How to Make Your Smartphone a Little Less So

As a website, ProfHacker is very much of the smartphone age. (Heck, we’ve been around so long that we have posts wrestling with the concept of even trying one.) We’ve reviewed countless apps over the years, and detailed myriad workflows for making the phone a useful part of academic life, rather than just a way to kill time.

Things do change, however, and in 2018 much of the discussion about smartphones is increasingly about the ways in which their apps, services, and interfaces are often expl...