There are a few signs that my iPhone is nearing the end of its life, so I’ve been thinking about the Light Phone lately. Today I was discussing it with Rachel and she suggested turning my iPhone into something like a Light Phone to see how it goes. I took her advice.
Turns out, I didn’t end up with exactly a Light Phone equivalent, but it is drastically different than it was. No email, no YouTube, no browser, no micro.blog app. I did keep: Bandcamp, podcast app, craft, library apps for reading, and a variety of utilities that are actually helpful day-to-day but aren’t time wasters (reminders, Venmo, Walgreens).
The “time waster” apps are now only available to me on my iPad—and therefore slightly less accessible than a smartphone. My phone is now theoretically more a useful tool than an entertainment device. We’ll see how that works out this week.