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A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

For something like this on Android I've been using Twilight for years now.

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

I use that. It’s nice. I just wish I could mix it with black and white mode because the way the filter works makes blue things unreadable and it generally messes with color rendering more than it would need to.

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

There’s night shift by default in your iphone right? You can use the slider to make it more pronounced.

It only gives you a really light yellow-ish tint. It helps, but more tint (full red) helps more.

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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post #40

I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

I too have had a shortcut for “red filter” + “minimal brightness” + “reduced brightness” for years. I trigger it by a Triple back tap. Great for night usage with our eye strain or bothering your spouse

Could you share it?

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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This is such a clever way to automate so that the setup actually works. I just set it up, and wonder why the author didn’t set it up to trigger grayscale on app opening. I noticed that app switching also isn’t considered closing an app, so it seems most reliable to trigger on app open as well as close

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Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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I'm on a Pixel 10 for these instructions, not sure if other manufacturers offer the same options. Modes is an available option in the tile list. You can go to Modes, create a custom mode, and under display options you can set greyscale. You can also set modes to turn on automatically based on calendar events or a schedule. Notification tweaks are also available in the same area.

Yes, Modes / Display Settings / Greyscale. Having it in the tile list makes it super easy - make sure the Modes tile is near the top, so it becomes a single swipe to switch it on and off. But app contrast is generally better on Android than on iOS (in particular, Google Maps is perfectly usable in greyscale on Android) so you might find you don't need to switch it as often as you might think.

Agreed, it's pretty rare that you'll need to turn it off. The default theming color selection does a good job making sure that lightness is different, so virtually all not-completely-custom-styled apps work with all kinds of color blindness.
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