Diminish Distractions by Setting Your iPhone to Gray Scale When You're Home
Justin Pot
created: Sept. 20, 2025, 11 a.m. | updated: Sept. 24, 2025, 10:25 a.m.
Directions, photos, music, messaging the people you're meeting up with, or even just scrolling while you're waiting for the bus—it's all great.
Whenever we talk about how to break your smartphone addiction, a trick that’s commonly cited is to set your phone to gray scale.
Courtesy of Justin PotFor the first shortcut, which will trigger when you get home, search for the action Set Color Filters.
Add it and make sure that the shortcut is set to turn color filters On.
This will filter out onscreen colors and turn your display gray scale.
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