Probably because the libraries and framework that Apple's implementation uses are 64-bit ones.
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Apple Introduces New 'Night Shift' Feature in iOS 9.3
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Um no. Quite a few concepts have been. Multiwindow concepts, keyboard touchpad (Daniel Hooper), and plenty of jailbreak ideas have become part of iOS in the past few years. It's only natural for Apple to integrate an awesome idea and bake it in if it improves or enhances the experience.
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.
And who is to say that just because it could be made to work with 32-bit libraries that would actually be a good implementation of it? Perhaps it can but uses up more resources or requires more than potentially a more straightforward and more efficient less resource hungry 64-but implementation? Progress works out that way often. Things aren't just one thing or another, there is often much more nuance to it all and quite a bit more can go into decisions and reasons behind them.
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Opera mini in iOS has color temperature controls somehow?
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Yes, it's called night mode and you just need to access the opera mini options to active it
So far, it's been working on my iPad Pro just fine. Love it!
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Well, actually, I've benchmarked f.lux pretty rigorously on 32-bit devices too and it didn't cause any excess CPU usage.
Most certainly this 64-bit restriction one of Apple's steps to force people to upgrade hardware.
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Yup, just the usual Apple policy. "Our way or the highway."
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Well, actually, I've benchmarked f.lux pretty rigorously on 32-bit devices too and it didn't cause any excess CPU usage.
Most certainly this 64-bit restriction one of Apple's steps to force people to upgrade hardware.
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Yup, just the usual Apple policy. "Our way or the highway."
CPU is one measurement, but there is GPU, memory usage, battery usage, etc. as well. Even if f.lux's implementation doesn't do anything excessive it doesn't mean there couldn't be a better (perhaps in various ways) alternative implementation of it. Even simply going by technology and where it is, implementing a new feature would generally be done with the latest and greatest vs something older. It's not to say that something else can't be in play there, but it is to say that it's not clearly just one particular thing and/or one thing only.
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I was clear, the night mode its like the option opera mini use on their browser, and the screen show opera mini working on an iPhone 5S with iOS 9.2
Enjoy more restful browsing at night
Opera Mini’s smart night mode makes reading in the dark more comfortable. Toggle up or down to dim the screen, relieve your eyes and help you get healthier sleep and rest.
http://www.opera.com/mobile/mini/iphone
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I was soooo excited too (love f.lux), but I also love my iPhone 5—I've not had any good reason to upgrade yet (and which you also still seem to have). I hope I can find a way to get this to work.
If I understand correctly, this is like the night mode or dark theme many reading apps have? It's just a setting that works just inside the Opera mini app, correct?
Ok, well, f.lux and the new Night Shift mode changes the color temperature for ALL apps, as well as on the home screen. It's a system-level setting, not a per-app thing.
Probably was developed on 64-bit libraries/frameworks (most likely similar to content blocking in that sense).No iPhone 5 Support...How does this feature require 64bit???
I think that maybe is not a 64bit library issue but it may require the motion coprocessor introduced alongside A7.
With the motion coprocessor iPhone can realise whether you are currently on a bus/train/car or you are walking and may disable the night mode since you are not trying to relax in bed or on the couch.
That would be a good reason to require the latest hardware and I wouldn't complain, although they may support older devices with a manual trigger of the night mode without optimisations.
Under accessibility > zoom you can enable the low light filter, disable the zoom and hide the controls. Then you can select zoom at the bottom of the accessibility page for the three-press activation.
Don't know the exact translations of some menu items, but this should be close
I don't think night shift gets disabled like that. But who knows, maybe it's related to that.
Under accessibility > zoom you can enable the low light filter, disable the zoom and hide the controls. Then you can select zoom at the bottom of the accessibility page for the three-press activation.
Don't know the exact translations of some menu items, but this should be close
I do that too. The closest thing I could find to f.lux on a non-jail broken iPhone. I activate the virtual home button and use triple tap to access it when I am reading at night in the darkness of my bedroom.
Under accessibility > zoom you can enable the low light filter, disable the zoom and hide the controls. Then you can select zoom at the bottom of the accessibility page for the three-press activation.
Don't know the exact translations of some menu items, but this should be close
Tried it out and works great. Actually kind of amazed just how dark the screen gets compared to using the regular brightness slider. I'm wondering what's better- having all lights off and a super dim screen or having ambient light and a brighter screen. Obviously in the latter case you would have the screen brightness higher (and thus more blue light), but maybe this is offset by surrounding ambient light?
I also hope so. I am getting used to this yellow-color computer screen at night. It is not really easy to say it is good, according to my own experience, but this implementation is definitely welcome, especially from Apple.
Yeah, and one less reason to JB. More importantly, this one is a bummer for a good dozen of iOS users, including me.There goes my main reason to JB
So Apple want to show the world that Apple is still the biggest and the strongest tech company in the world.
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).
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).
Because that's not at all what f.lux (and Night Shift) does. Reducing the brightness will obviously reduce the amount of blue light but also all other colors equally leading to a very dim display, your eyes will adapt to this dimness and the brain will still experience it as daylight.
f.lux and Night Shift reduces the blue light while maintaining the intensity of other colors so that the display is still bright but the light is closer to the natural light at sunset.
I use the low brightness at nights as well but it's really no substitute for actual blue light reduction.