How to stop doomscrolling | TechCrunch

The world is sometimes bad, but if you can’t stop watching the 6-inch screen of a smartphone, which follows space and time, is worse. We mocking you with a compact, light structure that is small enough to slide your pocket and draw everywhere – the call of his siren is so strong that we cannot sleep without our phone in Nightodys.

Like the weather the horrors around usIf you did not get more than a dozens of times a day, it is possible to be quiet and more careful and balanced, more calmer and more careful. It is mixed with our brains To consent to our day, the most extreme, badge-beiting tiktogs, just to switch to x or Bluesky and look at the news headlines.

As any bad habit, it is difficult to tear up doomsday. But not hopeless – or at least I hope this is not. So how do you stop how Toomprollers? It’s not easy, but at least we have some ideas about how you can build yourself to succeed.

Understand that this is not your fault

You are not the problem first. The problem is this so deep combination with technological companies seeking to capture as much time as possible. If I use my Apple clock to watch a workout, I finish the text messages when trying to catch my breath after a steep hill. If I go to Spotify to listen to a special album, I usually see recommendations for podcasts and audiobooks. Not surprisingly, our phones make us feel crazy.

I do not believe in the MARKERBERBERG’s sitting in Lair – I probably wish him in his “metaverse” – ways to worsen my life. However, the nature of consumer technology companies: Our attention is putting them up and how many attention we pay attention to them, investors and stock prices, etc. By knowing how these companies work, it is still difficult to break our bad habits. I still open my Instagram account to see what my friend sends, I will open my mind after just following the pasta with them.

Set up screen time restrictions and take them seriously

After presenting the screen time of the screen time in Apple iPhones, I chose to deliberately have not transformed it – I was afraid of what I could learn about myself. But this fear himself told me that I have a problem. Knowledge is power, and if we know how many applications are breastfeeding, we can curb them how much time we spend.

Here’s how to set screen time limitations for specific applications in iOS:

• Open the settings app.
• Scroll down to the screen time marked by an hourly glass icon.
• Here’s how you can see your daily average screen time and let yourself go to yourselves to yourselves.
• Under the limit, there are a few different ways you can reduce your screen time: Downtime and application restrictions.
  • Time of lag Sets a schedule when you can use certain applications. Maybe you usually have time for the hours you sleep, or you create a probably more customizable day schedule. If you see yourself on Instagram during the classroom, perhaps it’s a time to determine this limit.
    • If you choose to restrict the restriction of what applications during Downtime, you determine what applications you want Always allowwhich is also accessible under the menu of use. If you have friends and family abroad, for example, you probably want to be sure you can always access WhatsApp. Or, if you are like me and sometimes you need audiobooks to fall asleep, maybe you will permit unlimited Libic entrance.
  • Application limit You can determine how much time you want to spend on certain applications per day. You can set individual restrictions for special applications or perhaps a category of a category (Facebook, Instagram, Bluesky, Tiktok, X etc.) and you put a total time limit for these applications.

Apple’s built-in screen time tools are effective, but they are a little easier; If you are watching a big striker and you get a pop-up to have your time suddenly, hit a button to give yourself another 15 minutes … and then do the same after another 15 minutes later.

Some people prefer to use third-party applications to reduce the screen times that can solve the potential losses of the existing function of the existing function.

Some applications designed to limit your screen time:

• ViolinIt is available on iOS and Android, allows you to create visible pop-ups before opening certain applications. So before opening Instagram, for example, “Is this important?” You can also suggest that your application is deep breathing before opening the application and record your success when it succeeds. My friend is currently working with a 144-day strip, which refuses to sacrifice for a quick splash of a non-unemployed dopamine.
• OpaliOS is available on Android and the Internet, in a more precise way, in the workplace or at school, focus on increasing productivity. The application is more customizable on the screen in the screen than Apple’s built-in features. Not only in time, but also how often an application is opened (for example, only three times a day you want to apply Instagram application).
• TuneAvailable in iOS, not only how much time you spend on your phone, but also focuses on the quality of that period. Although some users are applied until the application of the application, they love the “monk mode” that can be activated to prevent any application restrictions on the application. But if you are really hard with your limits, you can unlock “cheat days”.

We rolled some physical devices This can help you stop looking at the screens.

So you have opened tiktok and the time limitations to the screen have rejected you access to you, but you do not know what to do now. Maybe you stand straight into the coffee shop and you need a distraction. Convenient, in a world in the ideal, we could only be bored without burning, but this is not an ideal world.

There is something else not involved in social media on your phone:

• Read the book. No, really. In applications such as ibooks and BurnInstead of switching to the page, instead of reading the page, swipe to read books. You literally slide in the true sense, but instead, maybe you will learn something.
  • Don’t want to buy a book? You don’t need it! Denomination Contact your library card to access e-books and audios from your phone.
  • Don’t know what to read? I am very sorry, but you can have to understand this in the booktop.
• Play the game. Of course, the games can also create addictive, but at least the games will not not report to explode in a new, unexpected way the world. Each application is implementing every other application, but in a bite-sized position, once in a day, this is a good thing.
  • This New York Times Games The app will allow you to play fast games like Wordle, Strands and Mini crosswords, even if you are not a subscriber. But the gray lady’s games are so successful that other applications receive feed.
  • Hear me. This Games Linkedin actually really fun. Of course, your old, your bad boss is afraid of jumping from a post, but especially the tango is worth risk.