dumbifying my iPhone 5s to stop myself from doomscrolling.

i've been getting tired to constantly scrolling through youtube shorts and instagram reels, so i decided to take this guy out of retirement to remedy that.

this is an iPhone 5s, w/ 16 gb of built in storage. believe it or not, this phone is getting on to 12 years of age.

to dumbify the phone, i turned the screen black and white, and inverted the colors. this makes it not worth using for consuming a lot of media.

all i need out out a mobile device is iMessage, apps for my high school, apple music, email, and talking to my friends. this phone delivers that in spades, and isn't even that's slow.

where this device slows down is where i want it to: on safari it loads wikipedia just fine, but can barely run youtube. i have instagram on there as well, but reels hardly load. messages are the key thing from instagram that i make use of, and that works just fine.

in short, this phone works great for all the productivity and communication stuff that i need to have access to at school, yet restricts me from using all of the video consumption sites of today. i reccomend this highly!