight, when she and Dad separated and I needed to keep in touch with each of them.

My friends got phones too, and I liked feeling 含むd by texting and using Instagram.

Everyone at my high school has an iPhone so Dad 扱う／治療するd me to one. We’re not 許すd to have phones switched on at school, though, and at home Mum won’t let me have 地雷 until I’ve done my homework. She has banned phones from the dinner （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する and I’m not supposed to use 地雷 after 9.30pm. But I do, as Mum has now 設立する out!

My friends 雑談（する） on Snapchat and Instagram, which is good fun, and I hate to 行方不明になる any gossip.

At home we all get annoyed with each other for 存在 on our phones. Mum is often checking emails or on Facebook ― then when she sees that we’re all on our phones too, she complains.

いつかs I go to see if Ollie or Miah want to play but they’ll be on their phones, so I 結局最後にはーなる switching 地雷 on, too. I’m surprised I only 普通の／平均（する）d 2.5 hours a day.

I’ve been 破産した／（警察が）手入れするd now ― I have to leave my phone downstairs at bedtime.??

選び出す／独身 Professional: 44 hours 56 mins

'I must get off my phone and get a life'?

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 6hr 25 min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 405

Five most used apps: Safari, LinkedIn, Facebook, Google 地図／計画するs, Twitter

Most visited: Safari?(9hr 21m)?

Kirsten Rees, 35, is a copywriter and author

Kirsten Rees, 35, is a copywriter and author. She is 選び出す／独身 and lives in Glasgow.

Kirsten says: Before I’ve even 小衝突d my teeth in a morning I’ll have checked 15 apps, 含むing social マスコミ.

Although I’ve had a 動きやすい phone since my 早期に teens, I was still shocked that I clocked up over nine hours of 審査する time last Wednesday. That’s insane. I rarely sleep for nine hours!

I was working from home and arranging to 会合，会う friends for my birthday, but it was still more than many people spend in an office for a day’s work . . . which has 始める，決める me thinking. I’m always telling myself I’m too busy to finish 令状ing my 商売／仕事 調書をとる／予約する and my novel. But am I really?

If I halved my phone usage I could have them both written in no time. Still, it’s going to be 堅い separating my phone and me.

I’m an 熱心な social マスコミ 使用者 and have accounts on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and Snapchat for 商売／仕事 and personal use.

I use Google for general 研究, Google 地図／計画するs because I’m always using public 輸送（する）, さまざまな banking apps, Kindle for reading and a music app. And they’re just my 正規の／正選手 ones!

When I’m out with friends I put my phone away, apart from taking photos. But other times I’ll 選ぶ it up to answer an email, then I’m straight on social マスコミ, chatting with friends.

I’m going to continue using the Moment app to keep tabs on my usage. Nine hours 星／主役にするing at a 審査する seems like a shocking waste of time!

十代の少年少女: 25 hours 8 mins?

'It's impossible to ignore a ping!'

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 3hr 34 min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 569

Five most used apps: Instagram, MapMyRun, Snapchat, BBC Sport, Facebook

Most visited: Instagram (9hr 12m)?

夜明け Brown, 17, is 熟考する／考慮するing for A-levels and 作品 part-time

夜明け Brown, 17, is 熟考する／考慮するing for A-levels and 作品 part-time as a 教える for 調査する Learning. She lives in London with her father, an accountant, and her mother, who retired from physiotherapy through ill health.

夜明け says: My parents gave me my first phone when I was ten, a 手渡す-me-負かす／撃墜する from my cousin, along with the big lecture about it 存在 for safety and not to be used at the dinner （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する. That was seven years ago ― now I’m barely off it!

I 接近 social マスコミ, listen to the 無線で通信する, check live 兵器庫 football 得点する／非難する／２０s and 演習 using the Nike or MapMyRun apps. I also use the Ocado app to do the 週刊誌 food shopping because of Mum’s ill-health.

ーに関して／ーの点で time I use my phone on the coach to school, a bit at lunchtime, then after school. I can’t remember what life was like without one. My 手渡すs feel twitchy and empty.

That said, my 審査する time is 予測できない. Some days I can easily clock up three hours, faffing around on Instagram and Snapchat. But on Saturdays when I work all day, with an hour’s break for a 運動ing lesson, I barely use it at all.

Although I don’t think I’m （麻薬）常用者d, it alarms me how 圧力（をかける）ing the 勧める is to 答える／応じる as soon as I hear the ping of a notification.

挟む 世代 mum: 27 hours 10 mins

'My phone keeps me awake at night'

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 3hr 53 min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 349

Five most used apps: Facebook, Gmail, Facebook Messenger, Twitter

Most visited: Facebook?(9hr 39m)

Laura Featonby, 49, is 選び出す／独身 and lives in Cheshire

Laura Featonby, 49, is 選び出す／独身 and lives in Cheshire with her daughters Konnie, 12, and Darcy, 14. She owns a travel company.

