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I've used MDM to make my iPhone dumb. It's great! I wish there was an easy way to publish my configuration so others could use it / adapt it, but it's a little involved because you have to wipe your phone the first time you set it up with configurator.

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I did that when I had an iPhone, I agree it was excellent. More people should do it.

Looking forward to MDM support on GrapheneOS.

Supervised devices cannot be backed up and restored to supervised devices. You can only backup/restore to an unsupervised target. If you want supervision, you have to abandon your backup.

It sucks.

Is that iCloud iPhone backup and local backups?

I don’t use iCloud, so I don’t know.

Can't you use a config profile and enroll it ?

I’m curious about this, what did you do to make it dumb?

This might be how they did it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45171200 iPhone dumbphone 10 months ago 399 comments

Interesting. But the list of apps on there is huge! Is it really still a dumbphone? Tha just looks like the apps I already have on my phone, and I still feel like I use my phone too much. What other apps do people have that are so addictive? Games, socials?

I used Apple Configurator on my mac to supervise my iphone. Once that's done, you use configurator to add a profile to the device that (1) contains an allowlist of apps that can be used and (2) an empty allowlist of websites that can be visited. #1 means you can't use any new apps, and #2 prevents the ability to browse the internet by sending links to yourself in e.g. messenger or whatsapp.

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