What's on my minimalist iPhone | settings, apps, habits and more

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[christinewelch]

This took me a long time to watch. I kept stopping and doing things like changing colours, ringtones, turning off notifications and moving (and deleting apps). Thank you Margaret!!!

[breerodriguez]

I love that you distinguished what a phone is and what a phone isn’t. Of course it will be different for each person. For you, it’s a tool to communicate and to do you work. It’s not entertainment or motivation/inspiration. A video on what you do for entertainment or inspiration would be cool! Thanks for the great content

[yangiemouie]

🤯 “unreading” text messages. Sometimes I read text messages and plan to respond later but then totally forget until days. This tip is brilliant!!

[g.palmer]

Love your hair! Could you do a video on how you currently take care of it?

[MC-fhpl]

I had already turned off all notifications on my phone and have a simplified app list, but changed my ring tone and moved my apps to the second page instead of the first. I am known to leave my phone in DND too! Less is more, thank you MM!

[hannahbentson]

I relate so much. I’m easily overstimulated especially as a mama of 3. I muted all my notifications bc they were stressing me out. I do what you do too with the respond when you are ready and it’s a game changer!

Another thing that really helped me was color filters turn it to black and white.

[Kayla-yvwc]

Love this video and you! I’ve been watching you for so long and as a brand new Christian, I feel like your content is really opening my mind to what’s actually important. ❤

[kaitlinharbin]

To take this up a notch I've also seen people turn on "color filter" to black and white to decrease the stimulation we get from the colorfulness of apps. I find this most helpful in social media apps.

[prettypoetic]

I recently changed my ringtone and notification tones and I feel so much better. Way less anxiety.

[ericawhitfield]

Found you when you did the podcast with Madisun. Nice video. It’s like trying to make a dumb phone, but with a smart phone. I’d like to have a dumb phone, but there are a few things I need if I’m out. I say need knowing need isn’t actually true, but you know. I’m not on any social media, just visit YouTube with a few (10 or less) people I subscribe to, so it’s a bit easier for me to be untethered. One thing I want to work on is to not always respond immediately, when 90% of texts don’t need an immediate response. The phone case to put down your phone is interesting. Not knocking it because I do know it’s a serioussss problem in today’s world, but when you actually think about it, we’re wild. Paying someone to basically make/encourage me to put my phone down and exist.

[EliseWood]

Love that sweater on ya Marge ❤loved this video too so inspiring and something I’ve been debating with my hubby recently too as far as fasting from phones (we don’t have any social media other than watching YT or Pinterest)

[BigCalmWorldRelaxation]

This is such a helpful video. I definitely feel the pressure to respond to the constant trickle of WhatsApp messages immediately. It’s exhausting but it doesn’t have to be

[rachelscott]

Love this! Thanks! Also I love your calm Spotify playlist, would love if you had a YouTube one that you could share or something!

[mirandahensley]

Love this! Have been looking for ways to make my phone less important to me and this will definitely help me

[-livingjesusever-]

My favorite thing I do with my own phone that is absolutely fantastic as I put it on red light mode. I even programmed a shortcut on my phone so I click the home button three times and the whole screen turns red. You can program your iPhone to do that if you Google it. I use red light mode all the time! ❤❤❤

[thiagofbenedicto]

Fantastic Margaret. Great video. From Brazil

[samanthaathanassiadis]

This is amazing and so helpful. Thank you!!!

[dawnm]

I love this! I didn’t know there were calm ringtones. Maybe they’re new? I paused and changed mine to more calm sounds!

[gabrielhannah]

This was an unbelievably helpful video. Thank you SO much!
Also, do you mind sharing how/what you used to start your YouTube channel?

[rachelfarson]

I had mine on dark mode and then I learned that the light text against the black can actually be more straining on the eyes because it isn’t as crisp 🤷🏼‍♀️ but I also liked the dark mode more!