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Yesterday I decided to streamline and minimalize my iPhone, getting closer to a Light Phone approach. This included:
- Eliminating scrolling apps, such as Instagram, Facebook, and Google News.
- Eliminating color and subtle animations.
- Eliminating pop-ups and notifications.
I even took weather and tides off.
Technically, I did the menu using the free (wonderful if not quite perfect) app called Smile App Launcher. I customized the text and used it as a widget on my home screen. Then I set my iPhone to dark mode, with large icons set to clear, and a black background. This is just an experiment, so I did this as a focus mode, which gives me the ability to go back and forth between my Light Phone aesthetic and normal iPhone effortlessly. In the short time I have run this experiment, I have found that I want this Light Phone focus to be the default.
Is this "The Thing Before Preppy"? Is this "Salt Water New England-y"? I will leave that to others to mull. But it is part of a welcome trend to balance the conveniences and necessities of technology (such as, for me, this blog) with the realization of not letting it go to far.
I use a smartphone as seldom as possible. Unfortunately it apparently is no longer possible to get a truly workable small phone like the first couple I had, both by Nokia. They were about 3.5 inches long, an inch and a half wide, and less than an inch thick.
ReplyDeleteI.did a similar thing wirh my Samsung phone some time ago
ReplyDeleteI leave my iPhone on the kitchen counter most of the time, often long enough to lose its charge completely. All of my away messages, including VM, say this phone is not monitored, and if you really need to reach me, call my landline. If I don't answer, leave a message. My poor iPad gets used for things like this, a couple of daily NYT games, and reading texts and emails. Even with my limited use of these devices, I feel I could let them go. A phone, books, music, cooking, friends, gardening...life is full enough without connectivity devices.
ReplyDeleteHeh ... I use a Flippy. Problem solved ... collars up !!!
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