I have ADHD and I am addicted to the Internet. Web-browsing mindlessly for hours is messing big time with my dopamine levels, so I recently decided to keep my iPhone at home with the Wi-Fi on (so I can still check WhatsApp messages) and put my SIM card in a cheap dumb phone (Crosscall Spider X-5).
The issue is, the UX is shitty as hell, and SMS management sucks: there is no timeline of messages, and storage is limited to 500 messages (which is a massive PITA since I have to periodically delete my SMS to receive new ones). This is really infuriating because the 2GB SD card inside could probably store a lifetime of messages.
Any nice and cheap feature phone with unlimited storage for SMS and a UX that doesn't suck?
You said you went to keep your iPhone at home and put your SIM card in a dumb phone. So does that mean you want to take your phone to work or when you go out? What were the situations in which you pulled out your iPhone and you mindlessly would browse the internet? Are you a coder and that was what you would do when you would wait for a compile or something? Any kind of downtime you would pull out your iPhone like a cigarette smoker would take a smoke break? Try to figure out those situations and come up with alternate activities to do. Once you figure out those alternate activities try to make those alternate activities have the lowest barrier to entry. Obviously pulling your iPhone out of your pocket or inches away from your desk is a whole lot easier than getting up and taking a break and taking a walk for 15 minutes or whatever.