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Apple’s iOS 9.3 preview page hints at possible Control Center toggle to enable Night Shift

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With the introduction of the first beta of iOS 9.3, Apple introduced a new feature called Night Shift that adjusts the color temperature of your device’s display at night as to make it easier to fall asleep. One qualm many have had with the feature, however, is that you have to go into the Settings app to turn it on and off. Apple’s iOS 9.3 Canadian preview page, however, hints that it make become easier to enable the feature with future iOS 9.3 updates…

If you head to the iOS 9.3 preview page on Apple Canada’s website, you can see that there’s an option to enable Night Shift from Control Center on the iPad. The Control Center toggle brings up two options: “Turn On For Now” and “Turn On Until Tomorrow.” This toggle is noticeably missing from the American version of the 9.3 preview page, so it’s unclear what exactly Apple has planned for it (via Reddit)

One possibility is that we’ll see the Control Center Night Shift option appear in a future iOS 9.3 beta, the next of which could come as early as next week. It’s unclear as to whether this will be an iPad only feature or if it will come to the iPhone, as well.

If you’re unfamiliar, Night Shift uses your iOS device’s location and clock to automatically adjust the colors in your display, making them warmer and easier on the eyes at nighttime. In the end, Apple says this should make it easier to fall asleep as the bright blue light normally emitted from a display has been found to disrupt your circadian rhythms.

If a new beta of iOS 9.3 should come out next week, we’ll be sure to keep an eye out for the Night Shift Control Center toggle.

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Comments

  1. blockbusterbuzz - 8 years ago

    Nice! Maybe its just me but I love control center. It makes me happy ☺️

  2. robkow86 - 8 years ago

    This has me really excited actually. Looking forward to this update!

  3. moo083 - 8 years ago

    I just wish they would add force touch features to control center. Like if you force touch Bluetooth it would take you directly to the bluetooth section in Settings, the same in WiFi, and so forth. I have a bluetooth headset that I swap between my laptop and phone and the only way to do it is to disconnect from one and explicitly connect with the other. So I end up in Bluetooth settings a lot. If Control Center had a quick way to get there that would be fantastic.

    • Settings will get a 3D Touch Bluetooth shortcut with iOS 9.3

      • o0smoothies0o - 8 years ago

        You still have to find the settings app. Sorry, but his suggestion should be available.

        Unfortunately for him, and everyone else, Apple has 2 engineers working on 3D Touch features, hence why there are so few. At least I hope they only have 2 engineers on it, because anything else is inexcusably embarrassingly horribly sad.

    • mytawalbeh - 8 years ago

      I hope that too and thought about it since the introducing 3D touch.

    • Jake Becker - 8 years ago

      Whoa, you pull up the menu and then force touch on there….layers, man, it’s like..touchception..?

  4. chaityacshah - 8 years ago

    Would be more convenient to have it in Control Center

  5. Terrence Newton - 8 years ago

    “…adjusts the color temperature of your device’s display at night as to make it easier to fall asleep…”

    Here’s an idea. Turn it off if you want to sleep.

    • jacosta45 - 8 years ago

      Apple is catering to people who like to read at night for whatever reason or for better readability in general. As long as the option for Night Shift is available; hopefully in CC :)

  6. pdoobs - 8 years ago

    i really wish they would give us more control over the control center toggles. I would like to see battery saver on there or maybe a 3D press on the settings icon.

  7. taoprophet420 - 8 years ago

    The Lamp Shade icon would be more fitting for HomeKit,the moon Do Not Disturb looks more what a night mode icon should look like.

    I wish control center used the full screen like Notification Center,so we had more options and could customize some the shortcuts we see and have.

  8. benjaminmumford - 8 years ago

    Has no one seen the extra icon also on there? The bell icon which could be an alarm one? The middle row is 6 icons (there are only 5 on my iPad mini!)

    • Gregory Snyder - 8 years ago

      The bell icon is there on the iPad Air 2 and iPad mini 4. It’s the silent toggle since they both lack a physical silent switch.

    • Arin Failing - 8 years ago

      Do you mean the “Mute” toggle? I see Airplane Mode, Wifi, Bluetooth, Do Not Disturb, Mute, and Orientation Lock. These are all current system toggles in CC. Depending on what you’re using the iPad hardware switch for, generally Mute and Orientation Lock interchange. Maybe Apple is putting everything on a software level, to have the option to eliminate one more piece of hardware.

  9. MK (@MathiasMK84) - 8 years ago

    Cool, but I like the automatic switch after sunset.
    On iPhone I would rather see a vibration toggle.

  10. natty991 - 8 years ago

    i was hoping a toggle for night shift, what i would like to see is the ability to use touch id to protect individual apps

  11. Will Van Gelderen - 8 years ago

    Coming from Windows Phone, one of the things I liked was the ability to add or remove your own control toggles in the control center. Wish Apple would do this, a battery saver option would be nice as well

  12. triankar - 8 years ago

    I’d love the control center round icons to become scrollable left-to-right (like the Android “control center” equivalent icons are scrollable, at least on LG phones). 5 slots are simply not enough.

    Furthermore, it would be nifty if the control center buttons could take us to the respective settings screen when 3D-Touched (at least for WiFi and Bluetooth).

    The biggest bug in 9.3 is that all UI related to audio output redirection has magically disappeared (e.g. when a BT headset is connected). No extra options during calls, no options in the control center, nothing.

  13. That brightness slider it’s already too small on Mini, this looks like it’s gonna be even smaller. :(

  14. Tom Hank - 8 years ago

    Why do we need to use this feature? Mainly, Apple introduces this feature to ease the strain on your eyes when looking at the screen at night. Then what about day time? Also the orange screen looks really irritating to me. I am using screen protector to save my eyes from harmful blue light. This “ocushield” screen protector also helps me to sleep better.

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