Most Adults Say They Overuse Smartphones

A Pew Research national survey finds just over half of U.S. adults say they spend too much time on their smartphone; 45% tried to cut back in the last year and only one quarter of those who tried judged themselves highly successful. These are population‑level measures of perceived overuse and the practical difficulty of reducing phone time for adults, not just teens. — If adults broadly recognize overuse but struggle to change, policy and design debates should shift from blaming devices to testing what interventions (workplace norms, app defaults, public campaigns) actually enable sustained reductions.