The author says she has always been skeptical about the idea that smartphones are highly harmful tools capable of creating addiction.

However, after realizing that she was spending too many hours on insignificant content, such as political and makeup videos on TikTok, she decided to try some advice she read in an article: set your phone to black and white.

Change has a surprising effect.

By eliminating the colors, the author immediately felt a strong reduction in the compulsive need to check her phone and experienced an unexpected feeling of relief.

The psychological impact is immediate and significant.

Start using your phone in a much more detached way.
He leaves it in another room, forgets to check it for hours, and puts it away immediately after using it.
The daily time spent on the smartphone drops dramatically by 40%, from over eight hours to around four hours and forty minutes a day.

source https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/25/opinion/smartphone-color-grayscale-addiction.html?

How to make it gray

iPhone (iOS)
➡️ Settings
➡️ Accessibility
➡️ screen and text size
➡️ Color Filters
➡️ Put Color Filters On
➡️ Grayscale

Android
➡️ Settings
➡️ Digital Wellbeing & parental controls
➡️ Wind Down
➡️ Enable Grayscale

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13 Comments

  1. Mah, lo uso tutte le notti dopo una certa ora. Anche se vedessi grigio di giorno lo userei ugualmente, non cambia molto

  2. Pale-Psychology-4989 on

    Combattere la dipendenza da smartphone disinstallando tutte le app che tendono ad inghiottirti la soglia dell’attenzione>>>

  3. Penso che la gente farebbe di tutto piuttosto che risolvere i propri problemi nella maniera più facile, tipo spegnere il telefono e amen.

  4. Cioè questa era scettica all’idea degli smartphone che creano dipendenza ma ci passava 8 ore al giorno? 

  5. 1) questo post mi sembra scritto da un bot…
    2) il mio smartphone galaxy S9, del 2018, aveva già questa funzione integrata come “bedtime mode” proprio per questo scopo. esistono altre app per ridurre la luce blu per la stessa ragione. insomma niente di nuovo.