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Can My iPhone Help Me Stop Doomscrolling? | Prove It

Apple’s wellness features extend beyond just heart rate, even with older models. CNET Video Producer Carly Marsh explores several tricks in iOS to help decouple her from her social media usage and stop the doomscrolling. You can find the product mentioned in thie video linked below Apple iPhone 12 Mini *CNET may get a commission…

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Apple’s wellness features extend beyond just heart rate, even with older models. CNET Video Producer Carly Marsh explores several tricks in iOS to help decouple her from her social media usage and stop the doomscrolling.

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0:00 Intro
0:13 iOS18 Wellness Features
0:32 The Baseline
1:48 Challenge 1 – Downtime Controls
2:24 Challenge 2 – App Time Limits
2:40 Challenge 3 – Screen Distance
2:53 Challenge 4 – Keep Phone Away from Bed
3:11 Midweek Check-in
4:37 Lifestyle Changes
6:39 The Data
8:48 Outro

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  1. @JohnWalkerDOS

    October 1, 2025 at 8:04 am

    Wait, what?

  2. @iblackfeathers

    October 1, 2025 at 8:17 am

    doomscrolling refers to endlessly scrolling bad and negative news. you are either strangely subscribed to and actively reading doom and negative news on your instagram and tiktok or maybe misusing the term to generally mean overall screentime.

  3. @tamboleo

    October 1, 2025 at 9:03 am

    Thank you Sadness from Inside Out

    • @spektred

      October 1, 2025 at 2:11 pm

      That’s jacked up

  4. @Royce16727

    October 1, 2025 at 9:32 am

    I was able to reduce my “maladaptive” screen time significantly on my own, but luckily I have the ability to rely on various martial art and meditation philosophies that I learned in years past. I’m blind now, so I require my phone for pretty much everything in daily life – e.g. obtaining food, transportation, and shelter; navigating obstacles; and performing work tasks. There’s no way that I can ever decouple myself from my phone, but there are various lifestyle/training techniques that One can use in order to reduce the amount of “wasted time” on a phone. I think technological solutions aren’t going to be all that effective in combating psychological/neurological problems that are exacerbated by technology, in the long term. But it is a good first start for those that are truly suffering. Great video!

  5. @Lcavl-clk

    October 1, 2025 at 9:33 am

    My attention is split between my iphone & Oneplus😅 screentime help with that.😅

  6. @coryluck

    October 1, 2025 at 9:46 am

    Why is this person so miserable looking.

  7. @gokujosh96

    October 1, 2025 at 10:55 am

    Mine is worse, and that’s with me not having any social media accounts !

  8. @milhouse14

    October 1, 2025 at 12:42 pm

    Self-control can stop you from doomscrolling

  9. @georgehoyle8797

    October 1, 2025 at 12:44 pm

    Are you sure you want to make a video encouraging me to cut back on my screen time? The first channel I probably will stop watching is yours.

  10. @PigRipperLAW

    October 1, 2025 at 1:11 pm

    This doesn’t make sense. If you can the self control to keep “screen time” active then you have the self control to just not use the phone in ways that you find self defeating.

  11. @ocularsurfacewatermelon689

    October 1, 2025 at 1:52 pm

    Why get out of bed and walk halfway across your room to get your phone when this could all be alleviated with an Apple Watch. Using an Apple Watch largely eliminates the need to even look at your phone!

    Got an emergency call? Apple Watch! Need to check a notification? Apple Watch! Need to check a text from your best friend? Apple. Watch.

  12. @grayhawk-j1h

    October 1, 2025 at 2:11 pm

    Sending this to my wife. Is there a part 1 to this that you know you have a problem?

  13. @DerekJeterrl

    October 1, 2025 at 3:24 pm

    Phone screen has so many stains on it in the beginning of the video. >:(

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