One positive life change I've made recently - fully separate phone for workout (and bedtime)
- only apps it has are Whoop, Spotify, Eight Sleep and PagerDuty; even Safari is disabled
- there's no real bedtime use other than the few nights where Eight Sleep autopilot gets the temperature wrong
Big improvement to overall workout routine. I don't carry it when out and about when leaving the house but if traveling overnight, I carry it in my backpack. Has a google fi data only sim that can be added to existing plan with no added costs.
The improvement is noticeable even though the only social apps I have on my primary phone are Farcaster and Twitter (don't use IG, Snap, TikTok, etc. etc.). Biggest change is not responding to messages on Telegram or Slack in the middle of a workout.
Put the normal phone in my office before going to bed so there's no chance of checking it in the morning when I wake up. Wake up, workout and then get on my phone.
- Since secondary phone has PagerDuty, leaves open the opportunity to get paged if something goes really wrong, which is by design.
- Only gets FaceTime Audio calls and people closest to me know to call me there if needed.
"Do you ever use Apple focus modes? It's like having a second phone"
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this is the weakness of focus mode - still delivers notifications, just hides it under a banner
when I go to lock screen to change music during a workout or change Eight Sleep temperature at night, I see it