Cutting down screen time

Your phone and social media apps can quietly eat up hours of your day. When your screen time goes down, you have more time for sleep, exercise and people.

You will need

• Your phone's screen time settings
• Other things to do

Steps

1. Measure where you are now

   Check your phone's screen time statistics to see where your time goes.

2. Set a goal

3. Turn off notifications

4. Set time limits

5. Move apps off the home screen

6. Create screen-free moments

7. Replace it with something else

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