The Best Apps to Stop Doomscrolling on iPhone
These apps work in three fundamentally different ways, and picking the wrong category is why most people give up. Here's how to tell which one you need.
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Using social media on purpose.
One guide per problem: how to remove the feed, the Reels, or the Shorts from a site you otherwise want to keep, including the methods that have nothing to do with us.
Phone and Doomscrolling Statistics Worth Knowing
Every figure here is linked to its source, including the surprising one: a third of phone use happens with no clear purpose at all. Plus pickups, notifications, sleep, and how to check your own numbers.
Read the guideHow to Block TikTok on iPhone
Blocking the TikTok app is the easy half. The half people forget is that tiktok.com still opens in Safari.
Read the guideHow to Quit Instagram Without Losing Your DMs
The reason people reinstall Instagram within two weeks is almost never the feed. It's the messages. Here's how to keep them.
Read the guideScreen Time App Limits Not Working? Here's Why
Sometimes it's a bug. More often Screen Time is working exactly as designed and the design is the problem. Both are fixable.
Read the guideHow to Turn Off YouTube Recommendations
The video you meant to watch takes twelve minutes. The three the sidebar picked take ninety. Here's how to turn the recommendations off.
Read the guideHow to Hide the Instagram Explore Page
Explore is pure recommendation with nothing you chose. Here's how to get rid of it, and why resetting it is worth doing either way.
Read the guideHow to Block Apps on iPhone
Screen Time can block any app on your iPhone for free. It can also be dismissed in two taps, which is the whole problem.
Read the guideHow to Use Instagram Just for Messages
For a lot of people Instagram is a messaging app that happens to have a feed bolted on. Here's how to keep the messages and lose the rest.
Read the guideHow to Use LinkedIn Without the Feed
Most people open LinkedIn for a message, a job, or someone's profile, and get a feed instead. Here's how to remove it and keep the rest.
Read the guideHow to Use Reddit Without the Home Feed
Reddit is two products: a searchable archive of people solving your exact problem, and an infinite front page. Here's how to keep the first and close the second.
Read the guideHow to Make X Show Only Your Following Feed
You pick Following. You close X. You open it again and you're back in For You. Here's how to make the Following feed stick on an iPhone.
Read the guideHow to Stop Doomscrolling (Without Quitting Everything)
Most advice on this tells you to try harder. That's the least useful thing you can do. Here's what changes the behavior instead.
Read the guideHow to Block YouTube Shorts on iPhone
YouTube's own "hide" option expires after 30 days and never touches the Shorts tab. Four ways to get YouTube without Shorts on an iPhone, compared.
Read the guideHow to Use Instagram Without Reels on iPhone
Instagram gives you no switch to turn Reels off. These are the five approaches that actually work on an iPhone, compared honestly, including what each one costs you.
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