Hi everyone!
Welcome back to Lavendaire.
Today I'm gonna do a simple video
that's actually highly requested.
It's what's on my iPhone.
So I have the iPhone X.
I personally like to call it the "iPhone 'X'".
I know it's technically called the "iPhone '10'",
but whatever.
Forgive me if I call it the "iPhone X".
I'm gonna do a little screen recording.
If you guys don't know, first quick tip is: You can record your iPhone screen from here.
All you have to do is go to the Control Center.
I'll show you right now.
You go into Control Center, and then Customize controls.
And then you see I've selected Screen Recording right here.
Alright, so first I'll show you my home page.
This image, I got from Pinterest.
I was looking up apartment décor inspiration, and this pink couch and the greenery
really spoke to me, so I decided to put that as my background to kind of envision
my ideal apartment, since I'm planning to move in a month or so.
Pretty exciting!
Before I open the phone, I know a lot of people will ask me about my phone case.
So this is a super, super thin case that I got off Amazon.
I think I just looked up
"thin iPhone X case".
I'll post a link to where I got my case down below.
But I know a lot of people ask questions about it.
Even my brother,
he came home from Seattle the other day.
He has the same phone,
but he had the Apple case which is pretty bulky.
And he saw mine and he was like, "I hate you."
And he immediately purchased my case and copied me.
So our phones look identical.
Alright, so here is what's in my iPhone.
Just a quick glance at all my apps.
I have three pages, and you notice that I don't like to put things on the bottom row.
I kind of like to leave space, just because I don't want too many apps on my front screen.
And I also really care about filling up most of the apps.
The last page,
I have one empty space.
But preferably, I like to fill it out so the rows are even.
And I turn off all badges.
I hate badges.
Okay, exception is for messages and important,
very urgent things.
But even for email, I turn off badges.
So I don't know
how many unread emails I have unless I open the app and look at it.
I hate notifications and I hate badges.
So that's just how I like to stay sane
because I don't like notifications popping on my feed all the time.
So obviously, with a lot of apps, I think 'm just gonna walk you guys through my most
used apps.
As you can see, the front page layout, I think my most used app is probably Instagram.
Instagram is just where I spend a lot of time, too much time actually,
that I want to spend less time on Instagram in 2018.
But yeah, follow me @lavendaire,
if you don’t already.
And that's about it.
Let's not talk too much about the apps.
On my front page I also like to keep the apps that I use while I'm in the car
because I don't want to have to be swiping to find all the apps that I need.
So Spotify is right here on the bottom right.
I use that all the time.
And Audible, I listen to in the car.
I love listening to all these books.
And then Podcasts is also on the front page.
But to be honest, guys,
even though I have a podcast of my own, I listen to Audible more than I listen to podcasts.
And that's just because I feel more productive when I'm listening to a book,
an entire finished piece vs. random episodes of podcasts,
because I feel podcasts are a hit or miss.
Sometimes you'll really like an episode
and other times, you feel like, "Oh, that was it?"
I don't know.
I also keep a lot of my social media on the front page for easy access.
YouTube, I go on a lot.
Snapchat, I use that to connect with friends and family
more than my social stuff.
One of my favorite apps is called Day One.
I've talked about this so many times.
This is my journaling app in a way that I just use this
to document my actual life and bullet point the things that I do every day.
And as you can see, I have an entry for every day.
I've literally had this for years.
I can go back to–let's see.
I think I got this app in 2011.
November 2011 was when
I started this app.
Of course, I didn't post so much but, starting in 2012–
No, I think it was 2013-14, that's when I started to post almost every day.
And more recently, Day One allows you to add multiple pictures per post,
so I love adding photos every day of my life, just so I can visually look back on my life.
It's one of my favorite ways of keeping my memories in one digital place.
And what's great is you can export your entries into a PDF.
You can sync it to your Dropbox,
which is what I do.
So I make sure there's no way I can lose this content.
So moving on, I think you guys are interested in my photography apps.
So I mainly use VSCO and PicTapGo for editing photos.
I have a whole video
on how I edit Instagram photos.
It obviously has changed a little bit since then
because I bought a subscription to VSCO X, and what that is:
You pay $20 a year and you get all the VSCO filters, plus a new filter every month.
And you get to filter videos, which is what I love.
I love to filter my videos
and then put them on Instagram Stories.
I don't know, I think that's pretty fun
and I think the $20 a year is definitely worth it.
And on the bottom, Wunderlist is my favorite to-do list app,
even though they're not continuing on.
I think Microsoft bought them out,
but I don't care.
The app is still functional and I'm using it now.
Next to Wunderlist is ZenFriend which is my favorite meditation app.
I've talked about this a lot on my channel as well.
Unum, this one's fun.
