The screen of our phones, blue light It’s spreading. At night, this light shines on our body. “Let’s go to sleep kids!” It stops the production of the signaling hormone melatonin and affects eye health.

Well, we use this light in iPhones, which reduces the blue light from the screen and creates warmer colors. With ‘Night Shift’ mode What effect would it have if we changed it?

It turns out that the Night Shift feature has no effect on sleep health.

In the study published in Brigham Young University’s Sleep Health journal; a bunch before going to sleep with Night Shift on He used the phone for 1 hour, One group did the same with Night Shift turned off, while the other group didn’t look at their phone at all.

As a result of the research, the Night Shift function was created It has no effect on sleep quality popped up. But of course there are also other effects.

We can’t literally say ‘harmful’ either.

Because we encounter more yellow light during the day, we can associate blue light (twilight) with sleep in the evening. For this reason after a whole day of exposure to yellow light from the sun We may be creating the wrong effect by using our phone’s Night Shift feature in the evening.

However, we should not forget that this study was conducted on mice, and because humans and animals are very different from each other, the margin of error in animal testing is very high. Therefore, we cannot conclude that Night Shift is exactly “harmful”, but we can say that it is likely. The important thing here is that you actually use your phone. level of brightness.

There is no denying that Night Shift is good for eye strain.

Night Shift mode reduces eye strain by adjusting the screen color to warmer tones, but it is of course not the only solution. Also enable Night Shift and 8 hours of screen time If you do this, we don’t think it will be of much use…

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