It’s not you. Phones are designed to be addicting.
Why the open web links it
Explains how smartphone design intentionally exploits human psychology to create addiction.
Linked by 22 independent sites, 3 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including pyrus.com, focusonthefamily.com, stibee.com, eslbrains.com, bastter.com.
Cited in 1 Wikipedia article, including Pull-to-refresh.