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A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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Post by justinator »

fouc wrote: post #58
martheen wrote: post #56

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Probably not. OLED screens use less energy the more absolute dark pixel in the screen, and darker anything (can be greyscale or color) consume somewhat less than brighter anything, but greyscale on its own usually don't change how much absolute dark and darker pixels being displayed, unless you also tweak the brightness. Usually, the color filter is applied at the end of the process, so the GPU don't get to skip any…

jinx! looks like we answered a 5 hour old question at the same time ha!

I still appreciate the answer(s)!

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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Post by seanssel »

cyberpunk wrote: post #66
leejoramo wrote: post #45

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I too have had a shortcut for “red filter” + “minimal brightness” + “reduced brightness” for years. I trigger it by a Triple back tap. Great for night usage with our eye strain or bothering your spouse

Could you share it?

I think they’re talking about going to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut. I just realized this was a thing, very nice.

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Post by nunez »

jauco wrote: post #52
nunez wrote: post #40

I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

There’s night shift by default in your iphone right? You can use the slider to make it more pronounced.

Yes, and I have that enabled all day, but red light is much more pleasant to look at at night and helps induce sleep: https://www.sleepfoundation.org/bedroom-environment/is-red-l...

Re: A greyscale iPhone setup that works in everyday life

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Post by tasoeur »

what wrote: post #51
tasoeur wrote: post #11

This is actually very neat, my phone is already setup with grayscale and triple tap to turn on red light filter so I’m exited to add that! Little plug since we’re in the topic of dumb phones etc, I have a completely free and non-creepy iPhone app launcher for folks who are into that: - https://sxp.studio/apps/applist (The app catalog is also open source)

Where’s the source?

https://github.com/sxp-studio/app-list-catalog

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Post by wky »

solarkraft wrote: post #64
nunez wrote: post #40

I'd love to see more attention given to what I've called "red mode". It's a colour filter that, well, makes the screen red. It's AMAZING for reading at night. Not bright, renders text clearly, amazing on the eyes. I'd also like to see an eInk phone take off, but this is more doable. Reduce White Point is also great for reducing max brightness and preserving eye health

I use that. It’s nice. I just wish I could mix it with black and white mode because the way the filter works makes blue things unreadable and it generally messes with color rendering more than it would need to.

Zoom's filter applies before Color Filters, so a workaround is to toggle on zoom, set it to greyscale, then use the 3 finger gesture to zoom out to 100%.
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