How to Change Your iPhone Display to Black and White (Grayscale)

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Last Updated: March 29, 2019 Tested

This wikiHow teaches you how to change everything on your iPhone's screen display to black-and-white (grayscale). You can easily switch to grayscale from your accessibility settings.

Steps

1
Open your iPhone's Settings app. Find and tap the
icon on your home screen to open your Settings.
2
Tap General in Settings. You can find it next to the
icon on the Settings menu.

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3
Tap Accessibility in General. This will open your accessibility accommodations on a new page.
4
Tap Display Accommodations in Accessibility. You can find it under the "VISION" heading here.
5
Tap Color Filters in Display Accommodations. This will open your color filter options.
6
Slide the Color Filters switch to
. This will enable color filters on your iPhone, and allow you to select one of the available filters.
7
Select Grayscale. This will instantly change your display to black-and-white (grayscale).
- You can toggle off the Color Filters switch anytime. Your display will instantly go back to normal.

Community Q&A

Question

How do I change black-and-white display to color?

Community Answer

General > Accessibility > Display Accommodations > Color Filters (ON). Should pop up a screen with color pencils and other demonstrations; you can also change the filter to only pass certain colors.