How To Turn Your Smart Phone Into A Dumb Phone
And increase your productivity and focus
You might be struggling to get your phone usage down and your focus and productivity up. With all the shiny apps and games on your phone, it is quite difficult to do it. However, you can do this with a dumb phone without even buying a brand new dumb phone.
Just read the next few paragraphs and turn your smartphone into a dumbphone.
1. Delete Your Browser
Delete your browser so you can resist the urge to explore the internet at all. We tend to Google anything that pops into our minds. But not any longer when don’t have Google.
If you cannot uninstall built-in browsers like Chrome and Safari, at least you can disable them from the settings menu.
2. Remove Unnecessary Apps
First of all, delete social media apps. No more status posting. Uninstall Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, and any other social media app you have installed.
Since you have a dumb phone now so, you don’t want any unnecessary apps video/photo editors, etc. Similarly, delete all the games.
Unnecessary apps not only occupy your phone storage but also decrease its processing power.
3. Turn Off Mobile Data And Wi-Fi
While turning off data is enough. You can go one step further and not have a data subscription at all.
Similarly, turn off your wi-fi. If nobody else uses your home wi-fi, make sure to turn off the router entirely.
4. Turn Off All Notification (Except for text and calls)
Turn off all the notifications from the apps or services you no longer use.
Keep some basic notifications on so you can receive call or text notifications from your work or family.
5. Keep Your Communication Open
You don’t want to use social media as a means of communication in your dumb phone but make sure you can make or receive calls and text because these are two basic functions that a dumb phone specifically does.
So, keep the text messaging app on your phone.
6. Install a minimalist launcher
There are many minimalist launchers available on both Play Store and App Store.
These launchers turn your phone’s home screen into a simple screen that shows basic things like date and time, calls, messages, etc.
7. Keep Some Offline Entertainment
It is not a bad idea to use your smartphone for a little entertainment while still in ‘dumb mode’.
Keeping some music and funny videos as offline entertainment. You may keep a simple game or two.
