I spent a year living and working without a phone, and it radically improved my life. Here are 6 things I learned.

I wanted to know what would happen if I suddenly gave up my smartphone – whether I’d feel better or worse, more productive or less capable of doing my job. Like so many others, I’d treated my phone as a crutch – there to entertain me when I was bored, or remind me of a fact or event that I’d forgotten. I’d gotten so dependent on it that I wasn’t sure who I was without it. But I wanted to find out.

https://www.insider.com/living-without-iphone-year-experiment-2022-10