Is it possible to go back to flip phone?

In a radical change, the writer ditched her iPhone 15 for a flip phone, and survived. PHOTO ILLUSTRATION: UNSPLASH
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My biggest regret of 2023 was my relationship with my smartphone, or my “tech appendage” as I’ve named it in my iPhone settings. My Apple Screen Time reports regularly clocked in at more than five hours a day.

So I made a radical change – I ditched my iPhone 15 for a flip phone for a month. It makes phone calls and texts and that was about it. It may seem strange to go retro in the age of ChatGPT, but it seemed a perfect time to correct course with the existing tech that already felt out of my control.

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