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01-13-2018, 08:23 AM
Free advice: Turn your phone's damn battery percentage off
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Attention is a kind of love.*
Except when it's directed toward your iPhone and its unending series of notifications, at which point, if you're anything like me, is nothing more than a specific kind of anxiety unto itself: "Why am I staring at this thing so much, and why's it making me feel awful?"
To really fix this, you'd need a psychiatrist. But! One modest, simple change could help put a stop to this:*
Stop your phone from displaying the percentage of battery life it has left.
That's it.
That little number, affixed to the top-right of your screen if you've enabled it*, is a countdown clock of disaster and doom, kept minutes away from midnight only by the repeated jamming of a power cord into your device's greedy little maw. Seeing this percentage may invite obsessive charging; I find that stress starts creeping in around 64 percent.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/battery-percentage-on-iphone/)
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Attention is a kind of love.*
Except when it's directed toward your iPhone and its unending series of notifications, at which point, if you're anything like me, is nothing more than a specific kind of anxiety unto itself: "Why am I staring at this thing so much, and why's it making me feel awful?"
To really fix this, you'd need a psychiatrist. But! One modest, simple change could help put a stop to this:*
Stop your phone from displaying the percentage of battery life it has left.
That's it.
That little number, affixed to the top-right of your screen if you've enabled it*, is a countdown clock of disaster and doom, kept minutes away from midnight only by the repeated jamming of a power cord into your device's greedy little maw. Seeing this percentage may invite obsessive charging; I find that stress starts creeping in around 64 percent.* Read more... (http://mashable.com/2018/01/12/battery-percentage-on-iphone/)
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