Margaret Qualley Has a 2-Telephone Hack to Keep away from Being On-line All Day

Margaret Qualley, 30, has a easy trick for staying current.

In an interview with Cosmopolitan revealed on Monday, the actor spoke about maintaining two telephones and the way it helps her keep unplugged.

“Cell telephones are like cigarettes. I am an enormous fan of airplane mode. As a result of opening your telephone can be like going to work, you recognize? I haven’t got any apps on my telephone besides Uber, texting, and Maps,” Qualley informed Cosmopolitan.

That approach, she feels much less inclined to scroll whereas going about her day —like when in line on the grocery retailer — and extra more likely to keep current, she stated.

“I am simply there, listening to folks’s conversations. And I really feel extra immersed in my life,” Qualley added.

“The Substance” star retains a second telephone at house solely for checking social media.

“I’ve one other telephone at house that does not have cellphone service — it simply has WiFi, and I can take a look at Instagram. We’re all undoubtedly too plugged in,” she stated.

In a Might 2023 interview with The Customary, Qualley stated she is not an enormous fan of social media. “I haven’t got Instagram. I am probably not in that sport. It is form of a lose-lose state of affairs,” she stated.

The actor has since created an Instagram profile.

A consultant for Qualley didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark despatched by Enterprise Insider exterior common hours.

Qualley is much from the one superstar rethinking display time and social media.

Actor Mia Threapleton, 24, stated in Might that her mom, Kate Winslet, made her write a professionals and cons record for becoming a member of Instagram when she was 14.

“The cons fully outweighed the professionals for me. That was fairly a clarifying second. Since then, the extra time I spend on this world, the extra I am actually blissful that I haven’t got it,” Threapleton stated.

Some celebrities have chosen to forgo smartphones and different digital gadgets fully.

In 2023, Christopher Nolan stated that he finds fashionable know-how distracting, so he does not carry a smartphone.

“If I am producing my materials and writing my very own scripts, being on a smartphone all day would not be very helpful for me,” Nolan, 55, stated.

Michael Cera, who acted in Greta Gerwig’s “Barbie,” stated in 2023 that he wasn’t added to the group chat for the Barbie and Ken actors as a result of he did not use a smartphone.

“I haven’t got an iPhone myself. … I’ve a flip telephone,” Cera stated.