Cross-Platform Time Manipulation
Friday, December 13, 2024
features like Screen Time will never help you achieve whatever vague conception of reduced usage you may have. If you haven't yet quantified the figures you'll find within it in mental estimates, you aren't really concerned at all and if you have, Screen Time will only confirm them. Using reminder notifications to optimize your appflow makes no attempt at all to actually escape the mentality of the behavior you seek to lessen from yourself. Another app is still another app; a notification reminding you to stop using an app does nothing but add still more stimuli. If you want to stop using the phone so much, *stop* using the fucking phone. If you are truly concerned about how your handset companion has changed your life, turn it off for a week/month/quarter – however long you possibly can. By that, I mean no more or less than what you can manage without getting fired/dumped/expelled/etc. If you have truly reached this point, anything less is probably worth it. There is simply no other way to get a clear picture of how it's changed you.
Hopefully the all-I-can-do-is-milestone-minutea-of-my-fucking-life phase will be over soon so that I can get back to (genuinely wise??) thoughts like this.
Please note: as of this time, we cannot confirm with reasonable certainty that Time Manipulation will be releasing with the iOS 18.3 public build.