How to Use Your Phone to Get a Break

Feeling overwhelmed by the world, life, and work? Are notifications and alerts from your phone making things worse? What can you do in the midst of everything to get present and focus? 

Use your phone to take breaks.

Here are three ways you can use your iPhone’s Focus settings to help you take the breaks you so essentially need:

1. Do Not Disturb - Simply swipe up or go to your settings page and choose Focus > Do Not Disturb. Instant break bliss. Just don’t forget to turn it back off (though you might not want to).
2. Do Not Disturb (for a specific time frame) - You can choose how long you’d like your break: an hour, until your current/next meeting ends, until this evening, or when you change location. There are also setting options for work, personal time, and sleeping.
3. Do Not Disturb (except for key people) - Let’s say you need a break, but there are one or two key people you’d like to be able to reach you in urgent circumstances. Simply go to Focus > Do Not Disturb > People (under “Allowed Notifications”), and only the people you add from your contacts will be able to get through.

Taking breaks is one of the most important tools we can utilize to help ground ourselves and find the calm we need. By using the Do Not Disturb settings on your phone, you can gain some essential down time to recharge and face the day with renewed vigor. Check out this Business Insider article that goes into more detail as well as gives instruction for Android phones.

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