I’m new to this forum. I am working on cleaning the clutter from my life by possibly going Kompakt. I currently have the newest iPhone 17 Pro which has taken over my life. I have already deleted the games and a bunch of garbage I don’t personally need. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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Try to break it down to make it a smooth process, or make a deep cut with smartphone use - for some it might be too much though.
It will be easier if you strip the smartphone of a SIM card and it’d stay in a car for emergency use cases.
You can also rebuild a toolkit for things you were doing on your smartphone. For example:
- e-mails → PC with an e-mail client
- banking → PC
- Google Maps → car navigation system
- maps → paper maps
- camera app (if it was more than just documenting something) → actual camera
- voice recording → voice recorder
- video editing → Camtasia or something
- dozens of messaging apps → stick to one
- social media apps → try to just cut it or if you can’t, get yourself so busy that you won’t have time to reach laptop to look at Facebook or Instagram unless you really need to reach out to someone over there
You might need to go through a though process where you’ll decide if ditching something is a quick win or perhaps you need make it a gradual change towards nothing or towards those separate tools.
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@buiosu gives wise advice, including going through a thought process in which you decide whether ditching something will be a quick win.
I especially like the advice about social-media apps. If you are not outright ready to close a social-media account, then try accessing it only via computer. I personally never had social-media apps on a smartphone. I accessed these accounts only through a PC, and this made it psychologically easier to close each one. Now, when a friend asks me whether I saw such-and-such on Facebook or whatever, I reply, “No, I don’t have that account. Tell me about what you saw!” This leads either to interesting conversations or to the friend dropping the topic after realizing that it was not interesting enough to discuss!
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I rebuilt my music library and uploaded a few albums to my MK. There’s something lovely about physical media. If you fancy that, I think it’s a good first step — getting some CDs and ripping them. Also it keeps you from scrolling , if that’s an issue. You can just install a minimalist launcher on your iPhone if you don’t feel like splurging or if you want to ease into a MK instead of going cold turkey. Cheers
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Hi. Welcome to the Mudita Forum & thank you for reaching out.
First & foremost, moving from an iPhone Pro to Mudita Kompakt is not just a phone swap, it’s REALLY a shift in habits, expectations, and daily rhythms. Doing it slowly matters. I know you may think of it as moving from Apple to Android & that yes, it will get some getting used to, in terms of features, functions & generally how things work. HOWEVER, it’s a bit more complicated than that. I would suggest a very gradual transition which gives you time to untangle iMessage and RCS properly, avoid missed messages, and reduce frustration that can come from switching cold turkey.
More importantly, it allows your nervous system and routines to adapt. Mudita Kompakt works best when it’s chosen intentionally, not as a sudden withdrawal. Going step by step increases the chances that the change feels freeing rather than limiting.
Think of it this way, if you want to take part in a marathon in 6 months, but you lead a very sedentary lifestyle, you’re not going to start going on 10K runs, right off the bat. You’re gonna want to make sure you take it slowly.
This way you have time to get used to the changes & not feel frustrated when something does not function as it did on an iPhone.
It’s important to make the shift a process, so it doesn’t become a total shock to your system.
Indeed! While running a marathon, for which I had trained for many months, I overheard some medics on the race course at mile 19. Paraphrasing, one medic said to the other, “We have to go back to mile 4. Someone is having heart problems there because he drank 11 Red Bulls!”
That marathon participant, who surely had not trained for it, gave himself heart palpitations by using a massive number of energy drinks as his preparation for the race. It sounded good in theory, but it was not what his body needed to complete the marathon.
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I recommend Cal Newport’s book Digital Minialism. It is motivating and has some practical steps to take with digital detox.
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