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James Smith

f.lux for iOS - Auto adjust your iOS display based on the time of day

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f.lux for iOS is designed to give you a better experience with your computer. It regulates the colors of your display so it can match the time of the day properly. That can reduce your eye strain or your headache or even help you sleep at night.

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Ryan Hoover
f.lux is a must-have app for Mac users. Awesome to see @herf build this for iOS, although it's unfortunately that it need to be side-loaded.
James Smith
Hunter
@rrhoover I'd love for it to be available normally. One thing I also find is at night the backlight, even at the minimum setting, it still too bright. Would be great if you could override this
Andrew Yates
@smithjw @rrhoover I found this also and then came across an accessibility option to dim the screen further. I then set it up against the home button 3 tap shortcut so I can toggle the dimming at night. This post explains it well: http://www.techrepublic.com/arti... :)
Akshay Patel
@ay8s this just made my day!
Amol Sarva
@ay8s @rrhoover Settings --> General --> Accessibility --> Zoom --> Zoom Filter --> Low Light.
K R
@amol @rrhoover anyone have this? I had the tab open and I didn't download !!
Hugo Alves
Infinite clapping. Thank you for this. I'm a bit sad that Apple hasn't bought f.lux and made it a system level feature.
James Smith
Hunter
Needs to be side-loaded using Xcode but you no longer need a paid Apple Developer account.
Joao Dordio
@smithjw why isn't the App in the App Store? Apple blocks it?
James Smith
Hunter
@dordio pretty sure it's because they're using some private APIs so would get rejected. Prior to iOS 9 you would have had to jailbreak to use that but now anyone can get a free dev account
Joao Dordio
@smithjw that's what I thought! I've been using f.lux on mac since forever and when I had a jailbroken iPhone was one of the best tweaks ever. Glad that this sees the iOS light again. Thanks @herf !
Joshua Dance
@smithjw That was my first question, how. Side loaded is not too bad. Thanks.
Michael Pfister
@smithjw couldn't be any happier. this was the only reason I had to jailbreak my phone. now I don't have to!
Mike Coutermarsh
Got it working. my eyes are so happy. xcode is a foreign world to me. So I was a bit confused when installing. For this step "Under Targets > iflux > General > Identity, add a word to the end of the Bundle Identifier to make it a unique name" This is what you need to do:
Maxim Ananov
@mscccc I wonder why it's necessary. I left it as is.
Mike Coutermarsh
@pointum i'm thinking that it's for when they get it in the app store. Installing the "official" version won't clash with this side loaded one.
James Smith
Hunter
So I've just uploaded this to GitHub for anyone who couldn't grab it before they took it down. Enjoy! https://github.com/smithjw/flux-iOS
Ryan Hoover
Unfortunately, that didn't last long. @herf just updated the site with the following: Apple has contacted us to say that the f.lux for iOS download (previously available on this page) is in violation of the Developer Program Agreement, so this method of install is no longer available. He continues to credit Product Hunt, LifeHacker, BGR , 9to5Mac , TechCrunch, and The Next Web for driving 176k visits in the past 24 hours. RIP, f.lux for iOS.
Maxim Ananov
@rrhoover I hope the developer did not add any expiration mechanism. It should continue to work otherwise.
Ben Tossell
What the FLUX?! Yeah I need this!
Adam Owen
Awesome! Can't wait to get this installed. Just wish Apple would stop being so restrictive with these types of apps. Instead, they should be buying the company and integrating this natively.
Cole Mercer
Love flux! Anyone know how / if this affects battery life?
Enrico Icardi
@colemercer i've been using it for about 1-2-3 years (don't even remember how long), and i can say that my battery's not complaining at all
Julien Steel
Hell yeah! Finally! Thanks
Dan Moore
Very cool, or should I say warm. One thing I don't understand is the notifications. You can send notifications to update the app that are invisible to the user. Like updating the notification icon on an app to 0. That's done by sending a notification to the phone. Dunno how flux does it, just reading the FAQ until I can get to my developer account to install it
Ă–zgĂĽr Celebi
It is good day to be a iOS Developer :)
Andrzej Bakonski
Loveeee f.lux on mac! So hold on, can I integrate this into my existing iOS app to allow dark/light etc modes?
ben Watanabe
@andrzejb200sx I and the team have been thinking about doing this for some time and making an open source project that could be loaded into any app. I don't think it would break any rules if it was on an app-by-app basis, will let you know if we do!
Justin Mitchell
Does this work without jailbreak now? Thinking of side loading this during lunch today
James Smith
Hunter
@itsthisjustin yup, just need a free dev account
Justin Mitchell
Just installed this. It's amazing. Exactly what I needed and expected. F.lux is the first app I tell anyone to download on their new Macbook and this is no exception. If anyone can't install this and needs it, I don't mind adding you to the build on HockeyApp.
Ignacio Alonso
This is awesome! Installing now. Thanks for the Hunt!
Kelly Kuhn-Wallace
Anyone want to compile this with an installer? Because Windows users. You know you do.
ian ray
@kkdub you can also try Redshift: http://jonls.dk/redshift/
Lyle McKeany
It's working great for me so far. However, the notifs are super annoying. It let me know the sun was setting in 28, 22, 15 minutes and 1 minute ago. That's a bit much. Then I turned off lock screen notifs and it still turns on my screen and shows the "TouchID or Enter Passcode" screen. Hmm...
Taylor Crane
Is it just a matter of following the (now removed) instructions? If so, I'm sure the instructions were saved by others...
Taylor Crane
@taykcrane UPDATE: it looks like what's needed is the .ZIP file. Surely someone who downloaded it still has it, right??
Sergio Sala
@taykcrane I have the ZIP, but I can't download... it says No provisioning profiles found. Anyone know why?
Taylor Crane
@sergiosa_la damnit. Guess it's not that easy.
Fredrik Olovsson
Can't wait to get f.lux on Android! Seems like it is coming soon too: https://justgetflux.com/forum/to... In the meantime using Twilight (https://www.producthunt.com/tech...), but... it's just not f.lux...
Joost
Finally, I've been waiting for this for a long time! Going to try it out and see how it does. Hooray for sleep.