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Phone Addiction Quiz: Am I Addicted to My Phone?
10 honest questions about how you actually use your phone: mornings, mood, sleep, and how many times you've already tried to cut back. No shame, no streaks, no email required. Answer below and get your result instantly.
Do you need to stay away?
10 honest questions. No streaks, no shame. Just a read on where you're at.
Be honest. No one's grading this.
Do you check it within minutes of waking up, before you're even out of bed?
Signs You Urgently Need a Social Media Detox
- You check it within minutes of waking up, before you've even decided to.
- Your thumb opens the app on autopilot, faster than you can think about it.
- You feel worse (flatter, more anxious, more restless) after scrolling than before.
- You catch yourself comparing your life to what you see there.
- You lose track of time on it and feel a little weird about how long it was.
- It cuts into your sleep, keeping you up later than you meant to be.
- You've tried cutting back before and ended up right back within a few weeks.
None of these on their own mean much. A few of them together, showing up often, is the actual signal worth paying attention to, which is exactly what the quiz above is built to read.
How Does Phone Addiction Affect Your Brain?
Social apps are built on variable rewards, the same mechanism behind slot machines. You never know if the next scroll brings something great, boring, or nothing at all, and that unpredictability is what keeps your brain checking. Over time, that loop trains an automatic reach for your phone that has little to do with what you actually want in the moment, which is why willpower alone rarely holds up against it.
About the Stay Away Screen Time Solution
Stay Away is a guided social media detox app we're building: short, level-based detoxes that step up as you're ready, instead of asking for cold turkey on day one. If your result above landed on moderate or high, that's exactly who it's for.
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