10 Editing Photos with Night Shift Enabled
Night Shift is a pretty cool feature that makes the temperature — or hue — of your display warmer when enabled. It helps reduce the amount of blue light you see at night. If you haven’t used it, you might want to check it out. Just head over to Settings and find Night Shift under the Display & Brightness section. You can choose the level of warmth, set a schedule, or enable/disable the feature manually.
While Night Shift is a useful tool, Apple overlooked a major issue: photo editing. When you access Photos — or any imaging apps — on your iPhone, Night Shift does not disable itself. So when you edit your picture, what you see can be very different from what the photo actually looks like. You may end up with a photo that’s overly blue or washed out.
It would be nice if Apple changed Photos so that it disables Night Shift automatically. It would also be nice if they provided an API that would allow developers to do the same. But right now they don’t. So, if you’re editing photos, remember to disable it.
What About True Tone?
Some iOS devices also support something called True Tone. True Tone allows the display to adapt to its surroundings. Much like a white sheet of paper, that may look bright under cool lights — and amber under warmer lighting conditions — your iPhone can adjust its display for a more natural look.
iPhone has a very color-accurate display, and you’re likely used to editing photos in its normal display mode. That being said, your picture will look different under different lighting conditions, so in some ways, True Tone might help. I would recommend trying it for yourself and deciding whether it helps or hinders your editing capabilities.