Airplane mode and cell phone-free zone August 4, 2024
How much time do you spend on your smartphone every day? Celebrities like Mike Müller and Wendy Holdener have revealed how they reduce their screen time.
Wendy Holdener puts her smartphone into flight mode on the slopes.Photo: Keystone
What do ski racer Wendy Holdener, actor Mike Müller and satirist Patrick Karpiczenko have in common? They spend several hours a day on their smartphones. They spoke about how they use the devices in the current edition of the “SonntagsZeitung”.
When on the slopes, Wendy Holdener’s cell phone is in flight mode. “I enjoy that,” the Swiss woman told the “SonntagsZeitung.” She spends around two hours of screen time every day. She also needs her smartphone for training, among other things. She therefore divides her cell phone time into “good” and “useless” time. But there are definitely days when she simply spends too much time on her cell phone.
Karpiczenko, alias Karpi, spends a good three and a half hours a day looking at the small screen. He admits that he spends a lot of time on his cell phone. He doesn’t regret it. The hours accumulate while he’s out and about or in his own room. “That’s why I call it the ‘toilet entertainment system’,” said the satirist. But he has imposed one rule on himself: he uses his cell phone as little as possible in the presence of his daughter.
Tip against too much mobile time
For actor Müller, the toilet – next to the bed and sofa – is a cell phone-free zone. He wants to limit his cell phone use. He did not want to reveal the exact amount of time he uses it. He said it was not representative. A lot of time is also spent in front of the computer screen and tablet. He admitted that he uses his cell phone “definitely too much”. The 60-year-old has a tip for anyone who wants to limit their cell phone use: “Set the screen to black and white. Awesome.”
