Usage tracking in the Digital Wellbeing service is apparently causing Google’s Pixel handsets to slow down significantly.
App developers and big tech companies alike have responded to growing concerns of smartphone addiction with an array of usage-tracking services that are intended to curb a user’s bad habits.
Google’s Digital Wellbeing service is one such app, promising to transparently track and measure your phone usage while simultaneously offering ways to minimize screen time in certain apps.
However, as evidenced by severalthreads on the r/GooglePixel subreddit, it looks like the app is responsible for instances of sluggish performance on the latest Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL flagship handsets as well as their just-released more affordable counterparts, the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL.
