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Day 4 of 7. Tonight

Phone sleeps outside

Your bed is for sleeping.

Day four. Your phone sleeps outside tonight. Not you. The phone.

Chimp

Why it works

Night mode is not the fix

A 2021 study tested iPhone's Night Shift and found it made no real difference to sleep. Blue light is the small part of the problem.

The feed never ends

Every swipe is a fresh mini reward and there is no last page, so your brain never hits a natural stopping point. Into bed at 11. Asleep at 1.

Out of reach, out of mind

A phone next to your bed is a cue. If it's in reach, the urge is in reach. In the kitchen, the cue is gone.

Your move today

TonightTonight your phone charges outside the bedroom. Kitchen, hallway, anywhere. It goes there 30 minutes before you go to bed. Use a cheap alarm clock to wake up.

Your phone bedtime

Phone bedtime

10:30 PM

Tonight's checklist

No alarm clock? A cheap one works fine, so don't wait. Chimp is making his own too: the Chimp Alarm Clock has an open drop list.

Tomorrow

Day 5: Ten minutes of boredom

Would you rather get shocked or sit alone?

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