Take an adventure in the secret world inside your smartphone to Textopolis, a bustling city where all your favorite emojis live. In this world, each emoji has only. Our Secret Universe The Hidden Life Of The Cell Download App' title='Our Secret Universe The Hidden Life Of The Cell Download App' />Ten Tricks for Checking Your Phone Less. The most frustrating thing about a phone addiction is that unlike actual substance abuse, the solution is not to stop using it completely. Instead, we have to find ways to use this technology responsibly, fighting apps overtly designed to steal our time. Marketer Josh Spector wrote about ten habits that help him control his phone use. Acquiring these habits is hard, so were adding some tricks and apps that will enforce your self control. 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Mode app. If Google Assistant isnt enough, download Drivemode for Android for a no look interface that automatically launches when you start driving. Android Previously mentioned hands free driving app Drivemode has a lot of great features, but itRead more Read. Move your phone elsewhere when you watch TV or read. When youre out and about, it makes sense to keep your phone in your pocket. But when you get home, take it out. Leave it to charge, and try treating it like a home phone. The less often you check your phone for just one thing, the less often you get sucked into an hour of Twitter. When you get up and check your phone, try leaving it plugged in, andor standing right over the outlet. Thatll make it harder to accidentally pocket it and break the habit. Turn off notifications. Specifically, turn off all notifications that dont require immediate action. You can probably leave calls and texts on, but turn off everything from Twitter, Facebook, and every app with a follow function. Turn off your email notifications too. Its not as if you dont check your email every 2. If you need, establish a calltext if its an emergency policy. When you download a new app, disable notifications or just never enable them. Let the app earn your attention. If some notifications kind of matter, make them silent and hide them from your lock screen. They still might suck you in once you open your phone, but at least they wont trigger a new browsing session. According to local news reports, an area man stopped checking Twitter for a few minutes yesterdayRead more Read. Choose an end point for your browsing session. Put your clock app on your home screen. When you open your phone, before anything else, set a timer for how long you want to spend on your phone. Android offers some more automatic solutions. Use Quality. Time to limit the time you spend on specific apps. Try turning your phone offlike, really offwhen youre done using it. For most of us, this will prove a little too drastic. But try it just for a day and see what you gain. Everyones phone needs are different, so its normal to try a few tricks that dont work out. Thats not failure, its just experimentation. When people see my i. Phone theyre like, My God, man, do you have some kind of crazy phone virusRead more Read. Stop checking your phone when in line. For most of us, this is exactly what mobile phones are for. But if you really want to lean into the boredom thats essential for creativity and reflection, then stop checking your phone just because youre not doing anything for a minute. Practically, this might mean keeping your phone in a different pocket, so you cant pull it out quite so unconsciously. Get a wallpaper that reminds you to put down your phone. Add a fresh one weekly. Practice stopping and looking around you. Most of usno matter how many time saving techniques we employdont have enough time to waste. But Read more Read. Mac Product Key Finder Serial on this page. Dont use your phone in bed. Establish a no phone time in the morning and evening. To enforce itor to only block the less essential functionsuse Freedom i. OS or Offtime i. OSAndroid to turn off all access to domains like Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram. That way you can pick up your phone to check for actually important updates, while shielding yourself from drifting on over to your social feeds. This may sound too stringent if your job occasionally involves social media. But even as a blogger, Ive kept Freedom on, blocking Twitter between 9 3. PM and 7 3. 0 AM. If I ever actually need to tweet at night, I could always go to my computer. At least five times a week I check my phone in bed, realize Twitter is blocked, and go back to my book. WindowsMacAndroidi. OS What good is blocking distractions on your computer if you can pick upRead more Read. Break the checking cycle. Once youve checked your email, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and so on, its tempting to start the loop all over again. Instead check just one app at a time. Train yourself to put your phone down after your intended action. Its pretty hard to break the whats next habit, so do anything you can to make switching apps less automatic. Close apps as soon as you use them, so youd have to boot them up again. And hide all your distracting apps off of the home screen, putting them in folders so you have to dig for them or type their names to open. Try deleting one social app at a time, for just a day or a week, to see whether you really need it. If you end up keeping one distracting app off your phone, itll be worth it. You pick up your phone, glance at Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, then peek in on your email. By theRead more Read. Dont expect a quick fix. Its difficult to find the right balance. Most of us really appreciate the advantages of a smart phone, and most of us also use it more than we want to. Most of these tricks only work as long as youre paying attention to them, and apps keep finding new ways to invade your space, so you need to keep finding fresh ways to trick your brain out of bad behavior. As Spector points out, the answer isnt a one time digital detox. Its learning to live with, and earn the privilege of as contributor Jake Knapp put it infinity in your pocket. When you realize how big that obstacle is, it makes sense that theres no quick fixjust regular habits, trial and error, and ups and downs.