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Oliver Haslam

iPhone owners with ‘phantom vibration syndrome’ can try these steps for relief

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If you've ever picked your phone out of your pocket only to discover that the vibration you just felt wasn't actually a vibration at all, you might be suffering from something called phantom vibration syndrome, or PVS.

PVS is something that people have suffered from for years and it's generally associated with the belief that those people use their iPhones too much. If that's the case, the theory is that you could just reduce the amount of time you spend doomscrolling Twitter. But is there anything else you can try?

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