How not to spend half of my life on my screens – Blog of Jake

According to the Screen Time feature, I have spent an average of 2-3 hours on my iPhone and 4-5 hours on my iPad every day during the month of May. In total, that is 6-8 hours of screen time every day between those two devices. I have not been using my computer much except for writing so I am not concerned with including that Screen Time for now. What I am concerned about is that I am spending almost or exactly half of my waking hours (16) on these stupid smart devices. On my deathbed, I cannot imagine looking back and being glad that I spent almost half of my twenties on an iSomething screen. The very fact that such a time suck is possible is why I consider the iPhone and iPad to be so addictive. It is why I set my iPhone to greyscale. I often notice when I am feeling unusually down or stressed for no reason that it is correlated with my screen time (iPhone worse than iPad worse than computer). Last night I decided it is time to make a change. I took some time to write down most of wh

According to the Screen Time feature, I have spent an average of 2-3 hours on my iPhone and 4-5 hours on my iPad every day during the month of May. In total, that is 6-8 hours of screen time every day between those two devices. I have not been using my computer much except for writing so I am not concerned with including that Screen Time for now. What I am concerned about is that I am spending almost or exactly half of my waking hours (16) on these stupid smart devices. On my deathbed, I cannot imagine looking back and being glad that I spent almost half of my twenties on an iSomething screen.