In the first of our three-part series about how to use your phone better, we walk through a few simple things you can do to help your current one last as long as possible.I’m bad at my phone. By that I mean a few things: I don’t take the best care of it, and I drop it at a rate that even a slapstick comedian would call over the top. At this moment, I have 21,708 unread emails and 32,320 photos clogging it up. My iCloud storage is gravely full. But perhaps most troubling — to me, at least — is the amount of time I spend scrolling on the thing.All of which is why I’m excited to kick this off today: our three-part series on how to use your phone better. Over the course of three Sundays, I’ll share some tips (backed by Wirecutter’s heroic-to-me tech experts) to help you get the most out of what is likely your most-used gadget. I’ll embark on my own journey right alongside you — tackling all these challenges with my iPhone 16 in hand. I hope that at the end of this series, we’ll all feel like we’re using our phones a little better, with a little more intention, and a bit more like, well, a tech expert would.