Want to avoid easy distractions when you pick up your iPhone?
Dumb Phone has your back by transforming it into a minimalist style phone to reduce phone addiction, swapping flashy icons / colors with a sleek and minimal Home Screen for accessing essential apps.
This removes the addictive dopamine from your phone which helps you think twice about why you just picked it up without realising, like we always do each day!
@wfltaylor Thank you for the support Will! π
Great to hear about the Set Up Guide too, I tried my best to make a lengthy set up process as simple as possible. Enjoy!
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That's great, there is no finally an option to make my phone as boring as possible! This is exactly what I need to stop getting stuck in to endless scrolling. Congrats on your launch!
@pqp_social Thanks Marcus! Hope you enjoy setting up and using Dumb Phone. It's been lots of fun making it and i'm so happy to see all the kind compliments for it. π
Cheers!
@swiftyalex That's so awesome to hear Alex, thanks for sharing! Hope you continue to enjoy using your new minimal home screen! π₯
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Overall: way too much work for me. While I feel like I need this solution, I also need it to be easier to implement. The onboarding screens were too dense and cluttered. And the final straw was immediately asking for money before I even used the product. Sorry, absolutely not for me.
@ivanisawesome Thanks Ivan! Appreciate the great feedback.
Unfortunately these are inherent limitations of trying to apply this kind of aesthetic on iPhone since iOS is extremely restrictive in how it can be customized. For e.g. on Android it's super easy to set a new custom launcher with a few taps and you're on your merry way.
Can you suggest any pointers how I could improve the onboarding screens? I've had strongly positive feedback for them so far, and you're surprisingly the first to actually have an opposite opinion of them!
I tried my best to simplify a tedious set up flow, including videos w/ text steps, but maybe there might be one or two things I could've paid attention to better?
Great shout about the paywall appearing in the onboarding flow also, thank you! π
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Congratulations on the fantastic launch of Dumb Phone, Michael! You mentioned that your screen time has significantly decreased since using Dumb Phone. How has the app quantitatively affected your daily screen time?
@jordan31 Thank you for the support Michael! π
I think the biggest win out of simplifying my home screen is that when I pick up my phone to do something i'm no longer inclined to naturally tap an app icon that generally delivers a dopamine boost, instead of performing the task I wanted to do in the first place.
It's a mental hack for me seeing "instagram" / "tiktok" in words, since my brain needs to first read the text i'm focusing on and decide whether to tap it.
Thus, no longer spending tens of minutes in irrelevant apps each time which compounds across the day.
Works a treat π
@richinapps Thanks Richard! π
Look out for the Dumb Phone icon at the top of the list above App Store and below Smart Stack. If you can't see it, you might need to restart your iPhone since iOS can be silly with showing new apps in the list. The trial is already activated upon install too.
Hope you enjoy setting it up once the widget appears in the list! π₯
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