10 Phone Settings You Should Change Today
Ten minutes in your settings that make your phone quieter, faster, and easier on your battery and your brain.
Reclaim your attention
Turn off notifications for every app that isn't a person trying to reach you. Social feeds, shopping apps and games do not deserve interrupts; keep calls, messages, and calendar. On both Android and iOS this lives under Settings → Notifications, and the bulk purge takes ten minutes once and lasts years.
Next, move distracting apps off the home screen. Search is faster than hunting anyway. A home screen with only tools on it changes how often you open feeds — you can't doomscroll an app you forgot is installed.
Finally, set a grayscale or bedtime mode to switch on automatically at night. A colorless screen at 11 p.m. is astonishingly boring, which is exactly the point.
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