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iPhone X Diary: I’ve gone on an app and notifications diet, and my iPhone is now an oasis of calm

<div class="feat-image">(https://9to5mac.files.wordpress.com/2018/04/diet-2.jpg?quality=82&strip=all&w=1500)</div><p>There’s been a lot of chatter lately about smartphone addiction, digital detoxing and the like. An <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/18/17243712/iphone-android-notifications-processor" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interesting piece[/url] by Dieter Bohn over at The Verge got me thinking about whether I really need all those notifications.</p>
<p>I decided initially to try a ‘notifications diet’ – dramatically cutting back on the number of apps allowed to send me notifications. But as I started going through the list in Settings, I realized I also had apps I never use. I opted to extend the plan to an ‘app diet’ too …</p>
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