Regarding Apple's official addition of iOS 17.2New Application Service "Journal", Wow Psychology Editor-in-Chief Cai Yuzhe shared how to use this service to make iPhone a "source of happiness" in daily life.
Many people have negative impressions of mobile phones, such as being addictive. However, Cai Yuzhe believes that "water can carry a boat, but it can also capsize it." He emphasizes that it all depends on how one uses the phone. Through proper usage habits, the phone can also help one find a sense of happiness every day.
Cai Yuzhe pointed out based on psychological research that people tend to remember negative memories, such as quarrels, failures and other frustrations, but it is relatively difficult to remember memories that make them feel happy. Therefore, he emphasized that happiness is actually obtained through continuous exploration, thereby reducing the impact of negative energy.
Psychological research shows that recording three good things every day will help improve your sense of happiness. At the same time, continuing to record for 14 days can increase your sensitivity to discovering the good things in life.
Therefore, Cai Yuzhe believes that recording personal life details in an intuitive and simple way through the new application service "Journal" officially added by Apple in iOS 17.2 will help enhance personal happy memories.
Even if users fail to record their personal lives regularly, the iPhone will record location information through the built-in GPS and communication functions, and the user will use the camera function to take images. At the same time, the iPhone's built-in health function will also record the user's walking and other activity data. Through deep learning methods, daily or specific activity summaries can be automatically compiled in the "Log" service. Users can choose to add to complete the record, thereby reducing the user's anxiety about missing specific activity records.
The design of the "Diary" is mainly to allow users to complete daily life records more simply and intuitively in a smarter way, and in the shortest time, and to quickly recall personal good things in the future.
As Apple previously stated, all recorded content in the "Log" will only be maintained on the iPhone, and all calculations are completed on the iPhone. They will not be uploaded to network services such as iCloud for collaborative processing. In order to prevent others from peeking at the content of the "Log", users can even choose to encrypt and lock it, and all content cannot be seen even by Apple.
Cai Yuzhe explained that while recording happy things every day in a "journal" can promote a higher sense of happiness, it is more important to learn how to return attention to the present and get rid of negative memories of the past, or reduce anxiety about uncertainty about the future. For example, methods such as meditation can be used to restore inner peace, increase natural light, improve sleep interruptions, or adjust breathing through the mindfulness function of Apple Watch. At the same time, the key lies in whether one can try to reduce the accumulation of negative emotions through these methods.
