# Reduce visual app pull

Practice ID: 26
Topic: `attention` (attention: Boundaries that protect focus, presence, and deliberate use from digital pull.)
Added: 2026-09-01
Journey entry point: `reset` (Reduce the strongest default pulls and regain enough space to choose deliberately.)
Start with: `quick-win` (quick win)
Supports: `sustained-attention` (sustained attention; group: `daily-life` / My attention and daily life), `deliberate-technology-use` (deliberate technology use; group: `daily-life` / My attention and daily life)

## Pattern

Interfaces deserve less power to attract attention before a person has chosen what to do.

## Practice

Move high-pull apps away from the first screen and reduce their visual emphasis. Use monochrome icons when the platform supports them.

## Start small

Move the app that pulls you most away from the first screen.

## Watch out

Visual changes create a pause. A clear decision about whether the app belongs still matters.

## Concepts

- [intentional friction](https://live.freewith.tech/concepts/intentional-friction.md): A small obstacle creates time to reconsider an automatic digital action.
- [phone dumbification](https://live.freewith.tech/concepts/phone-dumbification.md): Deliberately reduce a smartphone to chosen roles so it behaves like a focused utility.

## Continue

- [See more in attention.](https://live.freewith.tech/?topic=attention#practices)
- [Journey](https://live.freewith.tech/journey.md)
- [Concepts](https://live.freewith.tech/concepts.md)
- [Complete agent-readable database](https://live.freewith.tech/llms.txt)