How to Activate Night Shift on an iPhone

This wikiHow teaches you how to turn on Night Shift on your iPhone, as well as how to schedule Night Shift to automatically come on during certain hours of the day. Night Shift is a blue-light filter that helps prevent interruptions to your circadian rhythm at night, which can improve your sleep.

Edit10 Second Summary

1. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen.
2. Press down on the "Brightness" bar.
3. Tap the Night Shift circle.

EditSteps

EditManually Enabling Night Shift

1. Open your iPhone's Control Center menu. Swipe up from the bottom of the screen to do so. You should see a series of boxes and icons appear on the screen.
   
2. Long-press on the "Brightness" bar. It's a vertical bar with an image of a sun (a sphere with spokes) on it. Pressing firmly on it for a second will open the Brightness menu.
   
   • If you don't press hard enough, the Brightness menu won't open.
3. Tap . It's a circle at the bottom of the screen. The circle will turn orange, signifying that Night Shift is on until midnight.
   
   • If the Night Shift circle is already orange, Night Shift is currently activated and tapping the circle again will turn off Night Shift.

EditScheduling Night Shift

1. Open your iPhone's Settings . Tap the Settings app icon, which resembles a grey box with gears on it.
   
2. Scroll down and tap . You'll find this option just below the General option near the top of the "Settings" page.
   
3. Tap . It's near the top of the page.
   
4. Tap the white "Scheduled" switch . It's near the top of the page. Tapping it will cause it to turn green .
   
5. Tap the section. This section appears beneath the "Scheduled" switch when turned on. Doing so opens a page with scheduling options.
   
6. Select a schedule option. Tap Sunset to Sunrise to allow your iPhone to enable Night Shift when the sun goes down and disable it at dawn, or tap Custom Schedule to set custom hours of use.
   
   • To set custom hours of use on a custom schedule, tap Turn On At and select a time, then tap Turn Off At and select a time.
7. Tap Night Shift. It's in the top-left corner of the screen. Doing so will save your changes and apply them. Your iPhone's Night Shift feature should now automatically activate and deactivate depending on your selected schedule.
   
   • You can adjust the Night Shift depth of color by tapping and dragging the slider at the bottom of the "Night Shift" page left to decrease the warmth or right to increase the warmth.

EditTips

• You can also manually enable Night Shift from the "Night Shift" menu by tapping the white "Manually Enable Until Tomorrow" switch.

EditWarnings

• Night Shift is an iOS 11 and up feature. If you haven't yet upgraded to iOS 11, you won't be able to use Night Shift.

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