Mac Night Shift Only Manual Working

Mac Night Shift Only Manual Working

Jan 25, 2017  One year after introducing Night Shift on the iPhone and iPad, Apple is bringing its display color temperature feature to the Mac starting with macOS 10.12.4. Here’s how to enable Night Shift.

  1. One year after introducing Night Shift on the iPhone and iPad, Apple is bringing its display color temperature feature to the Mac starting with macOS 10.12.4. Here’s how to enable Night Shift on.
  2. No Night Shift on Mac mini 2012. Is it only on laptops? I use a 23' Acer H236HL Display with my 2014 Mac mini and I have Night Shift working.

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.

How to set up Night Shift

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Make sure that your Mac meets the system requirements for Night Shift, then follow these steps:

  1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Displays.
  2. Click the Night Shift tab.

Schedule: Create a custom Night Shift schedule or have Night Shift turn on automatically from sunset to sunrise.

Manual: Control Night Shift manually.

  • If Night Shift is off, select the checkbox to turn Night Shift on until 7 a.m. If you're using a schedule, Night Shift automatically turns off at the scheduled time.
  • If Night Shift is on, deselect the checkbox to turn Night Shift off. If you're using a schedule, Night Shift turns on again at the scheduled time.

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Color Temperature: Drag the slider to make the color temperature more or less warm when Night Shift is on. Warmer color temperatures show more yellow and less blue.


You can control the Manual setting from Notification Center as well. Click the Notification Center icon in the menu bar, or swipe left with two fingers from the right side of your trackpad. Then scroll up to reveal the Night Shift setting.

System requirements for Night Shift

Night Shift requires macOS Sierra 10.12.4 and one of these Mac computers, using the built-in display or the displays listed:

  • MacBook models from early 2015 or later
  • MacBook Air models from mid 2012 or later
  • MacBook Pro models from mid 2012 or later
  • Mac mini models from late 2012 or later
  • iMac models from late 2012 or later
  • Mac Pro models from late 2013 or later
  • Apple LED Cinema Display
  • Apple Thunderbolt Display
  • LG UltraFine 5K Display
  • LG UltraFine 4K Display

Learn more

  • Learn how to use Night Shift on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch.
  • If you have a Mac that supports True Tone, you can use True Tone and Night Shift at the same time.

Apple is introducing Night Shift Feature to new Mac OS Sierra. Even though this is is a simple feature, this is going to save your eyes if you are sitting behind the screen for a long time at your work or home. Here we are going to introduce a Night Shift Software solution for the user those are using an old version of Mac OS X. This open source software can help both Windows and Mac users to adjust their screen to a different level of brightness automatically based on the time you scheduled. f.lux can adjust the screen of your computer according to the room light and your computer screen looks like the room you’re in. This software can adjust your screen to match with your indoor lights when the Sunset.

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This Night Shift software will work both in Windows and Mac platform. Windows OS users also can take advantage of this open source Night Shift.

Get Night Shift Feature on Windows PCs

This free software will work on almost all versions of Windows; you can download the free Windows f.lux app from this link. Once you start the app, it will locate your PC location and start to adjust your screen brightness (temperature) according to your location.

f.lux is working based on your location and automatically changes the screen tone according to the time change. This night shift software gradually adjusts your screen from Day to Night mode or to the custom settings. The day and night screen lighting can set manually with our choice.

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Get Night Shift Feature on Old Mac OS X

For Mac users, download and install this free Mac app from flux. Once you open the f.lux, the popup will ask you to share your location. Your location information is using to calculate the sunrise and sunset time on your location.

Once you allow location access, f.lux will start its magic by adjusting your screen accordingly. Now you have the option to set the color temperature in Kelvin of your Mac screen on three different scenarios like Daytime, Sunset & Bedtime.

Flex is a very lightweight open source app for your Mac or Windows machine. The latest features are adding like background alarm clock for the users, expand daytime setting, etc. You can exit f.lux any time and retrieve your original screen color and temperature if you don’t like this feature.

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This is a quick easy solution for Windows and Mac users, who are working long-time behind the screens. There is no need to manually adjusting the screen brightness or monitor temperature. Once you set up the required screen temperature and the brightness, the rest will take care by f.lux automatically. Try to use this software and this is a gift for your eyes.