The Gen Z phone habit millennials could learn from [Video]

You settle down to watch a true crime documentary on your phone or you’re casually scrolling through TikTok cat videos and just like that, a notification for a work email or text has rudely interrupted your work-life balance. 

It’s something we have all experienced at some point and it’s never ideal. Social media and group chats are also culprits. But Gen Z has found a way to turn down the noise that ‘always online’ mode brings, by permanently turning on Do Not Disturb (DND).

This simple mobile phone setting has come in handy for managing anxiety for those born between the mid-to-late 1990s and 2010. It shuts of all notifications from calls, texts, social media likes, emails and group chat updates. 

And it’s something all generations with a mobile can get behind.

Last month, an X user named Max Burns sparked a debate about it when he shared: ‘[Today I learned] that some Gen Z kids keep their cell phones …