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I don't know what I'd use this for, but the pictures are hitting that part of me that loves grayscale Palm devices really, really hard.

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I totally understand that!

In fact, this comment made me remember that I’ve had a color filter accessibility setting in iOS that lets me turn the screen to grayscale.

Kind of a trip to use a modern smartphone like this, but also kind of… relaxing in a weird way.

Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Text Size -> Color Filters

You can even set a shortcut to quickly toggle them on and off.

I have mine set to a red filter and assigned it to a double tap on the back gesture, which is a blessing at night in complete darkness!

I wrote a Shortcut that triggers this when I enter work mode, which triggers automatically on a schedule. So, during work, my phone is a more boring grayscale device with a limited set of apps readily available -- super helpful for reducing distractability. When work mode exits, so does grayscale!

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