Some Gen Zers — ages 14 to 29 — are ditching social media in pursuit of better mental health, Axios' Rebecca Falconer reports.

• It's part of a wider digital detox movement away from screens and toward analog options.
• Research suggests that social media use is waning — and that more people are embracing app-blocking products and "dumbphones" that lack social media apps.

📵 Chris Wells, a self-described former "Twitter and Instagram junkie," tells Axios that he's "99% off" social media after doing a "Month Offline" challenge.

• The 26-year-old says: "I didn't know who I was without my social media accounts, and when I quit, it was pretty miraculous."
• "The one thing that really came back to me was a sense of privacy. I hadn't really felt that since I was a kid."

🗑️ 17-year-old Aditi Ediga deleted her phone's social media apps last fall.

• Ediga says: "One reason why teenagers don't want to delete apps and stop using them is that they're scared they're going to miss out on stuff, and then I realized I wasn't really missing out on anything."

🤝 NYU social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, author of a bestselling book on the effects of childhood tech use, tells Axios: "What you're seeing now, especially among Gen Z, is a self-correction back toward real-world connection."

• "They've felt the costs of isolation and are rediscovering what actually leads to flourishing."

🤳 Yes, but: Plenty of young Americans are still spending countless hours on social media, with platforms facing calls to ban or restrict teen access.

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Bumble's swipe feature will soon be no more, founder and CEO Whitney Wolfe Herd told Axios' Sara Fischer on "The Axios Show."

💘 Wolfe Herd, who returned to the dating app as CEO last year, is making a big bet: ditching core features to pivot toward AI-driven matchmaking and attract new users ahead of a relaunch this year.

• The changes will roll out in select markets starting later this year, though Wolfe Herd was vague on what exactly will replace swiping.

💁‍♀️ Also changing: Bumble's signature women-go-first rule.

• Wolfe Herd said: "We will not force one gender over another to do something first" — adding that Bumble will preserve "the essence of what was always meant to be women making the first move."

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NASA this week uploaded a massive trove of new images taken by the Artemis II crew on last month's lunar flyby.

Some of the 12,000+ new photos offer a rawer glimpse through the Orion space capsule's windows, as in the image above.

• Explore the archive.