Removing Safari From my iPhone

One of the suggestions of the book I’ve been reading, Make Time, is to remove both your email account AND your web browser from your smart phone. On an iPhone, you can’t totally remove Safari, but you can disable it (making the icon disappear even from Search) using the Screen Time Settings. I’ve done this as an experiment. The main result is making me realize just how often I pick up my phone to search for some random thing that popped into my head. I think I’d like to train myself out of that impulse. I don’t want internet randomness to detract from whatever I’m doing at the moment.

If you want to do the same on an iPhone, here are the instructions I followed (iPhone section).