Not everyone finds it easy to be quiet for two minutes during the Remembrance Day. Your phone is easily grabbed, but with that you miss the commemorative moment. With this tip you ensure that a smartphone becomes unusable for a while between 8 p.m. and 8:02 p.m.
Where you used to have nothing except your own thoughts during the two minutes of silence, you now feel your smartphone burning a hole in your pants in that unguarded moment. This temptation can be great, also for your children, for example, who do not yet know how to behave during the May 4 commemoration.
You can confiscate the smartphones and hide them somewhere, but there is a more elegant alternative. With Screen Time on an iPhone or Digital Wellbeing on an Android device, you can make a smartphone unusable for two minutes during the memorial.
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This is how you set up the iPhone during Remembrance Day
On an iPhone, open the Settings app, choose “Screen Time” and tap “Device Free Time.” Here you can set a schedule when the phone is not allowed to distract you for a while. Notifications are withheld, but you cannot tap apps during this period either. In the schedule you can select a time from 20:00 to 20:02, so that the distraction-free period starts during the memorial.
At ‘Always allowed’ you can select a few exceptions, so that you can, for example, use the Phone app to make an emergency call. Under ‘Communication limits’ you can limit who you can still reach during this period.
Please note: Device-free time is strictly optional. You can exceed it by tapping an app and choosing ‘Ignore limit’ at the warning, so you can still access it. For children, you can select “Use Screen Time Passcode” so that you lock the option with a password and they can’t bypass the option.
Focus mode on Android
Android has a similar feature with a slightly different name: Digital Wellbeing. You can also find this in your phone’s settings, where you can then select ‘Digital Well-being’.
Here you then choose the Focus option, where you can set when you want to concentrate without distraction. You then select which apps you want to make temporarily unusable and which you do not want to be notified of. You can also set a schedule here, so that the option activates between 20:00 and 20:02.
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