Turning backgrounds and lock screens in visual nudges
So far, my discussion about the mindful iPhone has focused on things you can do to your phone to make it less distracting, better able to distinguish between
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Skip to contentSo far, my discussion about the mindful iPhone has focused on things you can do to your phone to make it less distracting, better able to distinguish between
Another feature that turns your iPhone into a filter between you and the world is Do Not Disturb. When you activate Do Not Disturb (DND), incoming calls, texts,
One of my favorite illustrations of the physical nature of our relationship with smartphones, and of the ways that relationship can go awry, is the phenomenon of phantom
Tony Haile, the CEO of Chartbeat, has an important piece in Time magazine on the rise, and one hopes fall, of Web design and business efforts that focus
In the last several posts, we saw how to adjust ringtones, text tones, and email alert tones. The idea was twofold: to give your phone a more wide-ranging
A VIP list in Mail (the iPhones’ default email client) serves the same purpose as Favorites in phone and messaging: it lets you distinguish the people whose messages
Here’s how you set ringtones and text tones. The central panel from which you control ringtone, text tone, voice mail, calendar and reminder alerts, and most other sounds
Huffington Post's Kate Bratskier has a nice article about how Gchat-- or really instant messaging and the cult of instantaneous, real-time response-- erodes our ability to get things
Let’s get started with the main way your phone communicates with you: through its ringtones. Your smartphone’s ringtones are designed to alert you when you have call, a
I'll begin by showing you how to redesign the way your iPhone interacts with you. Going step-by-step through your iPhone's settings, we'll turn the iPhone from a device