Miss having a dedicated work phone? Here’s how to configure your iPhone to separate business from personal use

Many Gen Xers, boomers, and older millennials pine for the days when they had separate work and home phones. (And more balanced lives.) With this iPhone hack, it’s still possible.

Smartphones have enabled us to attend to work from nearly anywhere. But their productivity power also frequently encroaches on our personal lives—making it too easy to reply to business emails or Slack messages when we should be focused on dinner with the fam. Likewise, when we want to get work done, our smartphones can become distraction machines riddled with social media notifications and DMs.