I made my phone slow on purpose

Re:I made my phone slow on purpose by jjice on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:47PM (#48360201)

YouTube also added a shorts timer that does a more in-app version of this that you can set to 0 minutes to have it always on. It's under "time management" in the app settings. Can't do it on the website from what I'm aware.

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Re:I made my phone slow on purpose by maxime_ on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:54PM (#48360297)

Only thing that worked for me long term. My problem is mostly with shorts, so I didn’t want to have a global timer for the whole app.

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Re:I made my phone slow on purpose by chatmasta on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:58PM (#48360353)

For me it’s shorts and opening new tabs from the recommended videos on the one I’m currently watching… I usually never get to them though. Luckily I don’t have tab hoarding addiction and aggressively close all tabs whenever I realize I’ve got 20+ of them open.

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Re:I made my phone slow on purpose by chatmasta on Monday June 01, 2026 @01:50PM (#48360237)

I use YouTube in browser, partially because that already makes it worse… but still doesn’t stop the doom scrolling :)

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