Hands-On With the New Night Shift Mode in macOS Sierra 10.12.4

[bbfc]

I have a Late 2011 MacBook Pro with the developer build, but no Nightshift.

Does it only work on computers starting in a specify year? Thinking mine is too hold.

Thanks

Someone on another post has it working on a 2012 MBP, so I'm thinking that's the oldest it supports.

 

[roboclint]

Someone on another post has it working on a 2012 MBP, so I'm thinking that's the oldest it supports.

I was wondering about this too. Just installed the public beta on my 2011 iMac and the option isn't there. Pretty disappointed, was really looking forward to this... but it's also just the first beta so there's still hope.

 

[iammrdom]

I am excited about this feature, but I am afraid that my 2010 iMac might not cut it for this

It's ok don't stress. I'm sure f.lux will work just fine for you, if Apple chooses not to support your iMac.

 

[rueyloon]

useless if you are a photo/video editor

 

[godfather1972]

Is it available for the early 2015 MacBook Air?

 

[C DM]

useless if you are a photo/video editor

Can still be useful if you are using your computer in the evening or at night and not doing photo/video editing.

 

[Anonymous Freak]

They should include an option to include dark mode as a setting when night shift kicks in

That's one thing I like about f.lux - it supports per-app disabling, as well as auto-switching to dark mode when it kicks in.

Edit: Never mind. I could have sworn it did, but now that I checked the preferences, it doesn't. I work nights, so my system is on dark mode so often, I must have just not noticed that it doesn't switch back to normal mode during the day. Odd, I could have sworn f.lux supported this...

Thats crazy... I just installed the Beta; and there is no Night Shift for me. Not in Displays, and no toggle in Today section of Notifications. Also tried telling Siri to turn it on, and Siri responds she is unable to turn it on for my Mac....

Yeah, my 2011 iMac doesn't have it, either.

 

[ElectronGuru]

Couple of points for the doubters

This isn't a hypothetical idea. The earth changes from blue to yellow every dawn and every dusk

Our bodies are already configured to read the signals and adjust our sleep pattern to take advantage of them

Daylight beginning in the morning is blue. Our eyes adjust (again, twice per day), so we believe we're looking at white.

Running blue/daytime colors after sunset tricks your brain into thinking it's perpetual morning and that you should be wide awake. think: caffeine

If your body is used to running blue light after sunset, you can't just go full yellow. The feature has a slider because you need to gradually adjust

Start with the slider on the left, and move it one notch over every day or two. After a week or two even the far right shouldn't feel off

Once your eyes are trained to prefer the natural warm color after sunset, blue will appear harsh

This isn't all or nothing. Just like caffeine, blue light can be used when and where you want it. Need to cram for a test or finish a presentation, leave the blue cranked up

Our homes are filled with artificial light. If you have other lighting that is daytime/blue, this by itself will not be enough. To see if your Apple devices are keeping you up, you also need to turn off fluorescent and LED bulbs

 

[dingamahoo]

Thing is - f.lux lets you really crank up the orange - to the point it will cause artifacting in the white parts of TV shows (like the light panels in Star Trek: TNG will show up as a freaky pink). This is why Night Shift on the iPad and iPhone won't go too too low - Apple still wants everything to look good.

So I imagine Night Shift on the Mac will be the same - it'll help, but maybe not to the extreme that f.lux goes. I imagine that'll be fine for most people, but I might stick with f.lux for a while longer.

This is how I feel. Have noticed that a lot of blue spectrum remains on iOS in Night Shift. f.lux seems more thorough on the Mac.

 

[travelsheep]

7pm - 23pm f.lux. 23pm - 2 am redScreen

 

[Caesar_091]

Is Night Shift supposed to work on every mac that supports Sierra?
I just updated my mid 2012 Mac Pro to 10.12.4 but I have no night shift panel on System Preferences
If I try to enable it via Siri the answer is "I'm sorry but I can't enable Night Shift on your Mac".