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Jul 3, 2022

Turn off “one more minute” on iOS Screen Time

Tapping the “one more minute” button happens automatically, without thinking about it: it’s in our muscle memory. Ultimatively, that means that Screen Time does not work at all. Unfortunately, it is not possible to remove or disable that button. Good news is, there’s a great app to fix that: one sec. Screen Time Alternative “one sec” Instead of allowing apps for a certain time limit, one sec‘s approach is to intervene each and every attempt to open social media: it forces you to take a deep breath which removes instant gratification from social media and thus, makes it less addictive.
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Jul 1, 2022

Healthy Alternatives to Social Media

Before we can find healthy alterntives to social media, let’s take a look at the unhealthy reasons why we open social media all the time. Most of our screen time is driven by unpleasent emotions which we want to escape: Boredom Stress Unpleasant work / homework Unpleasant social situations Anxiety Exhaustion Sadness Loneliness … The healthiest alternative to opening social media is: deal with that emotion, instead of opening social media.
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Jun 6, 2022

Block Apps with Focus Filters on iOS 16

With iOS 16, Apple has added a neat new feature called “Focus Filters”: allowing you to customize app-behavior depending on your current context, for example: automatically filtering out private emails and messages while at work or the other way around when you’re with family or friends Block Apps altogether during Focus On top of configuring internal app-behaviors during a Focus, you might want to block an app altogether during a Focus: that’s possible with one sec!