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iPhone Addicted to f.lux

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brianjsw

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Sep 23, 2014
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I love this program so much. My eyes don't strain at night anymore. I used to insist on losing my JB just to stay current but not anymore! They can pry my f.lux out of my cold dead hands lol...

Apple added a setting to reduce the white level in the accessibility settings with iOS 8 but it's a joke it hardly does anything.

Also all of the nasty quirks with the buggy third party keyboard API still exist in 8.1.1 (thank you to my friend for letting me test on his device!) so I'm not sure *what* Apple did other than fix some security issues and nerf Pangu. No urgency to update from my perspective.
 
heisenberg123 said:
everyone loves this tweak it seems, I can't find a nighttime setting that I like the look of
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I love f.lux. However, I had to install it. I have Eclipse installed and it makes everything black/gray. That couple with a better auto brightness that iOS 7 brings means f.lux is often making things too dark for me to read.

Still love it though.
 
I'm not getting the love for f.lux unless this is for older iPhones?

I installed it on my iPad Air2 and 6+. It made the screen different shades of yellow. Like make my eyes bleed yellow. Or else it made the screen look exactly the same without the hack installed.

What am I missing?
 
MatthewStorm said:
I'm not getting the love for f.lux unless this is for older iPhones?

I installed it on my iPad Air2 and 6+. It made the screen different shades of yellow. Like make my eyes bleed yellow. Or else it made the screen look exactly the same without the hack installed.

What am I missing?
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You're missing using your device at night. The point of f.lux is to reduce the blue light of LCDs and monitors over the course of time. By nightfall your screen should have a warm glow. The blue light in a screen not using f.lux is equivalent to full sunlight at midday. That can affect some people.

Turning your screen on at night in a dark room, it's much easier to instantly adjust to that warm glow then it is the harsh blue light of a screen not using f.lux.

The slow reduction of blue light also aids in getting to sleep faster and for some people a reduction in headaches, eye strain and migraines.

f.lux is a subtle tweak. If it's doing it's job you won't notice.
 
MatthewStorm said:
I'm not getting the love for f.lux unless this is for older iPhones?

I installed it on my iPad Air2 and 6+. It made the screen different shades of yellow. Like make my eyes bleed yellow. Or else it made the screen look exactly the same without the hack installed.

What am I missing?
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that is what I was noticing for the 6
 
i loved it on my 5 and now i have the 6 Plus and i installed it the other night and there would be some instances where during daytime my screen would flash that yellow tint it converts at night. Is it fully updated for iOS 8 and the 6 Plus now?
 
had it when i first jailbreaked last year, didn't see the need for it so i removed it but now reading this thread made me reinstall it as i realize i do have problems with the color at night
 
I don't use computers or mobile devices anymore without f.lux. It makes looking at screens after dark so much more enjoyable. I don't even really notice that it's on until I go into the app and turn it off briefly. Then the blinding blue tint returns and I remember why I use f.lux in the first place.
 
I initially found the screen way too orange. I worked the settings some and got it to yellow, but still didn't like it.

Finally set "At night" to 4200k (under f.lux app) and "At night" (under Settings->f.lux) to Halogen. This makes for a cream color that works for me.

Don't know why the f.lux options are split between the app and Settings.

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Geert76 said:
here is hoping for an iOS 8 Flipswitch/Toggle for f.lux :)
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There is a Flipswitch toggle for f.lux for iOS 8...I'm using it.
 
jpcarro said:
I initially found the screen way too orange. I worked the settings some and got it to yellow, but still didn't like it.

Finally set "At night" to 4200k (under f.lux app) and "At night" (under Settings->f.lux) to Halogen. This makes for a cream color that works for me.

Don't know why the f.lux options are split between the app and Settings.

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There is a Flipswitch toggle for f.lux for iOS 8...I'm using it.
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the app lets you modify the default colors from the settings part
 
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There is a Flipswitch toggle for f.lux for iOS 8...I'm using it.[/QUOTE]

I had that toggle, but was no longer working with the latest .998 f.lux update
 
I love flux.
I have it I my iPad air, 6 and 6 plus.
I even have it on my MacBook, for those of you that don't know it's available for osx.
 
surfologist87 said:
I love flux.
I have it I my iPad air, 6 and 6 plus.
I even have it on my MacBook, for those of you that don't know it's available for osx.
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Thanks just downloaded it for my Mac. Lets see how it feels as there is a whole lot more real estate to evaluate.
 
f.lux and SwipeSelection Pro are the only things I'd miss if I lost my jailbreak.

Everyone I've shown f.lux to has installed it on their PC/Mac at the very least, if not their phone. My manager is on Android and installed it before I even demoed it! It's the only app I've found stock iOS users get fidgety over!

At home my gf's iPhone is on stock iOS and the difference is like night and day. That harsh blue screen is glaring, especially in the dark.

And it really works for me. Since using it I find I can sleep a lot quicker than before(but I also pay attention to ambient lighting as well when it's approaching bedtime).

I wish I could manually edit when it starts and stops instead of using location, though, because I have to keep enabling/disabling it manually from the app each day.
 
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