Guides · 2 min
How Long Does It Take to Break a Phone Addiction?
Longer than 21 days. The best-known habit study found new daily habits took 66 days on average to feel automatic, with a range from 18 to an estima...
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Resources
What screens are doing to your brain.
The research on attention, sleep and mood, in plain language — plus honest comparisons of the tools that claim to help.
Guides · 2 min
Guides · 2 min
How Much Screen Time Is Too Much for an Adult?
There's no official daily screen-time limit for adults. Recreational scrolling is what matters, not work screens. In a 2022 randomized trial, adult...
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Guides · 2 min
How Do I Turn My iPhone Into a Dumb Phone?
You can't make an iPhone dumb, but you can make it act dumb. Build a Focus that shows one Home Screen with calls, texts, maps and camera, silence e...
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Guides · 2 min
Is Using Your Phone Before Bed Bad for Sleep?
Yes. A JAMA Pediatrics study published October 19, 2026 tracked 425 teens across about 7,600 nights: when they used their phone after 10 p.m. more ...
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Guides · 2 min
How Do I Block Apps on My iPhone So I Can't Unblock Them?
You need a lock you don't hold the key to. Either have someone else set your Screen Time passcode and turn on Block at End of Limit, or use a physi...
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Guides · 2 min
How Do I Make My iPhone Less Addictive?
Strip out the parts built to pull you back. Turn off every notification that isn't a person, switch the screen to grayscale, move social apps off y...
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Guides · 1 min
How Do I Stop Checking My Phone at Work?
To stop checking your phone at work, get it out of sight and add a step between you and the apps. Put it in a bag or drawer, not face-down on the d...
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Guides · 1 min
How Does an NFC App Blocker Work?
An NFC app blocker pairs a small physical tag, like a card or puck, with an app on your phone. You pick the apps to block, then tap the tag to your...
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Gifts · 2 min
What Is the Best Gift for Someone Addicted to Their Phone?
The best gift for someone addicted to their phone is one that puts distance between them and the feed without a lecture attached. A physical app bl...
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Corporate gifting · 4 min
The Best Corporate Gifts for the 2026 Holidays (That Won't End Up in a Drawer)
The best corporate gifts this season get used every week, don't need a logo to be remembered, and give people some of their time back. Our list for...
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Mental health · 2 min
What Doomscrolling Does to Your Head, According to the Research
Across systematic reviews, randomized trials and cross-cultural studies, habitual doomscrolling keeps showing up alongside anxiety, low mood and ba...
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Attention · 2 min
Your Phone Is Taxing Your Focus Even When You're Not Using It
Our attention on a single screen has dropped from two and a half minutes to 47 seconds. One interruption can cost 23 minutes of focus. Even a notif...
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The people doing the real research.
We sell a card. These are the researchers and writers actually studying what phones do to attention, sleep and mood. Start here, not with us.
Research · Substack
Jonathan Haidt — After Babel
The Anxious Generation author on phones, childhood and the mental health decline. The best-sourced body of work in the field.
Read → Attention · BooksCal Newport
Deep Work and Digital Minimalism. The clearest thinking on what focused work actually requires.
Read → AdvocacyCenter for Humane Technology
The team behind The Social Dilemma, on how the attention economy is designed and what to do about it.
Read → Generational dataJean Twenge
iGen and Generations. Decades of survey data on how smartphone adoption tracks against teen wellbeing.
Read → The 2,617 numberDscout — Mobile Touches
The original study behind the stat everyone quotes, including us. Read the method, not just the headline.
Read → ClinicalAmerican Psychological Association
Guidance and evidence reviews on social media use and adolescent health, without the hot takes.
Read →We don't work with any of these people and they haven't endorsed us. Links go to their own sites.
The short version
What is DisConnect?
A free screen time app plus an NFC card, made in Toronto. Tap the card to block the apps that eat your evenings. There's no timer and no ignore button — the only way back in is to tap the card again.
The card is $39, once. Nothing to charge, nothing to cancel.