Comment by shant_extry

I think it was here on HN but someone said they put their phone on grayscale. His thesis was that making the phone experience less pleasurable to use (whether visually or practically clunky) to counter the fact that the smartphone experience is so smooth and beautiful, helped him to just not look at it. I started using the grayscale method and it actually worked for me. When I unlock it out of boredom I almost immediately put it back down, and when I pick it up for something I actually have to do - whether messaging someone or whatever - I don't care that I'm looking at grayscale.