The Brick differs from traditional screentime apps by providing a physical barrier between you and your phone.
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As a wellness writer, I’ve run into a content conundrum: My job requires me to be online to stay up to date on current events and trends, but I also want to spend less time on my phone to protect my mental health. Despite doing this job for 12 years, I still haven’t found a viable solution.
Perhaps the over 1 billion people who spent at least three hours daily scrolling social media in 2020 haven’t either, especially considering that the pandemic years supercharged our scrolling and created poor digital hygiene habits that many of us haven’t recovered from.
Though iPhone and in-app screentime limits tend not to work for me — I find they’re easy to disable with just a few taps — I was eager to know more about the palm-sized device called the Brick
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