As a major update to the iOS 9 operating system, iOS 9.3 introduces several new functions, important bug fixes, and feature refinements. Perhaps the biggest change is the introduction of Night Shift mode, designed to reduce the amount of blue light iOS users are exposed to in the evening by shifting the iPhone or iPad display to a warmer (yellower) color spectrum.
Still the only major upside for me to switching from Android to iOS: I already have iOS 9.3 installed.
Nightshift is a copy of Redshift which has been available on Linux since 2009.
Are you saying Redshift shamelessly copied Apple?!
Sigh, and…? I know this isn’t your first time on the carousel, this happens. Would you rather the feature existed and “helped” people, or the feature was absent and didn’t?
Nah, he’d rather everyone use Linux and only Linux whether it runs the software they need or not.
And your point is? This is the software industry. Everyone copies everyone else, eventually.
This is all a copy of my 1980s monitor that had Amber shift!
Which was a copy of f.lux, available on OSX and Windows. According to Wikipedia:
Initial release February 2009
And redshift: 4 November 2009
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As someone who likes to read e-books in the evening and who has been using f.lux on his Mac for a while I’ve been looking forward to Night Shift. The options are way too limited though in that infuriating Apple-y way. Two types of schedules – sunset to sunrise or custom – and a slider that just says “less warm” and “more warm”. No fine-grained control over temperature and no separate settings for sunset (indoor lighting) and bedtime (minimal or no lighting). Plus the screen is still too bright on the lowest setting. I guess e-book readers will have to continue offering an “extra dimming” option that overlays the screen with a dark semi-transparent layer and let’s just hope that Apple doesn’t start rejecting apps due to that feature.
I had to enter my Apple ID password five times with this update. Once after installation, then for iCloud, then for iTunes, then for App Store, then for iCloud Backups. Regardless of one’s stance on security, this seems a bit excessive. Entering the same password five times doesn’t make you more secure than entering it once. This happened on all of my iOS devices.