How to Break Up with Your Phone
by Catherine Price
A thirty-day plan to change your relationship with your phone: understand how apps are designed to hook you, then a day-by-day program of tracking, deleting, rearranging, and trial separations. It is friendly, concrete and short, and it works for people who have failed with willpower alone.
Read it if…
you want a step-by-step program rather than another argument about screen time.
Skip it if…
you want the science or the cultural critique; this is a workbook.
Three things you will actually use
- Track before you change.
- Delete the apps you cannot moderate.
- Charge the phone outside the bedroom.
Do this first
Install a screen-time tracker today and do nothing else for three days except look at the number.
Our verdict
Practical and doable; a phone program that sticks.
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