Apple Seeds First macOS Sierra 10.12.4 Beta With New Night Shift Mode to Developers

[liberte1776]

So APFS is not default on this version?!

 

[ErikGrim]

So APFS is not default on this version?!

Good lord no. It was only just enabled on an iOS beta.

 

[Wildkraut]

lol "includes Shanghainese dictation support"
Double meaning?

 

[szilske]

Any chance they finally fixed the issue with mail attachments using S/MIME?

 

[macintoshmac]

Night Shift, aka Jaundice Mode.

You nailed it diplomatically.

I was thinking "Yellow Fever"... "Night Diarrhoea"... "Hepatitis Returns"...
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Will there be any "night mode" emojis?

With Apple's focus and its penchant for detail, we might just have them soon.

 

[Quasselstripper]

Flux works great but I wouldn't mind it being built into the OS. Maybe there are advantages, especially for folks like me with somewhat older hardware. I wonder why it has taken this long to get it moved into macOS?

I really have problems with flux when white areas in pictures/movies are visible, the contrast is really bad (big white areas).

 

[Draeconis]

Can anyone with 10.12.4 see if it's possible to upgrade HFS+ to APFS on the boot volume?

 

[K4LK]

I have a mid-2014 15" rMBP with 30" cinema display connected via a thunderbolt to dual-link adapter. Night Shift works fine on both displays. On my mid-2011 MBA, the option does not appear in System Preferences > Displays

 

[Marx55]

Any scientific evidence about effects of Night Shift mode? Stop FUD!

 

[mmomega]

Can anyone with 10.12.4 see if it's possible to upgrade HFS+ to APFS on the boot volume?

Not that I can tell, it was one of the first things I looked for.
Well, looking to see if I could even format an external to AFPS, which you still can't do through Disk Utility. And I'm not interested in doing it through Terminal atm.

 

[C DM]

Any scientific evidence about effects of Night Shift mode? Stop FUD!

https://justgetflux.com/research.html

 

[Draeconis]

Not that I can tell, it was one of the first things I looked for.
Well, looking to see if I could even format an external to AFPS, which you still can't do through Disk Utility. And I'm not interested in doing it through Terminal atm.

Guessed so. They did say it was coming in "Early 2017" though. With Apple these days, perhaps it's better they take their time with this one..

 

[Shirasaki]

I will likely ditch f.lux for this. I imagine that Apple will be in a better position to offer this feature in an efficient way. f.lux also has longstanding issues that will probably never get fixed, such as the fact that shortly after a reboot or during a f.lux update, the effect is not enabled, and the flickering when switching to a full-screen game at a different resolution. Perhaps it will also work better with multiple displays.

Since flux is an app installed on a Mac OS X, it needs time to startup and must be closed before system shuts down.
I don't see the flickering you mention but on Windows, the transition process significantly drags down cursor movement speed for 20 seconds.

 

[Rychiar]

apfs?

 

[KALLT]

I don't see the flickering you mention but on Windows, the transition process significantly drags down cursor movement speed for 20 seconds.

I don’t even get it to work properly on either Windows or Linux. On Windows my pointer is somehow unaffected and stays white, which is terribly distracting. I did try fixing it by changing some registry entries pertaining to the pointer rendering, but to no avail. On Ubuntu and Arch Linux I just don’t get it to work at all. It speaks volumes for the flimsiness of the software. Ultimately, a feature like this belongs in the OS, where it is placed best. Microsoft is implementing a feature like this into the next content update of Windows 10 and on Linux you still have other options.

 

[mmomega]

Guessed so. They did say it was coming in "Early 2017" though. With Apple these days, perhaps it's better they take their time with this one..

Yeah I had actually completely forgotten about it until I saw it in the iOS release notes. Hoping this will be released soon.
I'm just interested in something newer, even if it will be set it and forget it.

 

[dgdosen]

I like it! I like and use flux, but I removed it from a laptop I installed the beta on. I like to declutter my menu bar.

 

[Shirasaki]

Microsoft is implementing a feature like this into the next content update of Windows 10

I know this is unlikely but I hope I could see it in the latest version of Windows Server. I want to upgrade my Windows 10 to Windows Server 2016.

 

[MacBird]

Available as public beta now, too, build is 16E144f

I haven't seen anything like this in System Report before:

 

[roguefury]

when i restarted my mac after the beta upgrade, it also ran some sort of file upgrade to mail. Anyone know what the new mail enhancements are?

 

[liberte1776]

I wonder why iOS getting APFS standard in 10.3 and this version of macOS does not?!
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Welp, there goes f.lux. I feel for them, but they also had an issue with whites blowing up on some (maybe specifically intel graphics) Macs, safe to assume this works better.

Though night shift on the iOS side was lacking in settings, maybe f.lux on Mac can compete on features.

Nice to see this finally get built-in, but sad to see such a delay between iOS features and macOS features! This is great for using the Mac late at night before bed, so transition to sleep happens better!

 

[C DM]

I wonder why iOS getting APFS standard in 10.3 and this version of macOS does not?!
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Nice to see this finally get built-in, but sad to see such a delay between iOS features and macOS features! This is great for using the Mac late at night before bed, so transition to sleep happens better!

Not ready for macOS yet?

 

[talmy]

I wonder why iOS getting APFS standard in 10.3 and this version of macOS does not?!

iOS is a simpler environment so is a safer place to introduce it. Major features are particularly advantageous when storage is tight, which it is more likely to be in an iOS device. For macOS you have to deal with HDD/SSD/Fusion, external attached drives (where you can already use APFS with some restrictions), RAID, and an open environment where unexpected (by Apple developers) operations are more likely to occur.