Comment by sgt
18 hours ago
30 minutes per day on your iPhone each day is insane. I spend 2.5 hrs according to my phone, and that's about 50% necessity and 50% nonsense like Twitter.
18 hours ago
30 minutes per day on your iPhone each day is insane. I spend 2.5 hrs according to my phone, and that's about 50% necessity and 50% nonsense like Twitter.
May I ask what you do that requires doing it on the phone?
If "necessity" means work-related: On my work-issued iPhone, I call and (briefly) text with people, triage some e-mail, have a look at calendars, take some in-situ photo/video, refer to a few notes, and so on. I don't have the screen time feature turned on but I guess I'm also below 30 minutes on that phone on most days. The exception being traditional voice calls which occasionally can go on for (much) longer than those 30 minutes, depending on what's happening. However, most of my more regular, scheduled conversations happen in real-life or in Zoom, Webex or other such platforms and not on a mobile phone.
The only work-related thing that I can think of OTOH which really required me to use a mobile device is hardware that requires an app to work (which is fortunately still rare).
Surprised that no one else has highlighted this. In 2025, this is an outlier worth talking about
It's especially amazing because it's so easy to fuck up. Read a few articles on the web. Scroll social media on a lunch break. Watch a video or two on YouTube. Listen to some music. Take care of some banking stuff. Suddenly you're at an hour or two and you've barely noticed. To keep it to 30mins you have to be so intentional.