Welcome to the Simplify your iPhone Mini-Course!

Lesson 1: Simplify Your Home Screen

Let’s clean up and simplify your Home Screen. Instead of icons, images and flashy colors — we’re going for a minimalist, text-only design. Follow the steps below to make your iPhone look like this:

Step 1: Download and save these backgrounds to your Photos album

Light Mode Wallpaper

Dark Mode Wallpaper

Step 2: Download the Minimal Phone Launcher App

Step 3: Watch the set up video and follow along on your iPhone.

This simple trick makes your phone instantly less tempting by putting it in black and white. Scrolling suddenly feels boring—in the best way—while you still keep access to the apps you actually love.

If having your phone in grayscale 24/7 feels like too much, watch this short video to learn how to automate it to go gray at night and back to color in the morning.

Lesson 2: Go Gray!

If you’re going for the full ‘Dumb Phone’ or ‘Palm Pilot’ experience, and want your phone in Black and White 24/7, skip to minute 5:30 in the video or follow the easy steps below:

  1. Open your iPhone Settings

  2. Use the search bar to find Color Filters

  3. Toggle Color Filters ON

  4. Select Grayscale

  5. Turn Intensity all the way up

That’s it! Your phone will now stay in black and white 24/7.

Lesson 3: Turn your Phone into a Productivity Tool

In this lesson, you’ll learn how to:

  • Block distracting apps using the ScreenZen app — keeping all the functional tools (Maps, Music, Email, etc.) while blocking anything flashy, scrollable, or distracting

Tip: Read through all the instructions BEFORE watching the video.

Step 1: Download the ScreenZen App

Step 2: Allow Notifications & Skip Setup Wizard

  • Allowing notifications helps the App function properly.

  • Don’t follow the default setup. Just skip through and follow the settings below.

Step 3: Choose between Day/Night Schedule or 24/7 Strick Block

Option 1: Create Daytime / Nighttime Schedules

  • If going Cold Turkey feels too intense, you can start by creating a day/night schedule to ease yourself into it.

  • For this option, you may now watch the video below.

Option 2: Re-create a 24/7 Strict Block to Mimic “Dumb Phone” Settings

  • To put a complete block on all distractible apps, follow the steps below (see video for reference).

  1. Tap + New App Group → name it Strict Block.

  2. Add all non-essential apps/websites (Instagram, YouTube, Safari, Chrome, ChatGPT, etc.).

  3. Leave only essentials unblocked (Maps, Notes, Music, Banking Apps, Baby Monitors).

  4. Skip the “Pause for” section.

  5. Change Daily Goal → Always Strict Block.

  6. Click Save.

  7. Before moving to Step 4, go to your Main App Library and delete the apps you blocked (Instagram, Facebook, etc.). This way, even if you redownload an app, ScreenZen will still prevent access.

    • Keep in mind that some apps are not able to be deleted, such as Safari.

Step 4: Set Up the ‘Lock Settings’ Timer

  1. Open ScreenZen

  2. Click Options (bottom middle) → Lock Settings Timer.

  3. Start with 2–5 minutes to stop yourself from changing your rules.

Step-by-step instructions are in the setup video.

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