F.lux night shift11/11/2023 ![]() With a little self experimentation, you can prove it to yourself. The silly-looking orange Uvex glasses are an actual filter that is far superior. These apps are great but not nearly as effective as a true filter. You can’t fix a hardware problem with software. Screens are always emitting some degree of blue light due to bleed through from the back-light. The problem lies with the screens themselves. They reduce or (on the highest settings) cut out the color blue. They are not nearly as effective as a proper filter That way your home lighting can shift in sync with your screen! I have not tried this feature yet but it seems pretty awesome. ![]() The newer version of the app can even sync with the Phillips Hue lighting system. You can turn it further to the red as you become accustomed to it. Most people start with a mild color setting at first. Of course people doing design work or other color sensitive work may not be able to use it. Once you get used to the colors, most people love the app and won’t go without it. As the evening wears on, the color shifts to amber/red over the course of an hour. In the daytime your screen is in full color spectrum. The idea is to match the color of your screen to the color of the ambient lighting. You set it to your time zone and the degree of color shift that you want and it does the rest. F.lux and other screen “filter” appsį.lux is a free app that automatically shifts the color of your screen to a reddish amber color as the sun goes down. Most people believe that is all they need to do. Apple now has Night Shift built in to their latest operating systems. F.lux is a very popular app for PC users. Most articles now recommend installing blue “filtering” apps. That’s great advice, but not practical for many people. The standard advice is no screen-time an hour or two before bed. These are compounded by lack of quality sleep. Circadian dis-regulation and chronic melatonin depletion have very serious health consequences. And it’s not only making it harder for us to fall asleep. Shining blue-rich light into our eyeballs at night is screwing with our body’s timekeeping mechanisms. It turns out that light at the blue end of the spectrum is how our bodies track what time of day it is. These screens that we’re staring into, emit large amounts of blue light. It seems that every week there are new studies and news articles about the dangers screen use at night. And at least the makers of F.lux have the right attitude about it: if it helps people sleep better and live healthier lives, they seem happy for Apple to make their software obsolete on iOS by baking it right in.F.lux, Night Shift, and other screen “filter” apps are not the solution to circadian disruption and poor sleep. ![]() It seems a little dicey of Apple to steal F.lux’s functionality and bake it right into iOS, but this would hardly be the first time Cupertino has done something like this. In early December, F.lux released a sideloading version of the app that would work on iOS 9 without a jailbreak, but Apple asked them to take it down… possibly because they knew they would be releasing iOS 9.3 imminently. There is not one right answer for everyone, so we are committed to making software that’s ever more adaptive and responsive to each individual’s needs. We’ve learned that people’s lives, biology, and everyday routines are incredibly, wonderfully different, and these differences must be embraced. Today we call on Apple to allow us to release f.lux on iOS, to open up access to the features announced this week, and to support our goal of furthering research in sleep and chronobiology.Īs we continue to innovate and improve upon our ideas, we remain hopeful that we will have the opportunity to offer our best, new work to everyone who wants it. That said, Herf says that he wants Apple to allow him to bring F.lux to iOS properly, something that is currently not possible because the App Store will not allow access to the lighting API. In a statement on the official F.lux website, Michael Herf writes that “Apple’s involvement in fixing this problem is a big commitment and an important first step.” ![]()
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