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Here’s how to set your iPhone up for a relaxing vacation — even if you’re a workaholic
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I don’t take many vacations. And when I do, I have a tendency to slip in a little work here and there. And a little more. Until it becomes really not that much of a vacation at all.
(I won’t tell you about the time I once answered email for 2 hours by the pool in Hawaii, but my wife will.)
That’s bad for my family, it’s bad for me, and it’s bad for my employers, who know that a fully rested worker is much more productive than a worker who never checks out. So I’ve come up with a surefire way to make sure I stay fully present, in the here and now, whenever I’m on vacation.
Follow these steps, and you can join me…
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Because I’m in the news business, I tend to check Twitter a lot. The only way I can prevent myself is by uninstalling the app. I have to tell myself that I really don’t care what’s happening in the world while I’m on vacation. Plus, if it’s really huge news, I’ll learn about it from another traveler or on TV.
Next up, Slack. That’s the app we use to coordinate workflow here. Bye.
LinkedIn? Nope.
Facebook? I struggled with this one. On one hand, it can be fun to post pictures from your vacation so all your nosy friends and relatives can see what you’re up to. But after a few days, I realized that was just another distraction, so — out it went. (Next time I’ll nuke it before I leave.)
Now the most important part: email. You don’t want to delete your email app entirely, or you’ll lose your contacts with it — and you won’t know who’s calling you in the middle of your vacation. Instead, go into Settings.
Select Notifications.
Look for your email program. Most people use the built in Mail program. I happen to use Outlook, from Microsoft. See how it’s got Badges turned on? That’s the little number, like 47, that shows me how many unread emails I have.
Click the program name and you’ll come to this screen. See that “Allow Notifications” slider?
Buh-bye.
Now, for some fun. Be sure to download a new game for the plane. I chose 1010, which was recommended by Business Insider UK editor Jim Edwards.
Good for the kids, too.
You’ll also want to take photos during the trip. I’m fine with the default Photos app and Instagram, but my wife swears by this one, VSCO.
You’ll also want to know what the weather’s like where you’re going. In the built-in weather app, type your destination.
Add it to the list, then drag and drop it toward the top. Cold! Good thing we checked before we left so we could bring warm jackets.
On your way out the door, don’t forget your charger!
There’s one more thing I like to do once I’m there: Set my phone’s lock screen to a scene from my current vacation, so I have no reminders of the outside world. Here’s the old lock screen scene, from a weekend trip to Big Sur.
Once you’ve taken a few pictures, search through them in the default Photos app.
Pick a nice landscape. Nothing with too much shadow.
Move and scale the image until it’s lined up how you like it.
Set as lock and home screen.
Now I can relax…and worry about my son trying to slip under the railing between him and a 3,000-foot drop into the bottom of the Grand Canyon.
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