{"id":17275,"date":"2025-01-14T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/you-dont-need-a-smartphone-a-practical-personal-guide-to-downgrading-your-device\/"},"modified":"2025-01-14T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2025-01-14T13:37:49","slug":"you-dont-need-a-smartphone-a-practical-personal-guide-to-downgrading-your-device","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/you-dont-need-a-smartphone-a-practical-personal-guide-to-downgrading-your-device\/","title":{"rendered":"You don\u2019t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Want to switch to a dumbphone but worry about things like two-factor authentication or map apps? These are my best tips and workarounds<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2023\/dec\/14\/sign-up-to-reclaim-your-brain-our-free-email-to-help-you-scroll-less-and-live-more\">Sign up to Reclaim your brain, our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I have spent years of my life online. I have nearly crashed my car because I was composing a message. I have had panic attacks over losing my data connection. I have scrolled for hours, and then failed to recall anything I saw during those hours. I have chosen a screen over a conversation, a view, a book, a good night\u2019s sleep, a moment of quiet reflection.<\/p>\n<p>In other words, I have owned a smartphone.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2025\/jan\/14\/switching-smartphone-for-dumbphone-guide\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/1e3fce1290a52b3231b195c73fded9e75b37ec71\/213_103_1405_844\/master\/1405.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=1c8e23ac26143f96ea0d578d090e3142\" title=\"You don\u2019t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device\" \/>Want to switch to a dumbphone but worry about things like two-factor authentication or map apps? These are my best tips and workarounds<br \/>\nSign up to Reclaim your brain, our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone<br \/>\nI have spent years of my life online. I have nearly crashed my car because I was composing a message. I have had panic attacks over losing my data connection. I have scrolled for hours, and then failed to recall anything I saw during those hours. I have chosen a screen over a conversation, a view, a book, a good night\u2019s sleep, a moment of quiet reflection.<br \/>\nIn other words, I have owned a smartphone. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Want to switch to a dumbphone but worry about things like two-factor authentication or map apps? These are my best tips and workarounds Sign up to Reclaim your brain, our free coaching newsletter to help you spend less time on your phone I have spent years of my life online. I have nearly crashed my &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/14\/you-dont-need-a-smartphone-a-practical-personal-guide-to-downgrading-your-device\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">You don\u2019t need a smartphone: a practical, personal guide to downgrading your device<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":17276,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}