| I bought a smartphone pretty late, only 5-6 years ago. Mainly I wanted an easier way to subscribe to podcasts (I'd been using an MP3 player for this for 10 years, and just using a feature phone for calls). I never actually got hooked on social media stuff or phone games. I'm not on any social media except Letterboxd, and that app is easy not to use because it's pretty terrible. The only game I've ever played on my phone is 80 Days. I mention this so that you can decide whether I am the exact wrong person to give you advice or not. Anyway, here's what I use: * Banking and investment apps * Media apps (Pocket Casts, Audible, Spotify) * My local library's app (KCLS represent) * Nature / hiking apps (PeakFinder, AllTrails, iNaturalist, TrailRouter) * Notion as a todo list / note taking app * Librarything * Lyft / Doordash * Venmo * Redfin at the moment, because I'm buying a house. That's all the non 1st-party apps I have. I just don't download anything else. I think that instead of browsing social media, my equivalent focus-drain is probably listening to podcasts and audiobooks. If you think that's healthier, switch to that. It may be, or I may be fooling myself. If you have time to kill and want to use an app, how about Duolingo? |