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iPhone dumbphone
I used Apple Configurator to turn my iPhone into a dumb phone. I can only access the apps and websites I want to use, and it’s feeling great! Compared to when I started I’m saving about 2 hours of screen time a day.
My iPhone gave me Google Maps, Spotify, Uber and Waymo, Kindle and Audible, ChatGPT and Claude, Whatsapp, Wallet. Social media companies spent centuries of human effort figuring out ways to get me to check my phone. In order to adjust restrictions, you have to physically connect your iPhone to your laptop and open up a kludgy piece of software.
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