Apple
fromAdvocate.com
2 days agoTim Cook wants you to touch grass. That's rich
Apple CEO Tim Cook advises reducing smartphone use and spending time in nature, despite building the system that creates phone addiction.
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Startup companies
fromFast Company
2 weeks agoHow one CEO's counter-cultural movement became Yondr
Yondr creates locked pouches that hold smartphones in designated phone-free zones, operating in 55+ countries and partnering with schools and major artists to combat smartphone addiction's negative effects.
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Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThe reason I stopped answering the phone immediately is not that I don't care about people. It's that I finally learned the difference between being available and being consumed. - Silicon Canals
Constant smartphone availability creates chronic stress and cognitive drain, reducing mental capacity and trapping users in perpetual readiness despite no actual emergencies.
Mental health
fromPsychology Today
11 months agoWhy Your Constant Phone Checking Is Digital Self-Harm
Constant distraction from phones harms mental health.
Excessive phone use is linked to anxiety and loneliness.
Reducing phone usage can exceed antidepressant effects.
Mindful scrolling can help combat compulsive behaviors.
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoThe moment I realized my phone wasn't distracting me from deep thinking but had actually restructured what deep thinking felt like, I understood why productivity advice never worked - Silicon Canals
A 2017 study from the University of Texas at Austin found that the mere presence of a smartphone on a desk (face down, silenced, untouched) reduced available cognitive capacity. Participants performed worse on tasks requiring sustained attention, even when they weren't using the device. The researchers called it "brain drain." Your mind allocates resources to not checking your phone, leaving less bandwidth for the task in front of you.
Digital life
Digital life
fromSilicon Canals
3 weeks agoWhat neuroscience reveals about people who check their phone within three seconds of feeling any discomfort and why it's quietly rewiring how they handle conflict in real life - Silicon Canals
Constant phone use to escape discomfort is rewiring the brain's ability to tolerate tension, ambiguity, and conflict by creating automatic escape loops that narrow the gap between feeling discomfort and reaching for devices.
fromwww.theguardian.com
1 month agoMy analogue month: would ditching my smartphone make me healthier, happier or more stressed?
Before I've poured my first morning coffee I've already watched the lives of strangers unfold on Instagram, checked the headlines, responded to texts, swiped through some matches on a dating app, and refreshed my emails, twice. I check Apple Maps for my quickest route to work. I've usually left it too late to get the bus, so I rent a Lime bike using the app.
Digital life
fromwww.theguardian.com
2 months agoDoomscrolling, people pleasing and low-fat foods? Life's too short! Nine writers on what they won't bother with this year
I tried the usual tricks: switching off notifications, deleting addictive apps, moving icons around, greyscale mode. None of it worked. Without notifications, I just checked more to see if something had happened. When I deleted apps, I used the browser instead. And when I deleted that I would eventually reinstall everything in a weak moment. (Which usually meant spending even more time on my phone as I had to log in everywhere again.)
Digital life
Digital life
fromBusiness Insider
5 months agoI'm Gen Z and don't use a smartphone or social media. It's made me more extroverted and led to deeper friendships.
Replacing a smartphone with pared-down phones reduced chronic distraction, improved focus, and restored peace by removing constant algorithmic attention and social-media-driven mood control.
fromPsychology Today
5 months agoBreaking Free From Doomscrolling: Name the Feeling
Back in 2011, Apple's iPhone ads plastered billboards with glossy images of people traveling, celebrating milestones. The message was seductive: This device is your ticket to belonging and intimacy. And in many ways, those ads weren't wrong. Smartphones made it easier to FaceTime across continents and capture memories-but they also planted a subtle belief: that closeness itself lived inside the device.
Digital life
fromwww.independent.co.uk
5 months agoHow your bedtime may be fuelling your social media addiction
People who are night owls have a much higher risk of developing an addiction to their smartphones compared to those who go to sleep earlier, a new study has found. Scientists have discovered that many who stay up in the evening, who show symptoms of loneliness or anxiety, are using smartphones to cope emotionally and are developing addictions to social media, worsening their mental health symptoms.
Mental health
Mental health
fromFast Company
5 months agoAre you a night owl? New Gen Z study ties staying up late to 'problematic' smartphone and social media use
Gen Z night owls show higher rates of problematic smartphone and social media use, driven primarily by loneliness and anxiety, with associated mental-health problems.
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