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Five ways to beat your phone addiction (that actually work)

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Five ways to beat your phone addiction (that actually work) I pick up my phone roughly 80 times a day. I know this because I finally looked, and the number made me feel nigh on disgusted. I’m a technology journalist – phones are literally my job – but even I’ve reached the point where the reflexive scroll-check-scroll loop feels less like a habit and more like a pokie addiction I can’t shake. If y...
The strongest version of this narrative is its pragmatic acknowledgment that phone addiction is a systemic issue—exacerbated by platforms designed to exploit attention—while offering actionable, friction-based solutions rather than relying on moralizing or sheer willpower. It credits tools like the Brick and Locked for their physical constraints, which outperform software-only solutions by removing the "off-switch" from the user’s pocket. The inclusion of legal context (Meta/Google liability) an...