Some practical tricks to detoxify from excessive use of the mobile phone
smartphone addiction
Do you spend too much time attached to your smartphone between social notifications and scrolling through the latest news? You are probably not sick with tech addiction but you still need a little detox cure. So here are 6 good practices to adopt to reduce your mobile phone addiction !
Disabling social network notifications
Think about it: do you really need to be alerted every time someone comments on your post or likes a comment you are following? Probably not. Disable notifications and you will find some peace.
Hide the icons of the most ‘distracting’ apps
Facebook, Instagram, Twitter etc. How many times have you consulted them just because the icons were on the home page? Move the icons to the next or internal screens and you will decrease the time you spend on these apps.
Set a dissuading background image
The simplest tricks are sometimes the most effective: for example, you can set ‘Why are you using me?’ As your smartphone background image. Every time you pick up your mobile phone you will think about it for a moment more before accessing social media.
Hide your smartphone
There is no need to close your mobile phone in a drawer so as not to abuse it: when you work it is enough, for example, to put it behind your laptop in silent mode. The mere fact of not having it in sight will make you stop wanting to consult it.
Install a digital detox app
There are several, such as Checky (free for Android and iOS ), which collects data on mobile phone usage and tracks progress effectively. Or AppDetox , which allows you to set time limits or fixed times to be spent within the individual apps. Or Flipd (free for Android and iOS ), which blocks access to certain apps for certain periods of time.
Don’t keep your smartphone in the bedroom
Seeing your smartphone as the last thing before falling asleep doesn’t just hurt your eyes and sleep , it can make you nervous and delay the moment you fall asleep. When you go to sleep, leave your mobile phone (perhaps charging) in another room. Simple and effective.