I've mentioned this in my Instagram video, but this is the app that I use
to plan my Instagram feed.
I love that you can just switch photos around.
Alright, moving onto the second page which is more work/business-y related apps.
These are apps that I don't use as often as ones on the front page,
but still ones that I want easier access to than the last page.
I just try to organize them by frequency of use, and a little bit by category
even though sometimes it's not super organized exactly by category.
On the top right, I have Mint which is my favorite money-tracking app.
I love that it shows you trends on how much you spend every month,
how much you make every month.
And you can see the trends for your year,
how much you're spending, whether it stays the same, or spending more or spending less.
I just like using that for visually seeing where my money is and where it's going.
Another app that you guys might be interested in is called Moment.
This is an app that tracks how much time you're spending on your phone.
It tracks it by how much time your phone is left on.
So sometimes if you're not even
on your phone, but it's on, it is really interesting just to track how much time
you're actually spending looking at your screen because you want to
reduce that amount of time and actually live in the real world.
Another thing you might notice is: I have two email apps.
One is Gmail on the second page,
and one is Inbox.
That's on the bottom.
Inbox is linked to my personal email accounts.
And then my Gmail is linked to my Lavendaire business accounts.
So I keep the Gmail on the second page because I don't want to
constantly be thinking about work and business-related emails.
I like to keep my personal and business emails separate.
And it's just nice to have
on the second page.
I just left it that way and it doesn't bother me, so yeah.
Trello is another productivity app that I like to use to organize my plans and my projects.
For example, I have a Trello board for my workbook, everything I have to do
related to the workbook.
And then I have "Content ideas", so I have a whole Trello
for ideas that I like to keep and organize.
Alright, my last page is for everything else.
I have Apple-related apps
that I don't like and I don't use, so I just keep them in its own Apple folder.
And then "Media", this is really just random shopping sites.
As you can see,
the categories are not exact.
Here I have travel-related apps.
I know some of these are bank and money apps, but I just wanted to throw it in there
because I didn't want to make a new folder for them.
But yeah, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb.
This is a cool app.
Wunderground is an app that I found out through Sara Dietschy.
It's just a weather app that gives you more information, more data
than your standard weather app on your iPhone.
So when you're traveling,
it's really helpful to look up where you are and see the weather by the hour,
because you want to know whether it starts raining later in the day or whatever.
Wow, look at this: Air Quality Index.
"Unhealthy for sensitive groups".
Isn’t that crazy?
You see, it gets real detailed.
I also have some control apps that are related to controlling things in my house.
And then I have Venmo, Shazam, SignNow.
TV Time is a cool app that I use
to track the episodes of the TV shows that I watch because sometimes I lose track.
And it's fun because it also has a social element.
So when I was really into
watching Terrace House, after you watch the episode you can go on the app
and see what other people are saying about the TV show and comment,
and just laugh at the GIFs people post about it.
So that's fun.
And here I just have two media streaming apps that I personally don't use.
It's just because my boyfriend downloaded it to watch movies and shows on my phone.
Face App is actually just a really funny app that I found that I feel is a really nice
icebreaker
with your friends because you take a picture of your face and then you can transform it
into young, old, movie star, man.
You can turn males into females and females into males,
and it's just really funny because, I don't know, it's entertaining to show people,
"This is what you look like when you're old.
This is you as a guy."
So I'll show you.
I'll do a quick little…so we'll wait for it to process.
What's also weird–Oh, I'm so awkward in that photo.
It can make you fake smile.
Look at this.
Ew!
And then me, when I'm old.
Dang!
Are you guys seeing this?
Me, when I'm young.
It's the same, but the skin is a little smoother.
Okay, and lastly me as a male.
I just think it's so funny, so entertaining.
Look at this.
Oh my gosh.
So I found that sometimes you're in a social situation
where maybe you don't have anything to talk about, you could be like,
"Oh my god, I have to show you this app."
And so that's why I keep this app on my phone.
Alright, that's what's on my iPhone.
If you have any questions about anything,
leave them down below.
I'll do my best to answer you.
And now I'd like to do a mini-giveaway.
I'm gonna be giving out this cute Hello Kitty iPhone case that I actually bought in Japan,
along with some assorted makeup.
So we have an eyeshadow palette,
four liquid lipsticks, and this mini-emergency kit that's a bunch of little things
that you would need in an emergency.
To enter this giveaway, all you have to do
is subscribe to my vlog channel which is at Hello Lavendaire.
I'll post the link down below.
After you subscribe, just send me a quick tweet @lavendaire, letting me know that it's
done.
And after that, I will pick one lucky winner on December 30th to win this prize.
Alright, that's it.
Good luck for the giveaway, and I'll see you guys next time.
Bye!