Evening time is hard. You want to relax before bedtime, but it's easy to slip into rabbit holes. How can we access apps that help us relax, without the ones that lead to doom scrolling all night long??
You can set up your iPhone to see the right apps, at the right time, by making an activity-specific app Home Screen page. That way you can focus on just the apps for what you're doing right now.
This is partly possible because now you can re-use app icons on many home pages, without compromising other home screens: https://youtu.be/g7sMdt_Aw5A
Brittany will show you how, by making a wind-down Home Screen to help get settled for sleep, but before you're ready to crawl into bed. This is a Home Screen specifically for when I want to unwind, but not send me down rabbit holes.
Your wind down screen can have whatever you like! But, to give you ideas, my wind down home screen has:
- Pokémon Go
- Texts
- Routine shortcuts widget
- My routines calendar
- Music
- Books
- Audible
- Tally
- Battery widget
You can also use Focus modes to choose which app pages you can see in different focus modes. For example, a Wind Down Focus Mode that only shows me this screen at bedtime.
Examples of pages you might only want to see sometimes:
- Work apps
- Routines apps
- Relaxing apps
- Bedtime apps
- Wind Down apps
Other, related videos:
- What's the App Library? https://youtu.be/TXc_b6ZYFfA
- Never organize your apps again https://youtu.be/eUfS_ySdtD0
- Make Duplicate icons of the same App on iPhone https://youtu.be/g7sMdt_Aw5A
The original Organize your apps video: https://youtu.be/8U2EU9lAutE
For more on technology and health (and ADHD), check out my course: "Apps of Steel: Using Technology Just for the Health of It."