The average Brit checks their phone over 10,000 times a year

The average person will check their mobile phone more than 10,000 TIMES in a typical year - with almost 4,000 glances done completely out of habit.

A survey of smartphone users revealed we will unlock our phone 28 times each day, but ten of these are purely compulsive acts, checking with no particular goal in mind.

One in ten phone enthusiasts even confess to opening their device more than 60 times in a 24-hour period.