My Phone: A Success Story (for now)My iPhone home screen is text-only, with shortcuts to tools I use. I don't have a single distracting app installed. My screen is always in grayscale. I have Screen Time set on potential distractions, most notably Safari, and my dad has the password so I can't just disable restrictions. (I wonder how he felt when I asked him to set a password after years of breaking any rule or regulation my parents tried to set on my device use?) My ScreenZen restriction lists (there are multiple) are very long, blocking any app or website I could potentially derive dopamine from. Every time I discover a loophole, the lists get longer. From about 2023 to now, my phone screen time went from about eight hours a day to less than two hours. Qualitatively, the main change was that I went from regretting the time I wasted on my phone doing things I wouldn't remember by the end of the day to feeling neutral or even enjoying the time I spent, because I was using it to do…
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