I wasn't clear, the phone on the left exhibits a predominant blue tint that my 5s doesn't have. I am aware of color theory but the photo depicts an iPhone with a blue tint colorcast. My iPhone is balanced at white on 8.3.
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iPhones are always too bright
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I wasn't clear, the phone on the left exhibits a predominant blue tint that my 5s doesn't have. I am aware of color theory but the photo depicts an iPhone with a blue tint colorcast. My iPhone is balanced at white on 8.3.
The phone on the left is a stock iPhone. Which is why I said it may just be the calibration of your particular display.
Thank you. A lot of people know about this, but most people do not know every nook and cranny of iOS. It's less work to set it up according to the link than to post about how much work it is.
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My wife's 5s display is calibrated similarly and looks like mine as well as the iPhone 6 I bought. Unless the white/grey point in the photo is off.
Many know about this. Good amount of discussion about it here some time ago too.
In the first post op is using phone at night and between the first post and your response, phone is not being used at night????
I love f.lux on the Mac and would absolutely love to have it on my iOS devices. I don't agree that the devices are too bright, but I definitely do want to reduce my blue light exposure at night.
Using it in direct sunlight to read and type this and can see the screen just fine even with sunglasses on that make it even dimmer (and certainly even brighter without sunglasses).
Since auto adjusted I never adjust the brightness and even with dark green polarized sunglasses the screen can be read whilst in direct sunlight. Yet in a dark room by activating the low level filter, the display is very comfortable to use.
That may be. I don't know much about the theory.
However, to my mind, it stands to reason that if blue light is dominant and most intense at noon and pretty much non-existant at midnight, then wouldn't you want a display that emulates that when you turn it on at midnight in a dark room?
Perhaps it is a myth, but this makes sense to me. And based on my own use I much appreciate the warm glow of my iPhone's screen at 2am then the harsh glare when f.lux is not installed.
Your experience may be different, but whether this is a myth or not is irrelevant. f.lux works for a lot of people.
At 2am it's not the blue light or screen coolness, it's the brightness. Using the low light filter reduces the intensity to a level that's comfortable.
Well, I guess it just comes down to personal preference then.
The warm orange glow f.lux give me is easier on my eyes than the blue light, no matter what brightness setting it's at.
But that's just me, so I will continue to use f.lux whenever my iPhone is jailbroken. Everyone else is different.
Blue is the most difficult color to see, as to the reason I can't remember. I believe red is the easiest color to see. My wife keeps telling me it's not good to look at your device right before you go to sleep...so she's read.