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I'm currently going greyscale and have not noticed many differences in my habits. In the past week I've been using YouTube less but my YouTube habits have always ebbed and flowed. I'm reading the news apps on my phone slightly more.. greyscale makes articles have a dead tree newspaper feel with the black and white photos. Google maps is noticeably more difficult to use and so is Google calendar, which categorizes events by color.

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I'm wondering if personally keeping track of it somehow skews the statistics. Maybe the change is significant but overall not that big something like ~10%

I would be interested in cranking through the data myself to see how my phone statistics change vs others. If there was a way to time activities spent in apps...

I think that for those that go for the visual experience this may detract them. But I go for the text experience, so..

Yeah, I thought about doing this...but then I realized I've already cut back the behaviors this is trying to control, or never adopted them in the first place (I was a late smartphone adopter and have had most notifications disabled for as long as I've had one).

This grayscale challenge seems more to help phone addicts break their habit, but seem to do much if you aren't one and/or don't use social media apps.

Don't get me wrong, I really like the idea. I'd probably do it if I could selectively enable color only for certain utilitarian apps, like my Camera and photo-viewer.

on iOS you can make it so when you triple click the home button (or the side button on the X) you can toggle color filters

I have a Pixel and when I tried it I had to dig into the developer settings. Phone addiction isn't a big problem for me so only a more polished solution would make sense.

I'd really like something like the pre-existing app-specific settings like Android has for notifications and permissions.

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