Many on social media have hailed the benefits of using a flip phone to reduce 'micro-anxieties', be more present and even avoid sending embarrassing texts on nights out.
Others have offered similar justifications for the detox, insisting the only way for then to reduce their phone usage was cut out all potential for app use.
TikTok user @iamcrispynugget, from the US, took on a 30-day challenge to use a dumb phone - or flip phone - as part of a 'dopamine diet' to 'reset my brain's relationship with dopamine and satisfaction'.
'I realised that not using so much social media is benefiting me and my wellbeing,' she said after a week trialing her flip phone.
But by the third week, he found that using the flip phone had eradicated his 'micro-anxieties' caused by current events and social media notifications.
