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Light dimming like "f.lux" on iOS 8!

sabankuru said:
Hello world, there is a way to dimming the backlight quickly:

1. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Zoom -> Enable Zoom. Tap the screen with three fingers thrice.
Press 'Choose Filter' > 'Low Light', Chose Zoom Region to "Full Screen Zoom".

2. Settings -> General -> Accessibility -> Accessibility Shortcut (It's on the bottom) -> Set to "Zoom"

After that, if you click the home button triple, you can dimm the screen quickly!
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I think one other thing you might want to do, after triple tapping the screen with three fingers, (unless you actually want the zooming as well), is to drag the zoom all the way to the left so that no actual zoom happens and only the filter gets applied.

It's a nice addition/alternative to using Invert Colors and/or Grayscale mode and/or the Reduce White Point option in Accessibility > Increase Contrast (which has much less of an effect).
 
Just wanted to say thanks again to the OP. I used this yesterday to get the brightness on my phone really low. It worked a treat during our autumn faculty and staff meeting yesterday afternoon, allowing me to watch the Royals game with the TBS app on the sly.

My wife also thanks you. She has always wanted an even darker setting for reading when in bed, especially on the iPad!

It's quite rare that there is an iOS tip that I don't know. Is there anything else neat that you can do with the accessibility settings in iOS 8? I've always used the LED flash for alerts setting, but haven't really toyed around with anything else.
 
Having actually used it in a dark environment at night I kind of found myself straining harder at times to make out text on the screen as the contrast was quite low and things blended in a bit.

Sometimes it might be a bit of a comfort call between straining harder to make things out with this dimming filter vs. having things a bit too bright in a dark environment without this dimming filter.
 
poppy10 said:
Not really anything like f.lux, which automatically dims the screen depending on your timezone and daylight savings settings.
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Leaving aside that you described f.lux incorrectly - it tints the screen yellow, it doesn't dim it - you've basically just said, "something that lets me dim my screen is not really anything like something that dims my screen at set times."

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C DM said:
I think one other thing you might want to do, after triple tapping the screen with three fingers, (unless you actually want the zooming as well), is to drag the zoom all the way to the left so that no actual zoom happens and only the filter gets applied.

It's a nice addition/alternative to using Invert Colors and/or Grayscale mode and/or the Reduce White Point option in Accessibility > Increase Contrast (which has much less of an effect).
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You use the option that lets you apply the zoom to the full screen.
 
tj22 said:
Leaving aside that you described f.lux incorrectly - it tints the screen yellow, it doesn't dim it - you've basically just said, "something that lets me dim my screen is not really anything like something that dims my screen at set times."

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You use the option that lets you apply the zoom to the full screen.
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Right, that's basically what I referred to as perhaps being something worth including in the OP.
 
I'm totally not finding "choose filter." I reread over and over again how to do it but I am stupid. Please help? I know how to three finger zoom. I just can't find the filter option. Oh my I am stupid.

Edit: nevermind I found it. Wow it is amazing. I begged for this last year. I guess someone at Apple actually does pay attention. Thank you Apple from me and from all the night people. This changes everything for driving at night with the phone on the dash. And a special Job Well Done to the coder for this feature.

PS It was the "three finger triple tap" that I needed to make it work.
 
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It's interesting that they have this as some filter for zoom (even though it's not really related to zoom specifically) and don't have a separate option to just use/enable it (like they do for Invert Colors or Grayscale, for example).
 
Light dimming like "f.lux" on iOS 8!

Dude!

This is miles better than triple click to invert.

Thanks!

C DM said:
It's interesting that they have this as some filter for zoom (even though it's not really related to zoom specifically) and don't have a separate option to just use/enable it (like they do for Invert Colors or Grayscale, for example).
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It's almost like someone on the team couldn't get it approved and snuck it in. Definitely top 5 new iOS 8 feature, I would have upgraded just for this!
 
This is neat. Does anyone know if it is lowering the backlight or just applying a darkening filter? Would this be a way to extend battery in a pinch for example?
 
ElectronGuru said:
Dude!

This is miles better than triple click to invert.

Thanks!




It's almost like someone on the team couldn't get it approved and snuck it in. Definitely top 5 new iOS 8 feature, I would have upgraded just for this!
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You may be right. I think this is tip of the year!!! OP should get a medal for finding it, and the programmer that snuck it in, deep in the basement of Apple, probably in chains and being tortured right now, should be set free.
 
Paddle1 said:
This causes animation stutter on my phone, so it may cause worse performance.
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For the purposes that a lot of people might end up using it occasionally (in the dark at night for example) chances are animation performance won't be something they would care that much about.
 
Very cool. I like that with a quick triple tap, I can dim my device to a level that is even dimmer than the original brightness slider.

Thanks!
 
TOP iOS 8.1 tip

Thanks for sharing! :cool:
I can confirm this still works with iOS 8.1 too :D
 
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