[kfrane]

I've found a very interesting result in one of the papers[1] they linked in the article. The group of people with the highest phone dependence have the highest available cognitive capacity score when they leave their phone in another room (see Figure 3. Experiment 2).

Somewhat absurdly, this would suggest that the best strategy would be to get hooked on notifications and then consciously leaving your phone in another room when you need to work/focus.

[1] https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/bitstream/handle/2152/64...