Screen time apps for a student budget: free built-in tools, Forest for revision, Opal's student discount, and Snitch for study groups and flatmates.

Freshers' week is full of people on their phones because it's easier than saying hi. How to make friends offline, keep lectures phone-free, beat the FOMO.

Make studying with friends the productive kind: agree the plan, pile up the phones, work in blocks, and the first to check their phone buys the coffees.

House rules for phones that don't feel like school: the phone basket, a Sunday offline hour, fair forfeits, and how to make it fun rather than a nag.