iPhone - productivity tool or Time-Waster?

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Do you have an iPhone?
Do you find it makes you more productive, or causes you to more time than if you had a "dumb phone".
I had a iPhone and I found it was a time waster - my wife has a iPhone and it helps her to get things done.
Do you use any "parental controls" or other apps / software to help keep you from wasting time on your phone?
Have you ever put your phone in a drawer or given it to a friend for a while to help "break the habit" or get a break from your iPhone?

P.S.

Looking for personal experience here - not opinion.

Please direct all "Android, Windows Mobile, ZTE is Way Better than iPhone" to the bit-bucket (or start your own thread).

From personal experience, it has been both.

I often use my phone to keep with the news, watch random videos on You-Tube,
or improve language skills using an app I downloaded for my phone.

I have an iPhone 8 but to be honest I barely ever use it. I only got it for using ride share apps after my stroke. I can't read much of anything on the screen because my eyesight is so bad. I'm home most of the time so I use my laptop. I also have a landline for phone calls (although I seldom do phone calls).

My boss wants me to have a smart phone so that I can forward e-mail from him to it.
This is how he uses his iPhone.
I am worried that if I get it it will end up being much more fun to surf the web than to do my job.

Anyone ever try something like

https://tasktopia.io/

To gamify your to-do list?