How to Turn Your Smartphone Into a Dumb Phone

Then, you request to adhd the acheronian Dumb Phone wallpaper (Wallpaper successful Settings), power to acheronian mode (Display & Brightness successful Settings), and crook disconnected location surface animations: From Settings prime Accessibility > Per-App Settings > Add App > Home Screen & App Library, past pat Home Screen & App Library and Reduce Motion, and acceptable it to On.

With each of that taken attraction of, you request to fell different location surface app shortcuts, which you tin bash by pressing and holding connected them, past choosing Remove App and Remove from Home Screen. You should beryllium near with conscionable your Dumb Phone widget and thing other connected a azygous location screen—though each of your apps are inactive disposable if you swipe near to get to the App Library.

Tap connected immoderate app listed successful the Dumb Phone widget itself, and it opens arsenic normal. You tin besides adhd a Dumb Phone shortcut to your minimal location surface and customize its look via the App Icon introduction connected the settings leafage for Dumb Phone. (Tap the cogwheel icon, apical left, to get to the settings.)

Other settings successful the Dumb Phone app fto you customize which apps are disposable done the widget and alteration the look of the widget itself—including the alignment of the substance and the spacing betwixt each shortcut. You tin besides swap the default white-on-black look for a black-on-white one.

In addition, the app gives you the enactment of creating abstracted profiles for your widgets—one for enactment and 1 for extracurricular of work, for example—which you tin rapidly swap betwixt arsenic needed. For the afloat dumb telephone experience, you mightiness privation to play astir with immoderate of the notification settings successful iOS too.

Android

For Android users, the Minimalist Phone app is 1 of the champion options disposable for this peculiar job. It'll outgo you $5 a month, though it's little if you wage for a twelvemonth astatine a time, and you tin get a lifetime's usage retired of the app for $30. There's besides a seven-day escaped proceedings that lets you spot if you find the app utile earlier paying.

Minimalist Phone is what's known arsenic a launcher: a benignant of Android app that wholly replaces astir of the interface, including the location screens and menus. It's a afloat reskin of your phone, and 1 that goes deeper into the operating strategy than thing that's imaginable connected iOS (but don't worry, you tin spell backmost to mean whenever you privation to with conscionable a fewer taps).