By age 16, the average teen will have spent more than a full year of their life on their phone.

The average person checks their phone 58 times a day — once every 17 minutes.

Nearly 50% of teens say they feel addicted to their phones.

The average person touches their phone over 2,600 times per day.

Teens who spend 5 hours or more on their phone daily are 70% more likely to experience anxiety and depression.

Heavy smartphone users have smaller gray-matter volume in brain regions linked to attention and decision-making.

Excessive screen time is directly linked to poor sleep quality and reduced emotional well-being.

More than 60% of adults say they can’t go more than an hour without checking their phones.

Parents now spend nearly as much time on their phones as their children spend on screens.

Even having your phone on the table — without using it — lowers focus and memory recall.

Heavy smartphone and social-media use correlates with increased rates of depression, anxiety, loneliness and suicidal ideation among youth.

Three weeks of reducing smartphone screen time to ≤ 2 h/day produced measurable improvements in depressive symptoms, stress, sleep quality and well-being.

More hours of mobile-phone use were associated with new onset of insomnia and depressive symptoms in young adults.

Adolescents who used a smartphone more than 4 hours per day had higher rates of stress, suicidal thoughts and substance use than those below 4 hours.

Screen time is prospectively associated with a range of mental-health symptoms — especially depressive symptoms — among children and adolescents.

Excessive smartphone use has been associated with depression, anxiety, social anxiety, low self-esteem, and long-term changes in brain structure.

The relationship between smartphone use and mental health is not uniform — personalized approaches are required rather than a one-size-fits-all ‘less screen time is better’ mantra.

Even small reductions in smartphone use — such as one hour per day — can lead to significant improvements in mental health and phone dependency.

Excessive mobile phone usage predicted higher levels of depression and anxiety among undergraduate students.