How To Stop Your iPhone From Destroying Your Sleep
If a phone screen is the last thing you look at before going to bed, you may be ruining your sleep.
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Screens emit bright blue light, which can suppress the production of a sleep-inducing hormone called melatonin.
Without melatonin to make you drowsy, you might be staying up too late. In the morning, you’ll feel tired without a full night’s rest.
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There’s a blue light-reducing app for computers calledF.lux and an Android app called Twilight, but nothing available for iPhones* …until today.
F.lux justgetflux.com
Twlight Google Play
*without jailbreaking them
At a media event on Monday, Apple announced the public release of iOS 9.3, which includes a new feature called “Night Shift” that will reduce your iPhone’s blue light when it gets dark.
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Night Shift is available for iPhone 5S or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, iPad mini 2 or later, and the 6th generation iPod Touch.
To get the feature on your iPhone, update to iOS 9.3 by opening Settings app > General > Software Updateor connecting your iPhone to your computer and opening iTunes.
(iTunes is usually faster than an over the air update).
Then open Settings > Display & Brightness > Night Shift.
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Slide to enable “scheduled” Night Shift, which will automatically turn on a warm display when you go to bed.
You can also tap the From/To arrow to set it to “Sunset and Sunrise.”
The iPhone will automatically enable Night Shift based on sunset/sunrise times in your location.
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Now, your iPhone will look like this when it’s dark out.
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If you select the manual setting, use the toggle to adjust the screen’s temperature.
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*without jailbreaking them
At a media event on Monday, Apple announced the public release of iOS 9.3, which includes a new feature called “Night Shift” that will reduce your iPhone’s blue light when it gets dark.
Nicole Nguyen / BuzzFeedNight Shift is available for iPhone 5S or later, iPad Pro, iPad Air or later, iPad mini 2 or later, and the 6th generation iPod Touch.
To get the feature on your iPhone, update to iOS 9.3 by opening Settings app > General > Software Updateor connecting your iPhone to your computer and opening iTunes.
(iTunes is usually faster than an over the air update).
Then open Settings > Display & Brightness > Night Shift.
Nicole / BuzzFeed
Slide to enable “scheduled” Night Shift, which will automatically turn on a warm display when you go to bed.
You can also tap the From/To arrow to set it to “Sunset and Sunrise.”
The iPhone will automatically enable Night Shift based on sunset/sunrise times in your location.
Nicole / BuzzFeed
Now, your iPhone will look like this when it’s dark out.
Nicole / BuzzFeed
If you select the manual setting, use the toggle to adjust the screen’s temperature.
Nicole / BuzzFeed
Like this!
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