Today's macOS Sierra 10.12.4 brings just a handful of new features, including support for dictation in Shanghainese (the so-called Wu language spoken in China's most populous city), updated PDFKit APIs, improved Siri and allowing developers to respond to reviews of their apps in Mac App StoreThe list may sound boring, but we must not forget the most important new feature of all, Night Shift mode.
This is a function you already know from iOS, where it has been available for about a year. Night Shift can adjust the color temperature of the display, suppress blue light, and thus improve the quality of your sleep. The function should make the display more pleasant in the evening, so your eyes should not hurt from working on your Mac in the evening.
But where to activate the new function? The Night Shift setting is located in System Preferences -> Monitors -> Night Shift (up). In addition, the function can also be activated from the Notification Center, where Night Shift is now located right above the Do Not Disturb function. The attached screenshots in the gallery below will tell you more.
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Night Shift on macOS works exactly the same as on iOS. You can even set it to activate itself from dusk to dawn, but you need to have Location Services turned on in macOS so that the system can detect your time zone. You can also set your own time interval for when the feature will turn on and off. Night Shift can also be activated once, and then it will deactivate itself at sunrise. Nakonec you can use the slider to choose the color temperature of the display, which again works the same as on iOS.
Supported devices:
- MacBook (Early 2015)
- MacBook Air (Mid 2012 or later)
- MacBook Pro (Mid 2012 or later)
- Mac mini (Late 2012 or later)
- iMac (Late 2012 or later)
- Mac Pro (Late 2013 or later)
For a better idea of where Night Shift is set up and what it looks like on a Mac, I recommend checking out our images in the gallery above and a video from MacRumors below.
New macOS Sierra installed and the Night Shift feature is nowhere to be found. Maybe it would be nice to list which books can actually do this and which people will look for it in vain like me, and then prefer to use f.lux, from which this function is based anyway.
The problem is that Apple it doesn't give details about supported models anywhere.
Metal should be used for NightShift, so the following machines should be supported:
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT205073
great it works.. Btw MBPr 2014
Well, I don't see Night Shift either. I think it's because the computer with the monitor as a whole is not, for example, an iMac, or something MacBook. I have Mac Pro and Eizo. In the settings and nowhere in the system after NS not even a trace.
Night Shift also works on an external monitor. I've tried it myself, everything changes only in software.
it also works for me on an external monitor, connected via USB-C
Hmm, it doesn't work for me, or rather it has nothing to do, because there is no choice. Both in the panels for the monitor and for Ozn. center.
It can be as software as it wants, but if the elements are not accessible from the software...:-((. Overall, I don't care, I just wanted to make it clear that it probably won't work for everyone.
maybe I'm the only one, but it seems to me that after the update the mac gets a little hotter..
it looks the same to me on the MBP15 2010
so I'm curious .. so far I've used https://justgetflux.com/ (it works even where night shift is not supported - strange, huh?) .. we'll see if it gets better :))
Well, it's more about the fact that older Macs don't support Metal, Metal is something like DirectX on Windows, i.e. an alternative to OpenGL in terms of graphics. This means that Metal is much more gentle on graphics and at the same time more powerful, that is, yes, Flux can do the same, but it affects cooling, graphics load and battery life more than native support from Apple in macOS.
So on MBP 2010 Night Shift does not appear for me and on MBP 2014 it does. Once there Apple he gave the restriction, it would be nice if they would publish what it actually is :)
Orxion: f.lux, quite interesting. Although I don't need this feature, I mean Night.S., and it's not enabled on my "machine", I tried it, pretty cool. And setting up. Thanks for the tip.