Re:Turn Your iPhone into a Dumb Phone
by cricalix on Sunday May 26, 2024 @07:12AM
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You can make the greyscale toggle on triple power/home button, or via control centre. Thus, you can have it on most of the time, toggle it to look at a map, then toggle it back.
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That’s a perfect solution for me, thanks for the idea!
I made a Shortcut for it and added it to the home screen. I found the triple click too fiddly, and the control center option to be not present enough.
You can also have a Shortcut that toggles the setting when you open and close specific apps.
I just did it and it’s very simple:
- in the Shortcuts app, go to Automations
- add a new one and pick “App” as the trigger
- choose the apps you want color in and pick “run immediately” and on open and close
- on the next screen pick “new blank automation”
- in the new shortcut add “Set Color Filters” and set to toggle
You can also make different automations for open and close, but toggle works as long as you toggle the effects manually. But in this case you can just toggle it back manually.