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I've considered doing the same. Also, before I ran my own company, I used to never take a phone or laptop with me on vacation.

Here are some things I've done as a half measure to make phones more tolerable:

- Turn off notifications for almost everything. I don't let any of the current crop of messengers send audible (or vibration) notifications. I only see them if I look at my phone. I don't allow notifications from any social app, or really anything else.

- Set up "favorites" on Android, and leave my phone to only allow those through a large chunk of the time. This means the only people that I'll hear ring if they call are basically: my wife, kid's daycare and server downtime notifications.

For me that gets it into the range of tollerability most of the time. It helps that I've always been more of a laptop / desktop person than phone user for browsing. I don't tend to pick up my phone super often. Friends do complain that I'm hard to reach though.