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Apple is Bringing Night Shift Mode To Its Desktop OS (macrumors.com)
Apple is bringing Night Shift, a feature aimed at changing the tone of the display to better suit the eyes at different time of the day, to its desktop operating system. From a report: macOS Sierra 10.12.4, seeded to developers this morning, introduces a major new feature: Night Shift for the Mac. Night Shift can be toggled on and off using the new Night Shift switch located in the Today section of the Notification Center.
Bye bye, fl.ux.
I suppose a good bit about this is that even the new MacBooks should have the horsepower to change the display color. Even if it has to calculate the time.
Leading edge here. The future's so bright that you gotta wear shades.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Wow, a single trivial feature that is already implemented in countless utilities being added to an OS deserves a whole story? Must be a slow news day.
and Sassie! I love all things Apple, to the core!
>> major new feature: Night Shift for the Mac
Quit dinking around, Apple. You're on the path to become the next Blackberry at the moment.
Now implement this in hardware with a light sensor instead of a switch the user has to push manually and you're almost as good as the notebook I just went and replaced with a newer model.
We used to have a Bill of Rights. Now, with the rights gone, all we have left is the bill.
I wonder how "creative" apps will handle this-- will they get an exemption from the red-shift policy, or a warning? What about clients? Should certain content be flagged as "color sensitive" and be displayed at a standard color profile despite the rest of the screen being red-shifted? I just spent a lot of time calibrating my displays with DisplayCal, dammit!
Serious question - no submitter is attributed in stories posted by msmash.
Poor Apple. Once a leader, now a me-too.
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just use f.lux to "yellow" your screen. Works on any OS and it's free.
...how hard it is to find a (free) red-wash theme that I could install for my (android) phone for use after dark.
The bright android screen (and even when dimmed, tends toward the blue-white color temp) is TERRIBLE for night vision.
-Styopa
I might get a mac just for this feature. It looks like it's much less strait on the eyes then f.lux's default setting.
It's called f.lux
What would be even better would be... links to medline/NIH/NEJM/Lancet papers indicating that the changing of colors is anything other than snake oil being manufactured by the people who brought you "Blue Blockers" sunglasses.
"Blue Blockers: For when you turn 50, take up golf, and wear white polyester pants pulled up to your armpits".
I found 15 medline articles on the idea -- all concluding that thecolor changes don't do dick. The one really reliable study -- the one on Navy pilots -- concluded that the color change *increased* alertness. Good luck getting to sleep more easily with *increased alertness*. Luckily, the same study also indicated that the effect was very short term.
https://justgetflux.com/
also available for Mac Linux iPhone/iPad Android
I'm elated but a bit skeptical Apple can get this right.
1. What's really needed isn't a diming of the screen. It's an entirely new UI, one that makes very dark what is otherwise very bright.
2. I hope they don't follow the silly idea that this diming should be linked to the sun's behavior. When I lived in Seattle, a program that did that was a disaster. In winter, it's getting dark a 5 p.m. and in the summer it stays like until 10 p.m. That's no way to live. This is 2017 AD not 17 AD. We live by the clock not by the sun.
F.lux and Redshift have been around for several years, and there have been X11 utilities to do this for as far back as I can remember. There are a lot of limitations to the technique, the only real advantage is that it is simple to implement.
I couldn't really stand the low contrast at night, it made many websites difficult to read. (some of them are already difficult enough because most web designers are bad at typography, art and color science)
I mean really a feature named after a 1982 movie where a couple of morgue workers turn the place into a brothel.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0084412/
>> Night Shift can be toggled on and off using the new Night Shift switch located in the Today section of the Notification Center.
Rather than have to manually turn it on/off, it seems like the much better approach would be to use a light sensor, or at least link it to the clock so it knows when its day/night. I agree that it should be manually overrideable though.
Apple's obviously overstaffed with useless humans that need to be purged from the company.
...and I just can't hide it.
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Make it automatic with no possible user override
The autism-hating, custom EpiPen-hating, Musk hating fucktard from Slashdot!
I've been using f.lux on my desktops and also the apple nightshift feature on IOS. it acts as a reminder that i should start winding down for bed, rather than forgetting and just working through the night by mistake. While i can disable the function any time (e.g. working on colour photos), i have anecdotally been sleeping far better with orange-shifted, slightly dimmed screens, because i do know when it's time to sleep, and the colour shift happens over the period of a couple hours so i naturally taper off shitposting, rather than just passing out at 5am after glimpsing the sunrise again. over the past couple years using f.lux I have greatly reduced insomnia, and have noticed i do go to sleep faster, and return to sleep faster if i happen to view a screen in the middle of the night.
I am glad this is being included on OSX becuase more people will benefit from this feature.
Glad Apple just invented this. Now when is the rest going to copy?
For you Linux desktop and laptop users out there, you probably already know about Redshift. Automatically and gradually changes your screen brightness and hue based on lat / long and time of day.
Have been using it for over five years now and it's amazing how much more relaxed I feel at night. Or, more succinctly, how much less my eyes bleed.
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