Average Screen Time by Age: 2025 Statistics

How does your screen time compare to everyone else? Here's what the latest research tells us about phone usage in 2025.

Overall Statistics

**Average daily screen time**: 7 hours 4 minutes (all screens)

**Average phone-specific time**: 4 hours 37 minutes

**Phone checks per day**: 96 times (once every 10 minutes)

**First phone check**: Within 10 minutes of waking for 80% of users

By Age Group

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Younger users spend significantly more time on phones, largely driven by social media use.

Most Time-Consuming Apps

1. **Social Media**: 2 hours 27 minutes/day

- TikTok: 52 minutes

- Instagram: 33 minutes

- Facebook: 31 minutes

- X/Twitter: 21 minutes

- Snapchat: 30 minutes

2. **Video Streaming**: 1 hour 12 minutes/day

3. **Gaming**: 48 minutes/day

4. **Messaging**: 32 minutes/day

5. **Productivity**: 28 minutes/day

The Problem

At 4.5 hours per day, you spend **68 full days per year** looking at your phone. That's time that could be spent on relationships, hobbies, exercise, or sleep.

What You Can Do

1. **Check your actual usage**: iOS Screen Time or Android Digital Wellbeing

2. **Set a target**: Try reducing by 30 minutes per week

3. **Add friction**: Apps like CatNap make accessing distracting apps harder

4. **Replace, don't just remove**: Fill phone time with better activities

Track With CatNap

CatNap shows you exactly how much time your cat has saved you from scrolling. See your "guard time"—the cumulative time your apps were blocked—and compete with friends on the leaderboard.