One of the most prominent and controversial novelties, the second because it will not be available for non-64-bit devices, which will arrive with iOS 9.3 is what Apple has called Night Shift. This "night change" modifies the colors of the screen of our iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad so that there is less blue, so that our body understands that it is already night and thus respects one of our circadian cycles, allowing us to sleep better. But can we have the same function on our Mac? The answer is yes, and the necessary software is the same that non-64-bit iOS devices will use, as long as they are jailbroken.
If you don't know what I'm talking about, it's about f.lux. Although what Apple says on the Night Shift presentation page is true and many of us have learned about this thanks to the betas of iOS 9.3, it is most likely that the company that Tim Cook runs has been based on the f.lux application to create your own system. The operation in iOS is very similar, with the difference that Apple has added its Night Shift in the settings with a design much more in line with the company, but both change the colors of the screen automatically depending on when it gets dark in a zone.
How to have Night Shift in OS X
It couldn't be simpler, but we detail it step by step:
- We open Safari and go to the page justgetflux.com.
- We click on Download f. lux.
- We go to the Downloads folder and double click on the file flux.zip to unzip it.
- Now we just have to drag the Flux file to the Applications folder to install it.
How to use f.lux
Using f.lux is also very easy. In fact, as soon as you open it, it is already configured to work, but we can always modify some values according to our preferences.
- Perhaps the most interesting is what is marked with Number 1: start f.lux with the computer. This type of application is designed to be used without us noticing it, so I have it marked.
- So that f.lux knows when it gets dark in our area, it checks it using the Internet. Therefore, in the section that is marked with Number 2, our GPS coordinates. If they do not appear for any reason, we just have to touch on the compass icon or search our area.
- We can also tell you what time we get up, but this only modifies the drawing that tells us how the colors on the screen will be during the day. I have left it there as it was.
- We have three tabs: Daytime, Sunset, and Bedtime. These tabs are just so we can see the color it will change to at those hours. The above capture does not pick up the colors, but it should be more orange. If it is not the color we want, we can modify the values either by moving the slider or by displaying the menu recommended colors and choosing a pre-configured tone.
And the good thing about f.lux is that it is also available for Windows and Linux. So now we have no excuse to respect this circadian cycle. With f.lux and Night Shift we will start to sleep better. What do you think?
Then they say that it is google who brings features to android from ios hahaha when it is apple who brings them to ios from android, the funniest thing is that it is one of the most outstanding novelties in ios 9.3 and something old for us in android.
No version of Android has this by default, f.lux however has its application for Windows, Android, OS X and until recently iOS, if Apple has copied someone this time it has been to f.lux, not Google, and f.lux is Open Source.
Samsung tablets bring it by default as reading mode. Cyanogenmod brings it, that is, all phones that are sold with cyanogenmod have it by default. After so long apple integrates it in ios 9.3 and they don't copy to android hahahaha. They are like the dog's tail hahaha always behind.
And as far as I know, the reading mode is found in the Samsung from the galaxy s4 (2013).
Hello, Eximorph. From what I have been able to see, it has absolutely nothing to do with it. It is not that it changes the colors so that we can read better, it is that it changes the colors to indicate to the body that it is night. That's what a "circadian" cycle is all about.
The question is the following: if we look at a screen with blue colors (normal), the body understands that it is daytime even if it is 23pm. The body does not prepare for the night and then it is more difficult for us to sleep. If the screen changes these colors, it does not fool the body, but rather that it "knows" that it is night, prepares for sleep and then we sleep better.
That reading mode that you mention, I have been using it in Safari since I use it, both in iOS and OS X.
A greeting.
the same thing that cyanogenmod does. It is used to sleep better or read better both during the day and at night, it is still the same concept and apple continues to be motivated by everything that android has.
It has nothing to do with it, I repeat. What you say is that the screen changes to better see the texts. What f.lux (and Night Shift) does is remove the blue colors from the screen so that the body knows that it is night. Said wrong, but just so you understand, if those colors do not change, at night we have a little Jet Lag. What is intended with these color changes is that the body knows that it is being done at night. If you look at a normal screen, for the body the night begins the moment you stop looking at it. At the very least, it takes you an hour longer to fall asleep. It has nothing to do with seeing better the screen and the texts.
A greeting.
I edit my comment: the Cyanogen thing is LiveDisplay. As I have read, it is the same. They confess that it comes out of f.lux and arrived in 2015, not 2013. The Samsung thing is the Reader view that Apple always uses. In any case, f.lux predates both and is ahead for jailbroken iOS. Hence, Apple "once again relies on the jailbreak," not Android.
Eximorph, android and especially Samsung has not invented anything in life. Google made android based on unix, which has been around since the 70's, and samsung is only dedicated to taking the best of all brands and putting them together into a malfunctioning device.
You kind of are a little confused. You just have to look and compare windows mobile standard with android to realize how similar they have one to the other. Going back to what I said earlier, it doesn't matter what Apple uses it for, it's the same concept. Apple continues to be inspired by android.
Apple is inspired by the jailbreak. 2009 https://justgetflux.com/news/2016/01/14/apple.html and since then it's on iOS.