TikTok will now reward you for less doomscrolling and sleeping well

New wellness hub adds a journal, soothing sounds and badges for healthier habits

By Manisha Priyadarshini Published November 19, 2025

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What’s happened? TikTok is launching a new space called Time and Well-being, designed to help users slow down, reflect, and develop healthier habits on the app. It’s an expanded version of its earlier screen time menu, but with more interactive tools, such as:

An affirmation journal for setting your intention for the day, with over 120 cards that can be saved or shared.
A soothing sound generator offering rain, waves, and white noise to help you relax and guided breathing exercises for mindfulness.
TikTok has also launched four new Well-being Missions that you can complete to earn badges for: sleep hours, daily screen-time goals, a weekly screen-time check-in, and inviting others to join the missions.
You can access the new space through Settings; it also surfaces automatically if you hit screen time limits or use the “Take a Break” feature.

This is important because: These updates go beyond telling you to log off by giving you tools within the app to pause and reset.

TikTok already has safety features for teen accounts, and the new space helps other users as well to manage doomscrolling and feel more balanced during long sessions.
Well-being Missions introduces a reward system where you get badges for spending less time on the app, encouraging mindful usage.
This shift is part of TikTok’s bigger push to address concerns about screen addiction, especially among young users.

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Why should I care? If you use TikTok, these features give you a smarter way to keep your scroll time under a limit. So keep an eye out as the updates are expected to arrive in the coming weeks.

People who doomscroll late at night can use the Sleep Hours Mission and sound generator to switch gears to fall asleep.
You can also use the journal and breathing exercises to use TikTok as a winding-down tool instead of feeding into screen addiction.
Meanwhile, TikTok has also added a new slider that lets you decide how much AI-generated content appears on your feed and control AI slop that has flooded social media feeds.

Manisha Priyadarshini

News Writer

Manisha Priyadarshini is a tech and entertainment writer with over nine years of editorial experience.

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