The 5 Step Guide to Breaking Your Phone Addiction, For Good

Identify the apps with which you have a toxic relationship and emphasize all apps with which you have a healty one.

The apps that are toxic for people varies from person to person.

If these things are true, the app is probably toxic:

• You feel a compulsion to use it.
• You feel worse after using it than if you hadn’t.
• You regret using it.
• It makes your life worse instead of better.
• It gives you little to no benefit.

If there are any apps you don't use at all, delete them. 

Maybe you had plans to use the app in the future, or perhaps you used to use them, but now you don’t. Whatever the reason, if you don’t use it, it’s got to go.

A big part of why you waste so much time on Instagram is because Instagram is accessible.

Never put an app you don’t want to use on the home screen. Any apps on the home screen are going to get used more than apps on any other page.

Instead of deleting apps, hide the ones you don't want to use in groups. ( Groups can be: Social, School, Education, entertainment etc.)

Also, place the apps you want to use in a visible position like your home screen.

Almost all the apps we use every day have a menu in them where you can customize the kinds of notifications you get.

That way, you only see what you want to see, not what the companies want you to see.

Decide which notifications you want to get and the ones you don't want to get.

Instead of using toxic apps like social media, use healthy ones. Here are some examples:

• Duolingo: A game that teaches you languages. 
• Medito: A meditation app.
• Medium and Pocket: Articles on various topics.