Georgia, writing for iMore:
With iOS 9.3 Apple is introducing a new feature called Night Shift. As the name implies, it shifts the color spectrum of your iPhone or iPad display at night. So, why is that important?
And:
We do most of our healing when we sleep. It’s when our bodies repair themselves and our minds process the information we accumulated during the day. Lack of sleep can have an extremely adverse affect on our mental and physical health. It can interfere with our brain’s ability to form memories efficiently and even reduce our immunity to disease.
That’s where Night Shift comes in. When you enable Blue Light Reduction in the Display & Brightness settings, it moves the color spectrum from cooler (blue) towards warmer (yellow).
Really interesting.
Explained: We saw this technology from a company called f.lux. They proposed adding the API to iOS. We did them one better and just stole the concept.
Such is life.
When you’re entire product can be reduced to a checkbox in the “Display & Brightness Settings” screen I think you’re on borrowed time.
While the reasoning is sound, the actual implementation is difficult, if not close to impossible. We are surrounded by screens, and having only one of them performing such an adjustment will not achieve anything. Neither my Watch, nor my iPad, nor my iMac, nor my TV set, nor my room lighting do adjust their color temperature. Having the phone, the device I look at the least, adjust only makes it look fake and yellow (and makes it harder to read, which, I would argue, has exactly the adverse effect, as everything requires more concentration).
I was running this (as a JB tweak), on my iPhone 3GS and mac, over 5-6 years ago.
Nothing innovating here.
they didn’t pioneer the concept either.
it’s a feature, not a business model.
iOS runs iPad. and you can get similar software for your macs. and your watch doesn’t generate enough light to require it.