Setup App Limits in Screen Time for iPhone
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Are you looking for a way to manage your time on your iPhone better? With iOS’s Screen Time feature, App Limits can help you take control of your app usage.
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Who am I?
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I'm Brittany Smith, your nerdy ADHD coach, co-founder of the ADHD Guild, and a passionate believer in making stuff suck less! 🚀
My goal is simple: I want to help you do the things you've always wanted to be able to do but feel like you're not quite there yet. Whether it's improving time management, planning more efficiently, or just leading a better life for people with ADHD, I'm here to help you take that leap.
Read MorePodcast Appearance on Successfully Depressed, ADHD 101: Tips and Tricks for Getting Things Done
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On the podcast, Brittany and Kerry, who both have ADHD, discuss various related topics, including What ADHD is, Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria, Time Blindness, and Decision Fatigue. Tune in to learn how to get more done with less stress, and to gain insights into living with ADHD.
Read MoreAre your iPhone Widgets Distracting you? (And how to stop them!)
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If you’re finding yourself spending a bunch of time in an app when you didn’t mean to even open the app, sometimes it comes from a widget.
Read MoreTurn off (or on) Notifications for Shared Reminders Lists on iPhone
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If you’re in a shared Reminders list and were surprised to get a notification about someone adding pesto to the shared family Costco list, you aren’t alone! When I updated to the iOS16 beta back in June, these were *all* turned on for me by default!
Read MoreDisable the Enabler: Siri Suggestions on your iPhone might be distracting you-- here's how to turn them off!→
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Those little suggestions from Siri can lead down a tempting rabbit hole! These suggestions learn from our behavior, but they aren't formed from what we *wish* we were doing! They come out of what we *actually* do on our iPhones. Not only what we do when it's daytime and we might be working hard, but also from what we do at 2am when we should actually be sleeping…
Read MoreWhat's new in iPhone Notifications? (To Disturb or Not to Disturb - wait is that even a question??)
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What are the NEW changes to iPhone Notifications in iOS16? Brittany talks about why you should care about notifications, the impact they have on your brain every day.
Read MoreThe New Search Button on iPhone Home Screen (and how to turn it off)
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The search is great for searching for apps by name instead of hunting for them on your app screens. This can keep your Home Screen cleaner, if you don't need to keep as many apps visible.
Not everyone was excited to see search on the Home Screen, and there’s a setting to turn this search “button” off or on, and Brittany will show you how!
Read MoreHow to Customize your Dock Apps on iPhone
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Brittany will show you how to customize your iPhone Dock icons. You can even add a folder of apps, if you'd like!
Read MoreHow to Hide a Page of Apps of your iPhone
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You can have temporary or occasional screens of apps on your iPhone. Maybe up only want to use that page of apps when you're on vacation, or maybe you're just fed up with the clutter and distraction of having random apps everywhere. You can quickly hide those app screens!
Brittany will show you how to turn these app pages off! (Or back on, again!)
Read MoreMake a Custom Home Screen to Relax Before Bed (or any Activity-Specific app page on iPhone)
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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.
Read MoreNever Organize your iPhone Apps Again!→
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Brittany shows you how you can never organize your iPhone apps again-- let your iPhone organize your apps automatically!
Read MoreWhat is the App Library on iPhone?
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The App Library contains all your apps, where they are organized automatically by app categories. Watch an App library walk-through, how apps are automatically organized there, and setting options.
Read MoreUse Shortcuts for Romance for Less Netflix, more Chilling
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We're creatures of habit. This Shortcut is a home automation routine intended to set the mood for love and help adults enjoy each other's company, rather than getting stuck in a binge watching vortex every night. This Shortcut is for those times folks get in the habit of Netflix, but forget to “chill”. Or to set the mood for love with home automation. Because, what’s sexier than automation?
Read MorePodcast Appearance - Overcoming Distractions
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David recently had me on his podcast, Overcoming Distraction, which focuses on adults, and especially entrepreneurs with ADHD. A great fit, since entrepreneurs are one of the groups I love to work with!
Read MorePodcast Appearance - Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast
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Nikki and Pete were so gracious to have me on their show, Taking Control: The ADHD Podcast. It turns out that Pete is my long lost tech brother, and they were both an absolute joy to talk to!
We talked a lot about productivity and tech with ADHD (I know, total shocker, coming from me).
Read MoreADHD and Cognitive Science- Podcast appearance
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I was really excited to join a Focused podcast episode recently. On it, I even disclose which tech company successfully invades and disrupts my focus the most!
Read MoreJoin me... at the Virtual International Conference on ADHD 2020
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If you've ever been curious to hear from the top ADHD experts, this year the conference Is virtual. No plane tickets and no hotels makes the conference more accessible to more people than ever before. Plus, if you're a Gen X-er, Sinbad is the closing keynote!
I know my first year I was super confused about registration and coupon codes and such. So, I made a video about how to register for the conference!
Wait to update to iOS 14 (and other Apple Event thoughts)
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Before you update ASAP, consider waiting a few days.
Read MoreVirtual MacStock 2020: Cognitive Science Behind Shortcuts
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Here are the shortcuts I mentioned in my Virtual MacStock 2020 talk!
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