Smartphone addiction taking toll on sleep

ISLAMABAD: Most people are responding to messages, looking at social media notifications, reading news or replying to office emails in the middle of the night which has significantly disrupted their sleep patterns, a new study has warned.

The study found that almost half of 18 to 24-year-olds check their phones in the middle of the night.

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The study, involving 4,000 people in Britain, revealed that if users do not wake up to check their texts, they take time to scroll through their notifications right before bed, Science Daily reported.

Around 10% of users are likely to check their smartphones first thing in the morning.

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Less than a quarter of smartphone users are unplugging at least an hour before they go to sleep.

"Nearly 27% of smartphones include a fingerprint reader, of which 76% used while 31% of smartphone users make no traditional voice calls in a given week," the findings showed.