Instructions to activate Night Shift on iPhone, iPad

Night Shift is a very useful feature for users who often use the phone at night, added by Apple in the iOS 9.3 update and even higher versions. Night Shift shifts your screen to a warmer range of the normal color spectrum, soothing your eyes when looking at your device’s screen.

The purpose of this feature is to block blue light, reduce the influence of iOS screen light on your eyes and sleep. So Night Shift is a much needed feature.

With Night ShiftApple will detect your location and determine the right time to change your iOS device’s screen from a blue screen to a warmer yellow tone.

In particular, in the settings of the mode Night Shiftyou can easily customize this mode to automatically turn on or off based on the real time and defined location of the device such as setting a schedule to turn on automatically from Sunset to Sunrise or set a schedule to turn on automatically at a time of your choice.

Enable Night Shift mode on iPhone, iPad in Settings Settings

To enable Night Shift on iOS devices version 9.3 and above, follow the steps below:

Step 1: Open the Settings app on your iOS device, then select Display & Brightness (Display & Brightness).

Step 2: Click select Night Shift.

Step 3: Here, you can set the feature to turn on or off manually, or set a schedule to automatically open the device screen with a warmer yellow tone. The options are as follows:

• Expected schedule (Scheduled): this option allows you to adjust and set the time to turn on and off automatic Night Shift mode.
  • Sunset to Sunrise (Sunset to Sunrise): automatically open Night Shift at dusk and turn it off the next morning.
  • Custom Schedule (Custom Scheduled): choose the time frame to turn on and off Night Shift at your discretion

• Turn it on manually until tomorrow (Manually Enable Until Tomorrow): this option allows you to enable Night Shift manually.

In addition, you can adjust the color and yellowness of the screen at the slider Color temperature (Color Temperature), for Warmer (Warmer) or Cooler (Cooler) at will

Turn on Night Shift on iPhone, iPad in Control Center

Night Shift turned on very easily in Control Center (Control Center) on iOS 9.3 and iOS 10.

You just need to swipe up from the bottom edge of the screen to open control center, and button Night Shift will be located as follows:

All you have to do is click Night Shift will be enabled according to the customizations you have installed in your phone’s Settings as the section on Quantrimang.com instructs.

As for the higher iOS versions, like iOS 11, 12, 13… the dedicated button for Night Shift has disappeared on the Control Center. It is revealed that it “hides” in the screen brightness button (the vertical bar next to the volume control bar).

To enable Night Shift with these versions, refer to the article: Night Shift feature “hides” in Control Center and here’s how to “pull” it out.

It’s all about Night Shift! Through this article, hopefully you will use this mode more often to keep your eyes healthy and minimize sleep problems in the smartphone era.

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