How to use your phone the right way. “Minimal mode” for your iPhone.

It’s been a couple of months now that I am using my phone the new way, a ‘Minimal Mode’ way. The way it makes me feel free from some of the “noise” it makes. I started to feel that the use of my iPhone more is under my control. I don’t get distracted by Instagram or Facebook when I don’t want to. You know how it happens, you aim to open dropbox app to look at the newly shared doc, but while swiping screens you notice a red circle in top-right corner of Instagram app, ok will just check it and wow, 30 mins are gone. Does that sound familiar? The main idea is to remove these distractions by getting rid of almost everything from your screen and get the raw feeling of stone age phone while still having all the powers. It looks something like this:

Yes, it looks empty. When I show it to friends and colleagues they either love or hate it, my wife hates it, she can’t find almost anything she...