I created a shortcut to toggle grayscale for iOS. Try it out!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/371d5ced520d40e984d626ae304...

Since IIRC Shortcuts is actually pretty clunky, it's probably easier to use Control Center to toggle grayscale, which is possible after you add the control named "accessibility shortcuts" using {settings > control center}. That is what I use.

(And on Gnome, I use and recommend the following: https://extensions.gnome.org/extension/4012/gnome-bedtime/)

On iOS, you can also set up the “accessibility shortcut” (settings -> accessibility -> accessibility shortcut), which lets you triple-click the home button to enable it.

Thank you so much for this! Not having to dig through the settings to toggle B&W makes it much more workable.

You can also have the back tap (double or triple) run the accessibility shortcut.

I use triple-back for "grayscale" (because I found myself double-tapping the back accidentally all the time.)

You can also create automations to turn grayscale back off for apps that need it. I have ones for maps, photos and whatsapp (since people send a lot of pics in my group). They run when the app is activated/deactivated.

- The creator received a letter from YouTube's legal team regarding the GRJ app, which they claim violates YouTube's terms of service.

- The creator, representing Futo, responded by stating that the GRJ app does not use the YouTube API services and is therefore not subject to those terms of service.

- The creator expresses frustration with how YouTube and other platforms often arbitrarily delete creator accounts and content, threatening people's livelihoods.

- The creator sees the GRJ app as a solution to help creators connect with their audience even if their accounts are deleted from platforms.

- The creator is critical of how the more users are willing to pay for content and software, the worse the experience and more abuse they face.

- The creator shares a personal example of being unable to play downloaded YouTube content offline, despite paying for YouTube Premium.

- The creator is done accepting the concept that the more one gives, the worse the treatment they receive in return.

- The creator states they have the resources and intention to legally fight YouTube over the GRJ app, unlike "four kids in a college dorm room."

- The creator emphasizes that Futo is a serious company, not just a hobby project, and is willing to spend significant money on legal representation.

- The creator is committed to continuing to offer the GRJ app to serve their customers, despite YouTube's demands to cease and desist.

Presumably, this app, by Futo: https://grayjay.app/#sources

they incorrectly (malicious?) claim "available on fdroid" and point to a way to add their custom repository.

that's not cool. i would much prefer, since they are not two kids in a college dorm, they worked with fdroid to get properly vetted and included.

Having custom f-droid repositories isn't that unusual or necessarily malicious. For example the microG project has its own f-droid repo. iirc there's some overhead with getting something into f-droid since they have their own build process, versus just uploading an APK, which might be why they chose that.

https://microg.org/download.html

Just look at how out of date NewPipe is in F-Droid, it's maintainer just isn't motivated to get new versions of the app building on F-Droid's servers, leaving end users with a half year out of date client that is unreliable to use.

Not sure what you mean, 0.27.0 was released on f-droid last week, same as the latest github tag:

https://f-droid.org/en/packages/org.schabi.newpipe/

Scroll down the page please and note the prior F-Droid release was Version 0.25.2 (994) - Added on Aug 10, 2023

All of the v26 releases are missing. F-Droid's maintainers just did not build or publish these, leaving F-Droid users with a broken app since early December 2023 until 2 weeks ago, basically 5 months of shipping an app that did not consistently work.