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An iPhone owner’s guide to living off the app grid


Embrace a simpler existence on iOS.

When I was done, my haphazardly maintained system of folders with cute emoji labels was whittled down to just four apps in the dock and a handful of widgets spread across two pages, which I’m affectionately calling “Windows Phone 2.0.” And none of us knows quite when it happened, but more than one person I talked to agreed that the Siri suggested apps at the top of the search pane got really good at some point in the past. But if I’ve learned anything from this exercise, it’s that you don’t have to wait for AI or the metaverse or ambient computing or whatever to make your digital life less annoying.

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