Distractions? What distractions? Here are our recommendations for apps that help you stay focused on the task at hand.

I write for a living, so I spend 6–8 hours every day staring at my screen while typing away. Oftentimes, this number gets stretched primarily due to endless distractions thrown at me by the internet.

Devices like Brick lock you out of your most distracting apps, but it also costs $60. I figured out how to do the same with a free app and a cheap tracker.

The biggest and perhaps most controversial new change in iOS 18 developer beta 5 is Distraction Control – the ability to hide distracting HTML elements in Safari. By tapping the Reader button in ...