Has anyone else intentionally lowered their phone's screen's saturation?
For a while now, I was getting micro-annoyed by all the "colour vomit" in my app drawer and on some modern websites and apps - even with my fairly minimal set of apps.
Thus, around a month ago, I spontaneously decided to reduce my screen's saturation by almost half... And it actually felt pretty natural! I stopped noticing it merely minutes later, and I still never notice it unless I look at another screen while using my phone or unless I'm trying to take a photo of something where colours are very important - like when I wanted to show someone my eyeshadow blend recently. Today, my partner and I were watching old pictures/videos of the cat, and she didn't notice the lower saturation either.
I'm aware someone on Tildes is using a phone in pure greyscale mode, but is anyone using the same "trick" as me? What are your experiences
I have my phone set to drop to grayscale when I should be in bed. It's really cut back on my phone keeping me up at night.
I just set this up last night. So far I think I like it. I have it do partial greyscale, so I see colors, just a bit desaturated. You can automate this fully with iOS shortcuts.
I have a pixel, it’s all in the settings.
Yes, I do complete grayscale and add a dark blue color filter on top of that to give it a "sci-fi datapad-esque" feel. I wish I had more control over the contrast, because the color overlay basically makes the OLED pointless, but still, I agree with you. You quickly forget about it and it makes browsing certain apps a lot less obnoxious and overstimulating.
Edit: I do wish I could do half saturation, but on Samsung it seems like its all or nothing unless I choose a specific tint for color blindness (ie. green-red, etc.).
That sucks! Not surprised they're missing a feature that most users wouldn't even think to manually fiddle with, though...
Tru dat. Story of my life honestly. Seems like I'm constantly wishing for features that would only appease my own idiosyncrasies 🫠
I also do a full grayscale. I need to turn it off occasionally for functionality, but I think it's effective at making me less likely to use my phone and for less time.
This sounds really cool! I’ve managed to dig out the setting on my iPhone (Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Colour filters) and I’mcurrently on about 50% greyscale. I wish it was possible to do the greyscale in addition to the colour filter like u/BashCrandiboot suggests, because that sounds bonkers fun!
I’ll report back about how I find the saturation alteration :)
ok, so I've been on and off of grey scale for a while now. I think desaturating is a perfect middle ground. with iOS I hit power three times to bring up a menu of accessibility things, so its quick to toggle.
Going back to normal really feels like the color vomit you mentioned. I wish I could desaturate everything.
I just go full sun down mode, turn off all the blue light from morning to night. It took a while to get used to, but now I like looking at my filmed south of the border filter screen. It's nice as I always avoid blue light before any sleep so I can lie that my sleeping problems are related to other things.
I've tried it several times, but I always wind up switching back because I want to see full color photos. Perhaps I should try setting the global color settings to greyscale, but configuring the photo and messenger apps to allow color?
I used to use extra darkening options apps for my Android. Now it's sorta built in, but I still don't really feel it quite works as well. But I definitely utilize "night light" and "extra dim" manage to hit the proper aspects, especially for nearing bedtime.
Night light reduces blue light for a red scale, and extra dim takes it down that other notch.
Also Android, and also the 2 features I use. I keep a very orangy night light (eye comfort shield) on almost all the time (except when I'm specifically looking at colours), and extra dim in low light.
I looked into the greyscale option, but i wasn't a fan of 100% greyscale and couldn't find a built in slider setting for it. I do think I'd enjoy a partially reduced saturation if it were an option.
I also intentionally choose a lower saturation mode. I hate the obnoxiously saturated colors that these phone manufacturers seem to think we want out of the box. But then I'm also a grey-background-in-dark-mode goblin.
I first learned about the iOS color filter accessibility feature because a colorwork knitting guide said it’s helpful for picking out yarns that complement each other well. I found that it made the screen easier on my eyes as well and ended up binding it to a triple-press of the lock button. I still switch it on every once in a while.
I use grayscale once I hit bedtime mode about an hour before I go to bed, works really well at switching me away from the phone.
Not exactly the same, but I specifically use minimalist icon packs that are only one color and remove the text labels because I think it gives a much cleaner look. The default android app drawer looks too much like an iPhone which in turn looks too much like a kids toy to me.
Not quite saturation, but I forgot my Kindle on a recent trip so was forced to read my book on my phone. The night-mode on my Pixel still wasn't enough so I wound up just cranking the hue all the way to red and lowered the saturation to get a really rather pleasant low-light reading experience. While the glossiness of the screen still bothered me a bit, it was an overall decent replacement.