Night Shift

According to a new study from Brigham Young University published in Sleep Health, Apple’s Night Shift feature in iOS, that adjusts the screen’s colours to warmer hues after sunset, does not help users sleep better. After Apple’s introduction of the feature back in 2016, Android smartphones also started adding some sort of night mode function...

Sleep researcher Roy J.E.M Raymann, the man behind sleep features on Apple devices, including Bedtime and Night Shift, has left the company to focus on a new start-up focused on tracking sleep. Raymann, who first joined the Cupertino company from Phillips Research in 2014, joined Apple's growing health team to focus on using mobile technology...

Yesterday, Apple released macOS Sierra 10.12.4, and included with it a new feature called Night Shift. According to the company, Night Shift is for “automatically shifting the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum after dark,” to help you get a better night’s sleep. Many have already been using a similar...

Earlier today, Apple released new beta versions of its operating systems for developers, as we saw iOS 10.3, macOS 10.12.4, tvOS 10.2 and Xcode 8.3 get released. New within macOS 10.12.4 beta is Night Shift, which first debuted on iOS 9.3. The feature changes your monitor colour to warmer tones, in efforts to help you sleep...

Introduced with iOS 9.3, "Night Shift" is a feature that uses the device's clock and geolocation to automatically determine it is sunset and then automatically shift the colours of the device's display to the "warmer end of the spectrum". It currently works with the iPhone 5s or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air, iPad mini 2 or later,...

With the release of iOS 9.3.1, Apple disabled the ability to keep Low Power Mode and Night Shift on simultaneously. The initial workaround used Siri to enable both features at the same time. Today, 9to5Mac has posted a new workaround that works on iOS 9.3.1, but it is not as straightforward as the workaround for...

According to a new report from MacWorld, there is no conclusive evidence that shows a mobile screens’ colour temperature is the real culprit that keeps you up at night. In iOS 9.3, Apple added a new feature called Night Shift that will adjust the colour temperature of the display based on the time of day....

Night Shift Mode in Control Center would be really handy, don’t you think? Apple Canada’s iOS 9.3 Preview page thinks so, as it hints at the toggle on the webpage, as spotted by a Reddit user (via 9to5Mac): As you can see in the image below, on the iPad, it shows the Night Shift toggle in...

With iOS 9.3, Apple introduced Night Shift, a feature which is designed to cut down on nighttime blue light exposure from iOS devices to encourage better sleep. Its similarity to the popular f.lux app for Mac did not go unnoticed, especially since Apple put a stop to an f.lux for iOS app just two months...

Earlier today, Apple released iOS 9.3 beta to developers, bringing improvements to a range of stock apps along with some brand new features such as iPad's multi-user support for Education. Another great new feature detailed by Apple on the iOS 9.3 preview page is the “Night Shift” mode, which appears to be quite similar to that of...