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Every week you get a weekly activity summary that details how you used your iPhone or iPad.

You tap in and you get to view your full activity report. It's really detailed.

You get deep inside on how much time you're spending, where you're spending it, and even how you're used breaks down during the day or the night.

I'm scared to know honestly to look at the end of the day and see how much time I spend on my phone.

When I'd like it, I don't know if it can break it down like this, but I'd like it to break it down on stuff that you could justify spending your time looking at and stupid stuff that's just a complete waste of effing time.

I want Tim Cook to stand next to me saying, what are you doing in effect? What are you doing right now?

Not sure they're going to do that, but it's in that direction. Jeffrey Fowler who's Washington Post Technology columnist joins us. Don't worry. Jeff is based out of San Francisco.

He's not part of the Eastern media elite. Mr Fowler, how are you, sir?

I am well. Thanks for having me on. It's our pleasure. Thanks. So maybe we'll start with the whole smartphone addiction thing at the developer's conference. Apple is talking about offer and help. What should we know?

Well, first of all, they did not use the phrase smartphone addiction. Actual sort of is finally stepping into the date, which I think is an important one to have, but they didn't exactly go to the phone.

But they didn't exactly claim that they were causing a problem. And that's I suppose they probably had lawyers that told them that right?

Like the tobacco people are not going to start talking about the addiction of cigarettes until they were forced to.

It's true, but it turns these whole affairs into sort of strange shows when you've been as you know, it's like what are we really talking about here folks?

And what we're talking about is the reason that you're, you know, it's two AM and you're just looking at your glowing phone screen and tapping heartphone Instagram.

Or, you know, when you, when you give an iPad to a six year old and take it away from him and it looks like you're trying to murder him by doing it.

We're talking about this sort of unhealthy relationship with our gadgets and Apple was finally responding to it. And earlier in May, we saw Google finding responding to it with Android.

And then early in the year, even Samsung was responded to it. So this is a big, big scene for 2018 and technology.

And the long and short of it, is it just monitoring tools to let you know what you're doing?

It's a couple of things in Apple's case. Yes, it starts with monitoring tools. There's a new area in iOS called screen time that will let you know how long you spend on particular apps and also kind of categories of apps.

And then you can use it to get a guess. It can tell you wave a finger and say, stop spending time on entertainment or eating apps so much.

And then within that, you can also then go in and set room limits for yourself. So like maybe you say, I really don't want to spend anymore than seven hours a day on Instagram.

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