7 Proven Phone Settings to Regain Over 9 Years of Productivity

This video will save you 10 or more entire years of your life from being wasted. And the reason I know this is

because we spend an ungodly amount of time on our phones. The average person spends 4 hours a day every single day

staring at this thing. And you might be thinking, "But Maxwell, you literally just said it was the average. 4 hours a

day is the average, the normal. That's not even that much, right?" But when you do the math and you add up the hours, it

becomes very apparent to how much 4 hours a day on your phone really is. 4 hours a day on your phone is the

equivalent to 1,460 hours a year. And I know that number probably doesn't mean anything to you.

But if I assume you live to 80 years old and I subtract the what 13 years you didn't have a phone, then you're going

to end up spending 11.5 years of your entire life spent on your phone. Bro, 11 and 1/2 years is a long ass time just to

be spent. The magnitude of that is insane. They say it takes 10,000 hours to master a

skill. So if you would have spent just 10% just 10% of that time in the future you spend it working on a skill

developing a skill you would have mastered that skill still you would have become really really good at something.

A few weeks ago I made some changes to my phone that have greatly impacted the amount of time I spend on my phone and

have greatly increased my productivity. And coming from someone who did spend the four 5 hours a day on my phone. I'm

telling you that these changes will help you spend less than an hour a day on your phone. And I know that probably

sounds crazy to most of you. And you might think that an hour a day on your phone is extremely low, but if you are

consistently intentional and mindful about the time you spend on your phone, you will be able to get there. You will

have saved and regained nine or more years of your life. And those are nine years that would have been spent

scrolling and doing things that didn't bring you any value. So, here are the seven changes that I made to my phone

that have helped me spend less than an hour a day on my phone every single day. The first step is a very simple one and

it's just to turn on silent mode. There's that little button on the side of the phone that you can turn on so

that you don't get any unnecessary dings or pop-up notifications, things that you don't need because if you are trying to

be focused or if you're doing something that requires focus or attention or presence like if you're with your family

or you're doing work or you're doing homework, you need to be focused. I almost never turn off the do not disturb

or silent mode on my phone. The only time that I do is if I need my parents to send me a message or they need to be

able to contact me. Other than that, I have it on almost all the time. It's a really great way to stop yourself from

getting randomly distracted when you're doing something you should have presence while doing that you should be focused

while doing. The second step is to delete all the apps that you spend the most time on. And I'm guessing these are

going to be the apps that are like Tik Tok and YouTube and Snapchat and mobile games. This step is the most important

one out of all the other steps. If you just do one, do this step. But it is the most difficult because the apps that you

spend the most time on obviously are going to be the ones you are most attached to. You can come up with as

many excuses and copes as you like. But the truth is this is the one thing that will reduce the amount of time you spend

on your phone the most. Now the third step that goes right along with the last step I just told you about is to delete

all of the apps from your homepage. I only have four apps on my home screen and I really only need two of them

because I just use them to message my family and my friends. Everything that you know might be problematic, delete it

from your homepage. It forces you to be a lot more intentional and mindful when you are on your phone and not to just

randomly and mindlessly open an app without thinking about it. The fourth step and all the steps after this are

going to be in the settings app. And the first setting you should change is your notifications. Turn the notifications

off for all of your apps. all of the ones that you don't use, all the ones that you really don't want notifications

on anyways, because a lot of the notifications that you get just notify you about useless, unimportant things.

It's information that you don't need. There are some apps that you need to keep on for health purposes or to stay

connected with your family or whatever. That's fine. But what I even did with my messages app and the other apps where I

received messages from people is I turned off all of the notifications that you get from your front screen. You can

do this by going to a specific app in notifications and turning off all the front page notifications that it gives

you. And if that app is something that you want to know how many notifications you have, you can just keep on the

badges. This will keep that red circle over the app that will show you how many unread messages you have. The fifth and

sixth step kind of go together and it's to turn off tap to wake and rise to wake. You can find raise tow through

display and brightness. And you can find tap to wake through accessibility and then going to touch. You've probably

noticed how your phone will instantly turn on if you pick it up. This makes it super easy to subconsciously open your

phone without thinking about it. So turning raise to wake off makes sure that your phone doesn't turn on when you

pick it up. Turning tap to wake off makes it so that you can't tap your phone to unlock it. Both of these two

ways of unlocking your phone are very mindless and unintentional. Once you turn these two settings off, you're

going to realize that you're going to be trying to tap your phone to open it, but it will only open if you click the side

button. This will make you think about going on your phone when you go on your phone, which will make you go on it

less. The seventh and final step is to turn on the grayscale color filter. You can find this by going to accessibility

and then going to display and text sizes. This last one might seem kind of weird, kind of extreme, but it makes

your phone just so much less interesting. When you have the grayscale filter on and there's no color, it's a

lot harder for you to stay on your phone for long periods of time. It's less interesting. And I know this setting in

particular will be very difficult for some people to keep on because we're so used to so much sensory stuff right in

your face. And so when you look at your phone and there's no color, it seems very, very boring, very, very

uninteresting. it's going to be annoying and weird and boring, which means you're going to spend less time on your phone.

So, those are the seven changes that I made to my phone that helped me not get lost in that void. And like I said in

the beginning of this video, this isn't going to be easy. This isn't going to be fast. It's going to take time for you to

reduce the amount of time you spend on your phone. And these settings are probably going to feel really weird and

really annoying at first, but just stick with them. And something else I want to mention is to get the Chrome extension

unhooked for YouTube. I've had it for probably a year now and it saved me hours and hours of time from being

wasted on YouTube. Something else that you can do if you have a Windows computer is turn off show desktop items.

You can do this by going to the front page of your computer and right clicking on it and then going to view and then

clicking off show desktop items. If you're one of the 20% that actually went and turned on all of these settings, you

should be proud of yourself. This is going to hugely increase your productivity and help you make so much

more progress in whatever you're working towards. And remember, never stop improving. You'll be grateful for it

later.