TikTok Adds Bedtime Mode That Shows Your Own Wasted Life Back To You
The app says the feature helps users wind down by confronting the shape of the night they just fed it.
TikTok has introduced Bedtime Mode, a new wellness feature that helps users wind down by showing them a slow, personalized montage of the life they have just fed into the app.
After 90 minutes of nighttime scrolling, the app dims the screen and begins replaying the user’s evening as a quiet sequence of abandoned laundry, cold tea, unanswered texts, and the moment they searched “can jaw tension be grief” before watching a man rank gas station pickles.
“We want people to have a healthier relationship with TikTok,” said product manager Jenna Ro. “Sometimes that means encouraging sleep. Sometimes that means letting the phone become a tiny black mirror that knows you chose this.”
The feature includes gentle prompts such as “You could have read two chapters,” “Your neck hurts because of us,” and “This creator is 19 and owns a lamp you want.”
Early testers praised Bedtime Mode for helping them put the phone down long enough to stare at the ceiling and hear the content continue inside their blood.
