{"id":12574,"date":"2015-10-15T13:40:11","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T17:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=12574"},"modified":"2015-10-23T12:58:34","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T16:58:34","slug":"quickly-dimming-the-iphone-screen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/15\/quickly-dimming-the-iphone-screen\/","title":{"rendered":"Quickly Dimming the iPhone Screen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.techinsider.io\/dim-the-brightness-of-your-iphone-screen-2015-10\">Tim Stenovec<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcelhearn\/status\/653640024144117760\">Kirk McElhearn<\/a>) and <a href=\"https:\/\/medium.com\/@searls\/how-to-make-your-iphone-dimmer-than-dim-d20fd3bbbb66\">Justin Searls<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/tidbits.com\/article\/16001\">Josh Centers<\/a>) show how you can set up your iPhone so that triple-clicking the Home button dims the screen. This seems to only change the brightness. It doesn&rsquo;t change the color temperature like <a href=\"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/20\/flux\/\">f.lux<\/a> does. There <em>is<\/em> a limited way to do that in iOS via Settings &#8227; General &#8227; Accessibility &#8227; Increase Contrast &#8227; Reduce White Point, but I don&rsquo;t know of a way to make a shortcut for that.<\/p>\n<p>Update (2015-10-23): <a href=\"http:\/\/danfrakes.com\/2014\/11\/03\/my-favorite-ios-8-features-big-and-small\/\">Dan Frakes<\/a> wrote about this with iOS 8.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Stenovec (via Kirk McElhearn) and Justin Searls (via Josh Centers) show how you can set up your iPhone so that triple-clicking the Home button dims the screen. This seems to only change the brightness. It doesn&rsquo;t change the color temperature like f.lux does. There is a limited way to do that in iOS via [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[930,687,31,1137,85],"class_list":["post-12574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-accessibility","tag-flux","tag-ios","tag-ios-9","tag-iphone"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12653,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12574\/revisions\/12653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}