The world is sometimes bad, but it feels even worse if you follow you through place and time, the 6 -inch screen of the smartphone. It makes you humorous with its compact, light blood that is so small to slip and take anywhere in your pocket, and its siren call is so strong that for some reason, we can’t sleep on our night stands without our phone.
When we are the weather The horrors of us aroundIt may be with you that if you do not pick up your phone several times a day for Domscrol, you will feel calm and more focused and balanced. It’s messed up with our minds Our day’s extreme, engagement bizing tectoccus enjoys just surround the just, just flip to X or Bluesky and see the headlines of the news.
Like any bad habit, it is difficult to kick the domscript. But it is not hopeless. So how do you stop domscrolling? It’s not so easy, but we have some ideas about how you can set yourself for success.
Understand that it’s not your fault
First of all, you don’t have a problem. The problem is that our lives are deeply connected to the tech companies who want to occupy more and more time. If I use my Apple Watch to track the workout, I end up looking at the crops to text messages when I am trying to catch my breath after running a standing hill. If I go to Spatifs to listen to a specific album, I open the app and immediately look at the recommendations for podcast and audio boxes that I am not usually interested in. Or if I completely download Snapchat for a group chat where my friends send pictures of their pets, each pet’s photo comes with some ad, unexpected notification, or an AR marketing filter for which I didn’t sign up. It’s not surprising that our phones make us feel crazy.
I am not sure that Mark Zuckerberg is sitting in his lava – maybe in his “Metorus” – dreams of ways to make my life personally spoil. But it is the hereditary nature of consumer -tech companies that our focus is what keeps them faster, and as much as we focus on them, their investors are happy, and stock prices increase. Despite the knowledge of how these companies run, it is still difficult to break their bad habits. I will still open my Instagram account to see what my friend sent me, just 10 minutes later I have to regain my consciousness, when I have seen dozens of rails.
Set the screen time limits, and take them seriously
For the first years after Apple introduced the screen time feature on the iPhones, I chose not to turn it out – I was afraid that I could learn about myself. But this fear himself told me that I had a problem. Knowledge is power, and if we know which apps are sucking most of our time, we can stop how much time we spend on them.
Here’s how to set a screen time limit for specific apps on iOS:
- Open the settings app.
- Scroll down at the screen time, which is indicated with an hour with a glass icon.
- Here, you can see your daily average screen time and hopefully reduce this average you can take care of yourself.
- Under the range, there are some different ways you can reduce your screen time: time and app limits.
- Downtime It schedules when you can use some apps. You may usually decide the down time for the hours while sleeping, or maybe you make maximum custom schedule daily. If you find yourself going to Instagram during class, it is probably the time to set the limit.
- Instead of choosing what apps have to restrict the apps during the time, you set out which apps you want Always allowWhich is also accessible under the menu of the range. If you have foreign friends and family, for example, you probably want to make sure you can always access the WhatsApp. Or, if you are like me and sometimes you need an audio box to sleep, you may allow unlimited lab access.
- Apps of the app Where you can decide how much time you want to spend on some apps daily. You can set the individual boundaries of specific apps, or maybe you can collect a category of apps (Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Teltok, X, etc.) and set overall time limit for these apps.
- Downtime It schedules when you can use some apps. You may usually decide the down time for the hours while sleeping, or maybe you make maximum custom schedule daily. If you find yourself going to Instagram during class, it is probably the time to set the limit.
Apple’s built -in screen time tools are effective, but they are a bit easier to compete. If you are watching a great ticket and suddenly find a popup that your time is over, you can just tap a button to give yourself another 15 minutes… and then do the same work after another 15 minutes.
Some people choose to use third -party apps to encourage them to reduce their screen time, which can relieve the potential losses of Apple’s current functionality.
Here are some apps that are designed to limit your screen time:
- Screen zenAvailable on iOS and Android, allows you to make popups that appear before opening some of your apps. Therefore, for example, before opening Instagram, you may see a pop -up of 10 seconds that wrote, “Is that important?” Before opening the apps, you may also have a deep breath to the app, and it remains within the limits of your success. My friend is currently working with a series of 144 days, which he refuses to sacrifice for an immediate shock to the sick Time Dopamine.
- MilkAvailable on iOS, Android, and the web, especially focuses on enhancing productivity in work or school. The app is more customized to limit screen time than Apple’s built -in features. You can not only focus on times, but also focus on how often you open the app (like, you may only want to open the Instagram app just three times a day).
- RootAvailable on iOS, not just paying attention to how much time you are spending on your phone, but also on the quality of the time. Some users especially like the app’s “monk format”, which can be activated to make any limit of their app ignore – even if you delete the app. But if you are really diligently diligently, you can open a “cheating day”.
We developed some physical appliances This can help you stop watching the screens.
Therefore, you have opened the tricktok and your screen time limits have refused to reach you, but now you don’t know what to do. You may stand in line at a coffee shop and you need disturbances. And of course, in an ideal world, we may be bored without any unreasonable combination, but it is not an ideal world.
Here are some other things you can do on your phone that does not include social media.
- Read a book. No, really. Like on apps ibooks And AlleviateYou can change your settings so you can scroll to read the book instead of changing the page through the page. You are literally scrolling, but instead, you will probably learn something.
- Don’t want to buy books? You don’t have to do! Libby You connect your library card so you can access e -books and audio boxes from your phone.
- Don’t know what to read? I am very sorry, but you have to detect it on the book.
- Play games. Certainly, games may also be accustomed, but at least the game will not inform you that the world has affected a new, unexpected way. Each app copies every other app, but in the form of cutting size, once daily sports, it’s good.
- New York Times Games The app will allow you to play quick games like Word, Strands, and Mini Cross Word, even if you are subscriber. But Gray Lady’s games have been so successful that other apps are taking bait.
- Listen to me Game on Linked Are really fun. Certainly, you can jump through your old, bad boss post, but especially the tango is at risk.