Apple's new Mindfulness app lets you log in your “momentary emotion” and “daily mood”...

"... compiling a diary of feelings and their causes — perhaps family time makes you happy and time working in front of screens makes you sad — which could be reflected back as insights that might help make things better. [There] was a set of tools for improving users’ 'vision health,' with a focus on myopia.... Using data from device sensors, Apple will instruct users — especially but not exclusively young ones — to go outside, into the natural light, or to move their screens further from their faces....[while also selling you] the Vision Pro, a $3,500 computer that straps directly to your face...."

From "Apple Keeps Trying To Fix Its Users/The company’s guilty conscience is making it nudgy" (NY Magazine).

"[I]t’s the most dystopian product Apple has ever announced — the sort of thing that, if were I recording my emotional state on my iPhone, I might log as 'slightly unpleasant' to contemplate but also 'slightly exciting' to try.... The $3 trillion corporation wants its customers to behave differently without alienating them or becoming too implicated in the problems they want to solve.... In the context of government, the most powerful critique of the nudge is that, while often useful, it tends to cast diverse problems as the result of 'frailties in individual behavior' rather than the 'rules and systems' by and in which people live, precluding the possibility of fundamental change. Similarly, Apple, under the auspices of helping users 'take control' of their experiences, makes it clear that, ultimately, all this phone stuff is our fault. It’s up to us...."