Want to unplug for the holidays? I bricked my iPhone to prevent doomscrolling - and it actually worked

Brick is one of the few new devices that positively changed my daily content consumption. It would be a great gift for the phone-addicted friend this holiday.

• Brick is a $59 device that blocks you from accessing your most-used apps
• It's on sale for $47 right now
• It helped me develop a better relationship to my phone
• Its positive reinforcements work better than competitors or Screen Time limits.

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As every aspect of our working and social life is digitized, screen addiction has become less an exception to our way of living and more a widely accepted characteristic of it. I see this most commonly when I ask my friends, family, and coworkers how many hours a day they spend on their phones. The answers vary from three to eight hours. 

I average around four hours of my day ...