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iPhone 16/Plus Does anyone actually use True Tone?
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I love it. The screen is too blue without it. I also use the warmest color temperature on my TVs as well. I find it much easier on my eyes especially at night.
I'm just glad Apple finally introduced the feature and saved me the trouble of applying that layer myself. It's not easy keeping a consistent diet for a consistent look.
Nope. I have Night Shift set to run from 9 PM to 7 AM, but I can't stand watching the screen's white balance change multiple times in one minute just because I'm in a place with inconsistent lighting.
I love it. I’m surprised people turn it off.
The warmer tone is much better for your eyes and sleep on evenings.
The warmer tone is much better for your eyes and sleep on evenings.
Agreed. I also love it. I work from home and also have Night Shift scheduled to make my screens even a bit warmer after the work day is done, which helps me keep work and home separate in my brain.
For True Tone: I always turn it off. I get the argument that a white piece of paper will look yellow in the right light, but a screen is not a piece of paper - it's a light source. Light sources don't do that, and so my brain notices something is off when light sources try to do that, because something is. I think my biggest issue with True Tone though is that I can't turn it on everywhere. So then some displays would have it and some wouldn't. And that would make it look even worse.
For Night Shift: There isn't clear evidence that disabling any particular range of blue light actually causes you to sleep better. I have by far the worst insomnia out of anyone I've ever met. For the past three days for example, I only managed to sleep 2 hours each day, from around 2am to 4am. The pattern will change randomly again beyond my control, or I'll just end up sleeping at completely different times each day for a while with no pattern at all. For the longest time I would wear "sleep glasses" at night that blocked blue light. The only thing it did for me was cause the worst depression I've ever had during times where I was awake mostly at night, and so I ended up getting rid of them. My mom used to use F.lux on her Windows computer but she gave up on that a long time ago.
For Night Shift: There isn't clear evidence that disabling any particular range of blue light actually causes you to sleep better. I have by far the worst insomnia out of anyone I've ever met. For the past three days for example, I only managed to sleep 2 hours each day, from around 2am to 4am. The pattern will change randomly again beyond my control, or I'll just end up sleeping at completely different times each day for a while with no pattern at all. For the longest time I would wear "sleep glasses" at night that blocked blue light. The only thing it did for me was cause the worst depression I've ever had during times where I was awake mostly at night, and so I ended up getting rid of them. My mom used to use F.lux on her Windows computer but she gave up on that a long time ago.
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I use true tone, but never night shift. True tone is great, makes my screen look pretty uniform across all sorts of lighting conditions.
I use a combo of reduce white point and Night Shift (low setting). True Tone is a bit much for my taste.
As a media consumer, I'm a fan of both features.
As a media creator, I have to turn both features off to edit photos and videos and get the colors correct.
I wish Apple would make a simple on/off for both that's accessible in Control Center, or provide API so applications like Lightroom and Photoshop could turn them off.
As a media creator, I have to turn both features off to edit photos and videos and get the colors correct.
I wish Apple would make a simple on/off for both that's accessible in Control Center, or provide API so applications like Lightroom and Photoshop could turn them off.
Long press the brightness slider; there’s buttons for toggling Dark Mode, Night Shift, and True Tone. On a Mac click in the area of the Display slider for the same thing.
You can also use Shortcuts to toggle them, which might be worth looking into for use with specific applications.
Wow, that's awesome, thank you!!! On my iPad, holding the Control Center WiFi button invariably causes WiFi to turn on and off when I release my finger, even though I've gotten the popup and should be able to let go and pick from the popup, so I basically forgot about holding anything in CC and never even tried
The setting should read like this instead:
False Tone
Manually adapt iPhone display while disregarding ambient lighting conditions to make colours appear inconsistent in different environments.
False Tone
Manually adapt iPhone display while disregarding ambient lighting conditions to make colours appear inconsistent in different environments.
I just looked and it’s on for me. I tried turning it off but it looked like I was staring at an old school cool white fluorescent light bulb 😂
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This made me think of what seems to be a trend in North America at least with street lightning and vehicle headlights. OMG, they use these very ugly bluish white LEDs and it's supposed to signal contemporary and/or high-end. To me, they signal idiocy.
We have for a VERY VERY long time known that very white light used at night doesn't actually help because it does not create enough contrast for the human eyes, and instead it makes things look washed out and therefore HARDER to see and more glare-y! WHY OH WHY have we gone this route?
We now have people complaining that these vehicle lights create too much of a glare for oncoming drivers, and even getting environmental reports about these updated streetlights that it's creating too much brightness to be healthy for human and non-human animals.
Sometimes we humans are so idiotic. We've known ALL of these issues before. It's not like we didn't know about them. And yet, in the speed to be seen as updated and contemporary, we install all these ugly overly white/overly bluish white LEDs everywhere.
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True Tone is Apple's best stolen idea (F.lux plugin did it, before it was baked into the OS). Those who have it enabled probably only notice it if their home lights are a 'strong-daylight' color of blue light. A lot of homes have bulbs that are warmer colored (fire-colored) at night, and that's where the True Tone really pays off.
I forgot it was a toggle, so I tried turning it off. That lasted all of 5 seconds. Hideous blue cast to everything without it.