The growing consumer interest in minimalist phones and digital disconnection is a genuine shift in behavior.

“But it's somewhere in 2025, it has felt to me like the tide is turning and there is not necessarily the Light Phone specifically, but this idea of wanting less phone. And I mean that in the broadest way possible seems to be real.”

Minimalist phones are an interesting alternative, but users can achieve a similar reduction in digital noise by configuring their current smartphone.

“Casey Johnston actually has a really good guide to dummying down your smartphone. So, kind of um you basically do almost like a hard reset. And you get rid of your apps and you clean it up and you make it just less um enticing.”