This iOS 27 Shortcut Stopped My Mindless Scrolling

It obtained to the purpose the place I couldn’t bear in mind why I picked up my telephone. I compulsively opened Threads and TikTok in any respect hours of the day and obtained sucked into the limitless scroll — however I discovered a solution to retrain my mind this week, due to a brand new iOS 27 function. 

I’m beta testing the upcoming working system and its refreshed Shortcuts app, which helps you to program your iPhone to do issues utilizing atypical language. It’s known as Describe a Shortcut. I converse my needs into the app, and it obeys.

So on this week’s One More Thing video, which you’ll be able to watch embedded above, I discovered what occurs while you inform Shortcuts to not allow you to open Instagram (or Threads, or TikTok) throughout work hours.

This might be not what Apple builders had in thoughts for Shortcuts. After all, the Apple Screen Time app already has loads of methods to assist curb a social media dependancy. But reprograming my telephone to show it right into a brick is extra enjoyable than paying for one more firm to “Brick” my telephone. (Yes, folks do that.)

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Bridget Carey

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Bridget Carey is an award-winning shopper know-how reporter and host of the weekly Apple present, “One More Thing.”

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