While there are plenty of apps designed to track your screen time, a new app called "Touch Grass" takes a much more direct approach. It doesn't just track your usage; it actively tells you when it’s ...

The viral app, called Touch Grass, of course, will ask you to select two apps that you find to be the most distracting or the most time consuming, and the app will block them.

"It leverages Apple's Screen Time API to block apps, and when you attempt to access a blocked app, you'll receive a push notification prompting you to touch grass," he told Indy100.

The 'Touch Grass' app blocks your most addictive apps until you go outside and physically touch some grass.

I would argue that a bush is grass-adjacent, but the Touch Grass app is hellbent on making you touch actual grass, so the bush was not sufficient.

The Touch Grass app will block your most distracting apps until you (literally) touch grass. I'm already a fan. Katelyn is a writer with CNET covering artificial intelligence, including chatbots ...

Think your phone’s screen has you in a digital chokehold? This app will block those apps and will only grant access when you go out and touch some real grass.

"Someone on 'League of Legends' told me to 'touch grass' so I did," wrote the world No. 4 and avid gamer on social media after beating Karen Khachanov to advance to his first Wimbledon semifinal, ...

The Viral App That Makes You Touch Grass Before You Touch Your Phone Touch Grass uses GPS and light detection to confirm you’ve stepped outside before unlocking apps like TikTok, Instagram, and X.

If running outside to touch grass is not an option, the app allows you to choose to “skip” the touch-grass requirement once a month for free and then for at least 0.99 cents thereafter.

A new app will force users to actually touch grass in an effort to reduce their most addictive phone habits.