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Beautility, My Ultimate iPhone Setup

A guide to balancing beauty and utility on your iPhone

Jason Stirman
Better Humans
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7 min readOct 19, 2017

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While I understand and appreciate the value of disconnecting from the digital world, so much of my life happens through the 5.5" screen on my iPhone that I’ve become addicted to it. Even as a tech nerd, I hate the constant buzzing and the incessant need to check my phone every 5 minutes, so I decided to change things up a bit and modify my phone to serve me, not the other way around.

To start, this is my home screen.

This is what I see every time I unlock my phone. There’s an abstract landscape in the background, but most of my home screen is, well… nothing, by design.

Gone are the pages of app icons littered with little red badges beckoning me to pay attention or take an action.

The two hard-to-see dots above the bottom app tray are the bare minimum because there’s a default page to the left containing useful widgets, more on that later, but I intentionally resized the wallpaper graphic to conceal the dots as best I could.

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Jason Stirman
Jason Stirman

Written by Jason Stirman

Product R&D at Facebook. Previously CEO of Lucid (http://getlucid.com). Ex Twitter and Medium.

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