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The science behind an iPhone dumb phone

A breakdown of recent research supporting tactics for dumbing down your iPhone (as I've discussed previously). Dumbing down your iPhone can lead to a wide range of benefits, including improved attention, reduced stress and depression, improved wellbeing and reduced anxiety.

The research tends to be limited in some way (for instance, it’s difficult to gather a large group of people willing to stop using their phones for a while), which makes it tricky to tease out strong insights. Given it takes ~23 minutes to regain lost focus , just a handful of naughty notifications can completely upend your would-be productive morning. By their very nature though, they prompt us with new information, opening the floodgates to related — and very distracting — thoughts, which continue long after the initial ping fades.

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