Mac: Your Mac’s Night Shift and True Tone modes are great and all, but they can be fussy at times, and they might not work (or work very well) with an externally connected display. Separately, it’s also annoying to have to tap buttons and fumble through on-screen displays just to adjust your monitor’s brightness and contrast to your liking.
Apple recently added Night Shift to macOS, which changes the colour temperature of your screen based on the time of day in the hopes that it will help you sleep better. Before the launch of Night Shift, f.lux was the go-to tool for doing this. Let's see how they compare.
Mac: If you're a fan of Night Shift on your iPhone, or F.lux on your Mac, you'll be happy to know that Apple's rolling out an update to macOS today that adds the time-based colour-shifting feature to your Mac.
Android (root): F.lux is one of our favourite tools for automatically changing the colour temperature of your monitor based on the time of day. Now, it's arrived on Android, but you'll need root to use it.
iOS: F.lux, the app that changes your screen temperature based on the time of day, is one of our favourites because it makes your screen a lot more readable at night. Now, it's available on iOS, provided you're willing to jump through a couple hoops.
