Digital Wellbeing Beta Points to Flag Trivia Mini-Game and Screen Time Reminder Rework

The mini-game described by Android Authority presents a flag each round alongside four possible countries. Three hearts in the upper left act as lives, with a wrong guess costing one heart, and a trophy in the upper right tracks the player's top score as correct answers accumulate. The publication said it found no other mini-games in the app, and that the code strings tied to the trivia feature offer little indication of what Google intends to do with it.

Digital Wellbeing has been positioned as a set of tools for limiting time spent on a phone, including screen time limits and rest reminders, which makes a game inside the app unusual. Android Authority wrote that a feature built around limited lives and a high-score counter is not a prompt to meditate and could itself be stressful for some users. How the mini-game would fit into the app's broader purpose remains unclear.

The second change concerns screen time reminders. In the current interface, reminders are switched on for all apps by default, and users deselect individual apps by tapping checkboxes to exclude them. In the version Android Authority examined, Google appears to be preparing an alternative that lists only the apps that have reminders enabled and removes them with a trash button, with an overflow menu in the top right that clears all of them at once.

Under that alternate design, emptying the list would leave the user with an "Add apps" button to rebuild it. Tapping it brings up a list similar to the older one, where apps can be selected by checkbox, and a control at the bottom allows more apps to be added later.

Android Authority reported that Google has recently appeared to be working on a larger overhaul of Digital Wellbeing, which could remove existing features such as walk detection while adding new ones. The publication said it would continue to watch the app for further changes.