{"id":4657,"date":"2017-05-29T00:56:10","date_gmt":"2017-05-28T22:56:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iristech.co\/?p=4657"},"modified":"2019-10-26T14:40:53","modified_gmt":"2019-10-26T12:40:53","slug":"night-shift-review-macos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iristech.co\/night-shift-review-macos\/","title":{"rendered":"Night Shift Review (macOS)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Night Shift is the Apple native integrated blue light reduction feature. Night Shift was first introduced on\u00a0March 21, 2016 as part of the\u00a0iOS 9.3.<\/p>\n

1 year after Night Shift first arrived for iPhone on\u00a0Mar 27, 2017 Apple finally added it also to Mac OSX or as now is called macOS. The goal of this review is to show you how to use Night Shift to sleep better and protect your eyes.<\/p>\n

Description<\/h2>\n

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Studies have shown that exposure to bright blue light in the evening can affect your circadian rhythms and make it harder to fall asleep. Night Shift uses your computer’s clock and geolocation to determine when it’s sunset in your location. It then automatically shifts the colors in your display to the warmer end of the spectrum. In the morning it returns the display to its regular settings.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Use Night Shift to adjust the colors on your display to the warmer end of the color spectrum. Warm screen colors are easier on your eyes when you use your Mac at night or in low-light conditions. And exposure to bright blue light in the evening can make it harder to fall asleep.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

System requirements<\/h2>\n

Now let’s first see if your Mac natively supports Night Shift. I will show you later how to enable Night Shift on older Mac machines.<\/p>\n

First of all, in order to get Night Shift, you need macOS Sierra 10.12.4<\/a> or newer versions of macOS. You can’t get Nigth Shift on older versions of the operating system.<\/p>\n

If you have the appropriate macOS version then you should be able to use Night Shift. Night Shift in natively supported on this Mac computers, using the built-in display or the displays listed:<\/p>\n