Apple Introduces New 'Night Shift' Feature in iOS 9.3

[The Game 161]

I have it on every night now and it is a lot better and certainly battery wise.

 

[C DM]

I have it on every night now and it is a lot better and certainly battery wise.

Don't think the color temperature has any affect on the battery. Lowering the brightness certainly would, but not reducing the blue light itself (by making the color temperature warmer).

 

[mactipple]

Sorry for not wading through 9 pages of comments to see if this question has been asked, but in a way we already have a makeshift f.lux, don't we: why not just turn the screen brightness down like all the way???

That's what I do before sleeping at night and it seems to work great for me; the screen certainly is still on and not white (more of a beige tint).

The issue at hand is not screen brightness per se, it's about the blue light disturbing quality of sleep. Thus you need to change the colour balance to reduce blue light as much as possible.
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If f.lux can make it work using 32-bit libraries and thus support more devices, why can't Apple? There's really no good answer here, only "buy a new iDevice." The insulting part is how they're doing it with a simple-to-implement, yet highly-desired feature.

Yes I'm also confused as to why Apple can't implement this feature on older devices. As far as I know, all devices support modified display modes such as black and white, high contrast and reduced white point. So why is it so taxing for the same hardware to reduce the amount of blue?

 

[C DM]

The issue at hand is not screen brightness per se, it's about the blue light disturbing quality of sleep. Thus you need to change the colour balance to reduce blue light as much as possible.
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Yes I'm also confused as to why Apple can't implement this feature on older devices. As far as I know, all devices support modified display modes such as black and white, high contrast and reduced white point. So why is it so taxing for the same hardware to reduce the amount of blue?

More than likely the code is just not there as Apple made their implementation based on some 64-bit libraries/frameworks.

 

[Talukdar]

Actually, Apple introduces this feature to ease the strain on our eyes when looking at the screen at night. I have been using Apple products for last 4 years. I must say that it is a good initiative of Apple to prevent damage to the eye. But I don't like this yellow light. It's really irritating. So as a health conscious person, I am using "ocushield" screen protector to protect my eyes from harmful blue light.

 

[ElectronGuru]

Nice overview of the biological mechanism affected by nocturnal blue light. It's also a good example of apples ability to bring publicity to obscure issues:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/apple-s-night-shift-mode-how-smartphones-disrupt-sleep/

 

[tbrinkma]

It doesn't matter if f.lux is making money or not, they got it out first and changed the way users thought about blue screen and how to reduce impact on the circadian cycle.

What Apple did was a b---h move. Why block F.lux from going iOS and then do a 180 creating their own?

The iOS version used non-public APIs, something disallowed from the beginning.
It also required users to side-load the app by way of building an 'app' in X-Code that included their binary. That's a poor practice in the first place, and *also* disallowed by the developer agreement.

The iOS version was a neat technology demo, but it was *never* a practical implementation.

 

[myrtlebee]

I think it looks hideous. Not a fan of staring at orange-tinted screens. No thanks.

 

[C DM]

I think it looks hideous. Not a fan of staring at orange-tinted screens. No thanks.

Simply don't use the option.

 

[myrtlebee]

Simply don't use the option.

I won't.

 

[Night Spring]

I think it looks hideous. Not a fan of staring at orange-tinted screens. No thanks.

It does look awful, but my eyes feel better. Have no idea if it helps with sleep or not, but after a few days of using Night Shift, I definitely feel the glare if I turn it off.

 

[myrtlebee]

It does look awful, but my eyes feel better. Have no idea if it helps with sleep or not, but after a few days of using Night Shift, I definitely feel the glare if I turn it off.

It's a good option to have, no doubt. Just wouldn't want that much of a tradeoff personally.

 

[dannyhawaii]

Well, I logged the lack of support for 32 bit devices as a bug. I'd recommend anyone with an older iOS device join the public beta and do the same.

 

[Roessnakhan]

It's a good option to have, no doubt. Just wouldn't want that much of a tradeoff personally.

The only time I toggle it off at night is when I watch a video, but besides that yeah, it isn't much to look at, but my peepers are happy.

 

[crescentmoon52]

The issue at hand is not screen brightness per se, it's about the blue light disturbing quality of sleep. Thus you need to change the colour balance to reduce blue light as much as possible.
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Yes I'm also confused as to why Apple can't implement this feature on older devices. As far as I know, all devices support modified display modes such as black and white, high contrast and reduced white point. So why is it so taxing for the same hardware to reduce the amount of blue?

Well its time to jailbreak my old ipad 2..... for FLUX....