Within twenty-four hours of wearing it, I forgot where my iPhone was for the first time.

Then came the Watch.Įverything changed when I got my Apple Watch. It appeared that many felt equally drawn to their smartphones but no one quite understood why. I researched mobile phone addiction (it sounded dramatic), I tried a 30-day-off-Facebook challenge (but still clocked considerable time on my phone). I wanted to know what it was that kept me hooked on my phone. On my worst day, I spent 7 hours and 41 minutes on my iPhone.Īs a UX designer and qualitative researcher, this was not only alarming but also fascinating. But the app Moment, which I installed on my phone to prove I didn’t have a problem, told me that my average total daily iPhone use added up over two hours. I just spent a lot of time using my phone. Eventually, there was one loud argument (slash intervention) by my best friend and my boyfriend in a Vietnamese restaurant. I was using my phone before bed, while waking up, while in the toilet, while cooking, during dinners, and during intimate conversations.

The day I started that job, I got my first iPhone. Twelve years later, I got hired as a full-time UX designer. Five years later, I was working part-time as a freelance visual designer (using my first Macbook Pro). Two years later, I landed my first design client through the family grapevine. A year later, I was building websites in HTML (using tables!). At that time, I was allotted one hour of ‘Internet Time’ on Friday afternoons. My first desktop computer introduced me to a new form of magic: having every color I could ever imagine in Photoshop 5 (I know!). My childhood and early adolescence were spent playing with friends, inventing and building my own games, and spending time outdoors. Before the year 2000, I didn’t have a computer at home. The last thing I needed was a mini-iPhone on my wrist. I had been struggling to break my iPhone dependency for months and nothing was working. Another device that would litter my mind with notifications, buzzing, and a constant need for attention, I thought. When I first saw the Watch announcement during last year’s Apple keynote, I nearly teared up.

How the Apple Watch Cured My iPhone Addiction

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