Laura says: I often tell myself I don’t have time to go to a yoga class five minutes from home, yet looking at the hours I spend on Facebook I have all the time in the world.

Although I communicate with （弁護士の）依頼人s through Facebook Messenger for work, I get sidetracked reading people’s comments and 地位，任命するs that pop up on my Facebook page.

Before I know it, 20 minutes have 消えるd.

I’m cross with myself about that, 特に as my time is now so squeezed between work, my girls and my parents, who are both in their 80s.

My mum is very 貧しく with Alzheimer’s and is 現在／一般に in hospital, so I spend a lot of time on my phone making calls to Dad, 加える 研究ing and 接触するing hospitals, social 労働者s and carers on their に代わって.

Those elements of my phone usage, and work activity, are 必須の.

But the Moment App has 最高潮の場面d that 同様に as spending too much time on Facebook, I’m a devil for 選ぶing up my phone when I wake in the dead of night.

Typically I wake up at 4am and instead of trying to nod off again, some nights I’m on my phone for 20 minutes replying to messages I didn’t get around to the day before.

I nag my daughters for spending too much time on their phones but I’m not 正確に／まさに setting a good example, am I?

Now, I’m 決定するd to 減ずる my phone use and get to that yoga class.

Silver surfer: 18 hours 35 mins

'My 動きやすい is like an 時折の friend'?

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 2hr 39min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 169

Five most used apps: Email, 見通し, Safari, WhatsApp, 公式文書，認めるs

Most visited: Email (8hr 43m)?

Moira-Ann Granger, 61, is a 地区 議員

Moira-Ann Granger, 61, is a 地区 議員 and 作品 in the family outdoor leisure 商売／仕事 with her husband Nigel, 62. She lives in Leamington Spa and has two children, Elliot, 34, and Hayley, 33.

Moira-Ann says: What has become （疑いを）晴らす from using this app is that I use my phone as a friend on days when I don’t have much work on, the 天候’s grim or I’m feeling a bit lonely.

Last Wednesday, for example, I was bored, catching up with laundry, so I sought solace in my phone, browsing (and sobbing) through photos from my daughter’s wedding last month. Mostly I use my phone for work, though, and field around 70 emails a day.?

But I don’t enjoy speaking on the phone. Friends are always surprised if I answer their calls, and I use WhatsApp to communicate with my children and husband.

If I’m busy I find it 平易な to forget about my phone ― last Friday I went to an 演習 class, then out shopping, and didn’t look at it until after 11am.

I have Twitter and I’m on Facebook but I rarely 地位，任命する anything. I’m more of a social マスコミ voyeur.

I feel I’m in 支配（する）／統制する of my phone usage. and if I’m at the dinner （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する or out with friends it stays in my 捕らえる、獲得する unless someone asks me to check a diary date. I don’t think I’m at the 行う／開催する／段階 where I have a problem with it. Yet…

Young Mum: 41 hours 3 mins

'I sp ent 14 hours on a game app last week'

Daily 普通の／平均（する）: 5hr 52 min

週刊誌 選ぶ-ups: 346

Five most used apps: Toy 爆破, Facebook, Safari, Email, Twitter

Most visited: Toy 爆破 (14hr 27m)

Hollie Gregersen, 32, is on maternity leave from her 職業 as a 買い手 in the public 部門

Hollie Gregersen, 32, is on maternity leave from her 職業 as a 買い手 in the public 部門. She lives 近づく 船体 with husband Richard, 39, a sales 経営者／支配人, and their sons James, two, and Ted, nine months.

Hollie says: My life is on my phone, be it banking, shopping, blogging, working, social マスコミ or engaging with 顧客s to 生成する new 商売／仕事.

But I wasn’t 用意が出来ている for the truth about just how much 審査する time I clock up. I’m both impressed and horrified by the app.

For me, the most embarrassing 発覚 is that I spent over 14 hours last week on a game app called Toy 爆破.

I’ve since 削除するd it in a 企て，努力，提案 to （人命などを）奪う，主張する my life 支援する and have been taking 公式文書，認める of the tips from Moment for 減ずるing my usage, such as leaving my phone out of reach. When my sons nap I immerse myself in my phone and 正当化する it to myself as 存在 mostly for work. But I’m easily sidetracked.

I can 正当化する a lot of it, though. I use parenting websites to connect with other mums. 存在 at home with young children can be terribly lonely.

My husband and I each moan about how much the other uses their phone, but we both play games on them to de-強調する／ストレス once the kids are in bed.

I now feel terrible for all the days I’ve said I don’t have time to visit a friend or 親族, when 明確に I do have plenty of time.

This week I’m going to put my phone 負かす／撃墜する for a while and go to visit my 年輩の grandparents instead of spending hours playing games or composing the perfect photo for Instagram.?