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Apple’s Most Underrated Feature: The Off Button

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 May 15, 2016

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Take out your iPhone and move your hand to the top right and you’ll find a button. Hold it down for 5 seconds and slide your thumb to power off. How often do you perform that act?

For me, never. I only use that button to set my phone to idle to save the battery, I actually never turn my phone off. Even when I’m on the plane, I turn it to ‘airplane mode,’ and the second I land I immediately turn on WiFi so I can refresh my mailbox and see new notifications. I bet everyone reading this can relate. In fact, I bet half of the people reading this are on their smartphone.

I’m an Apple person, and I love Apple don’t get me wrong. From my MacBook computer, to my iPad, Apple TV and iPhone, I’m connected. A little too connected some may argue. Everything is synced together and notifications are consistently distracting even though I’ve hidden about 90% of the notifications.

As embarrassing as it is to say, my phone is the last thing I check before I go to bed at night, and the first thing I check when I wake up in the morning. It’s an awful habit and one that I realized I needed to break when I downloaded an app called Moment, which showed me exactly how long I’m on my phone each day. It was shocking.

The last two weeks I tried an experiment…one that I’ve reflected on a bit and wanted to share in hopes you consider trying it too if you feel like you’re addicted to your phone.

I turned my phone off every day for hours at a time. Groundbreaking, right? No.

It seems simple, but let me tell you, it’s not. The first couple days I did it I was anxious about what I was missing. I turned off my email notifications on my computer as well so I could focus. Really focus.

At first, I started turning it off from 9-11a, and then 2-3p. In those 3 hours of completely focusing on my tasks, I probably got more done than I normally would in an entire day. And guess what happened when I turned my phone back on? Nothing. I missed nothing.

Simple things like checking Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, the news, text messages, and Twitter constantly add up. I felt like I was producing, but I wanted more out of my day. I took it a step further and made a rule to physically place my phone in my bedroom the moment I get home and not get it until 8pm, freeing up another 2 hours in my day.

My family told me I’ve never been more present these past two weeks and instead of documenting events in my life with pictures, I was participating in the events.

If you find yourself on your phone constantly and feel you are addicted like I was, try this experiment. Start small and eventually you’ll find a happy medium where you can participate on your phone, but be more present and focused in your life and career.

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