How to Break Up With Your Phone
On sale
25th June 2026
Price: £12.99
Now fully revised and updated, this evidence-based, user-friendly guide presents a 30-day digital detox plan that will help you set boundaries with your phone and live a more joyful and fulfilling life.
“If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book.”-Jonathan Haidt, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation
Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling-and failed? If so, this book is your solution.
In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a hands-on 30-day digital detox guide to breaking up-and then making up-with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.
Now fully revised to reflect advances in the technological landscape, this groundbreaking book features new expert advice and research on the science of addiction, with expanded chapters explaining how social media and algorithms are designed to addict us, impairing our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories; and an updated section on the unique dangers social media poses to children, with brand-new tips on how to protect them.
Also newly expanded is How to Break Up with Your Phone‘s life-changing, evidence-based 30-day plan that will guide you-and your friends and family-through the process of creating new, healthy relationships with your smartphone, tablet, or other digital devices.
Whether you’re seeking refuge from an exhausting news cycle or you’re concerned about the negative effects of social media, How to Break Up with Your Phone offers practical solutions. It’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone-and come back to life.
“If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book.”-Jonathan Haidt, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Anxious Generation
Do you feel addicted to your phone? Do you frequently pick it up “just to check,” only to look up forty-five minutes later wondering where the time has gone? Does social media make you anxious? Have you tried to spend less time mindlessly scrolling-and failed? If so, this book is your solution.
In How to Break Up with Your Phone, award-winning health and science journalist and TED speaker Catherine Price presents a hands-on 30-day digital detox guide to breaking up-and then making up-with your phone. The goal: better mental health, improved screen-life balance, and a long-term relationship with technology that feels good.
Now fully revised to reflect advances in the technological landscape, this groundbreaking book features new expert advice and research on the science of addiction, with expanded chapters explaining how social media and algorithms are designed to addict us, impairing our abilities to focus, think deeply, and form new memories; and an updated section on the unique dangers social media poses to children, with brand-new tips on how to protect them.
Also newly expanded is How to Break Up with Your Phone‘s life-changing, evidence-based 30-day plan that will guide you-and your friends and family-through the process of creating new, healthy relationships with your smartphone, tablet, or other digital devices.
Whether you’re seeking refuge from an exhausting news cycle or you’re concerned about the negative effects of social media, How to Break Up with Your Phone offers practical solutions. It’s guaranteed to help you put down your phone-and come back to life.
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Reviews
Entertaining (and also terrifying)... this is a book that should be available on the NHS
If you are a human being and you own a smartphone, you need this book.
. . .a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love.
The most important book I've read in years. Everyone I know needs it now. Life changing.
Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner - get rid now.
A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)
Fascinating, entertaining and extremely timely. Your phone is an abusive partner - get rid now.
By the time I was halfway through following Price's system, I was a convert
To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up With Your Phone, Price offers an accessible and clever way to do just that.
Price's book is an invaluable guide of how - in the author's own words - to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber.
A slim, insight-packed volume that's both a primer on the toll smartphone overuse can take on our mental and physical health, and a practical manual for a 30-day reset designed to put you on a path to moderation, this is a book whose message couldn't feel more timely, or more urgent. (No, really: after finishing the whole thing in one horrified sitting, I immediately pre-ordered 3 more copies for friends and family.)
The most important book I've read in years. Everyone I know needs it now. Life changing.
This book should be number one!
Entertaining (and also terrifying)... this is a book that should be available on the NHS
. . .a comprehensive, step-by-step solution to spending less time with your phone and more time doing the things you love.
By the time I was halfway through following Price's system, I was a convert
Price's book is an invaluable guide of how - in the author's own words - to turn your phone back into a tool, not a temptation. In these dopamine-drenched days of the smartphone era, hours can be lost to the mindless scroll. Price's easily digestible tome is practical, not preachy, and a must-have for even the worst phubber.
This book should be number one!
To design a more joyful life includes reframing some of our old perceptions and habits. Almost no single thing in modern life deserves a reframe more than the smartphone. In How To Break Up With Your Phone, Price offers an accessible and clever way to do just that.