HOW TO tackle Phone Addiction

Dan Go, a High Performance Coach to entrepreneurs points that an average person spends 4-5 hours a day on their phone. If they did this from the ages of 20 to 80 they would have spent a total of 10+ years of their lives on a screen.

It's not the phones themselves that cause addiction. Addiction largely comes from the apps themselves. They are designed to capture your attention by altering some serious chemistry in your brain.

He has the following suggestions to tackle phone addiction:

Cultivate awareness by tracking screentime. Most smartphones come with a built-in feature that is usually called "Screen Time", "Digital Wellbeing" or a similar variation.

Typical view on Vivo phones

Typical view on Samsung phones

Typical view on iPhone

Remove triggers. Only keep essential apps on your phone.

Make your phone ugly. Set your phone to greyscale/black & white.

Change the environment. The best way to reduce phone time is to remove it from your environment entirely.

Turn off all sounds, vibrations & notifications. 

Don't avoid. Replace the phone time with something (ie. reading, walking) more worthwhile than scrolling the internet.

The key is to control your behavior around it.

Activating App Timers & Data Saving features on the phone can also conserve time and money.