iOS 13 comes out today, but when was the last time you had a software update?

My home screen has nothing on it. And the background is a reminder.

I remember being excited to get iOS 4 with the bubbles in the background. Then excited to get iOS 7 and all the new icons.

This morning I’m downloading iOS 13. Millions of others will too. Our phones get a new way of thinking. New features added, old ones removed.

But when was the last time you upgraded your way of thinking?

Smartphone, dumb time

Screen time is the new smoking. Show me someone’s screen time and I’ll tell you their priorities.

The screen time feature came out last year with iOS 12. It was an eye-opener. Now the thoughts I had of “I’m using my phone too much”, could be quantified.

I wasn’t a fan of the first time I got a weekly report back, an average of 90-minutes per day. I wrote down a list of how I enjoy spending my time. None of them involved a phone. All of my valuable work is done off the phone. So any amount of time I spent on my phone would take away from time I could be using elsewhere.

We started a ritual. Sunday nights at the dinner table, I’d ask my brothers.

“What’s your screen time report?”

They’d check.