27+ Smartphone Apps You Should Delete Before 2020

Michael Grothaus, Fast Company
Fri, 12/27/2019 - 12:00am

It’s a new decade. Time to get these privacy-invasive, depression-causing, money-sucking apps off your phone for good. The modern smartphone app has existed for almost a dozen years now—ever since Apple launched the App Store back in 2008. In that time, apps have become a part of our daily lives, and some of them have even become essential for communication and work-related tasks. According to Variety, the average American checks their phone 52 times a day.

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