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Psychologist reveals the secret details hidden in your app icons

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Popular apps, from WhatsApp to X, Instagram and Spotify have been deliberately designed to draw our fingers to them, psychologists reveal.

For example, WhatsApp and Messenger are made to look like buttons, which research shows we love pressing buttons right from childhood.

Dr Anastasia Dedyukhina said engaging, attractive icons make us 'more likely to tap and use the app' Dr Jay Olson , a postdoctoral scholar at McGill University's department of psychology in Canada , said changing app icons 'can definitely influence behaviour'.

Ofcom report found average Briton spends four hours and 20 minutes on their phone per day.

Ofcom said women spend 4 hours and 36 minutes online per day, while men spend 4.3 minutes .

A 2022 study in the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health linked compulsive use of a smartphone with 'burnout'.

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