Samsung’s new Galaxy Note 7 ships with its latest TouchWiz software, which finally includes a blue light filter. The feature was obviously inspired by Night Shift mode, which Apple introduced to iPhone and iPad with iOS 9.3 back in March.
Apple wasn’t the first to offer a blue light filter; Amazon’s Fire tablets got the feature sometime earlier, and other devices have one, too. In fact, you’ve long been able to download third-party blue light filters from the Google Play Store on Android.
But for a while, Apple has been the only major smartphone maker to make a blue light filter available as standard in its Night Shift mode. Now Samsung is following suit — and we don’t mind that it is copycatting… again.
Inside its display settings on the Galaxy Note 7, users can toggle a blue light filter that promises to reduce eye strain. The feature can also be activated and deactivated more easily from within the Quick Settings panel, but sadly it cannot be scheduled like Night Shift.
This means you don’t need third-party blue light filters with the Galaxy Note 7. Presumably, this feature will also come to other Samsung devices — like the Galaxy S7 series — when they get its latest TouchWiz software with a future update.
Google is also making a blue light filter available as standard in Android 7.0 Nougat, which is currently in testing with developers and will rollout to Nexus users this fall.
I’ve written about why blue light filters are important in my post on why you should use Night Shift mode in iOS. In a nutshell, it could help you fall asleep faster and improve the quality of your sleep, as well as reduce your risk of heart disease, diabetes, and more.
Via: SamMobile
Killian Bell is a freelance writer based in the U.K. He has an interest in all things tech and also covers Android over at CultofAndroid.com. You can follow him on Twitter via @killianbell.
33 responses to “Galaxy Note 7 rips off iPhone’s Night Shift mode”
I’m surprised they didn’t copy the True Tone feature while they were at it…
Yeah, I was thinking the same thing. Having used both, I have to say that night shift feels like a gimmick, but True Tone on the iPad Pro 9.7 is truly awesome. I seriously hope Apple pushes True Tone throughout their product line as this is the way to go.
It’s the same sheep from BGR, what a surprise lol.
Nothing intelligent to add to the discussion from the same tard…. what a shocker!
It’s all about attacking the competition, which is Android. There’s no room for intelligence in your stupid “discussions” lol. Stop being a hypocrite and maybe people will take you seriously, sheep.
Where did I attack the competition? Apple has “night shift” mode as well… which I do use. It is a gimmick. The problem is much better solved though a different technique. Don’t be a moron.
It’s in every other comment you type. Don’t pretend you don’t know what I’m referring to.
When I call out BS, you consider that attacking platforms. Whatever…. facts are facts. Yet, the one consistent theme here is that your posts always lack substance. This thread is no different in that respect.
Copy it from who? This is not an apple invention and apple isn’t the first or only user of it.
You just posted this because your next phone, the iPhone 7 is already obsolete.
That’s the next release! :)
You mean Adaptive Display?
Of which, Apple took this feature that has limited scientific evidence almost wholesale from F.lux. Sadly, those with limited science backgrounds still push the belief that this stuff works without realizing that the amount of change in the ambient visual temperature is impossible with the amount of light these devices emit.
These are the sorts of articles that make Apple fans look like complete and utter fanbois.
*brainwashed sheep.
You mean like the Android robots that just fall in line ?
No. Most of us like the platform and have no problem with what YOU use. Most of us tell the ones of us that make us look like tools that they are tools…much like I did above.
I love my Mac and iPhone and iPads. If you don’t, its fine…I’m glad there are multiple platforms that fit each persons need.
Apple is not innovating anymore… and yet somehow everyone is still copying them. Even if those features are not at all innovative or not even new. Apple does it – Samsung follow…
So Samsung ripped off Apple … who in fact ripped off Amazon, Flux and others … riiiiiiight nice story.
Yep. This is a pretty silly story – take the least significant feature for the Note 7 and turn it into a “Samsung copies Apple” diatribe. Not much exciting happening in Apple-land, eh?
As usual, Apple implementation is always based on inspiration, but Samsung blatantly copies one-to-one. If people can’t see the difference, I feel sorry for their blindness.
You mean stealing.
Naughty monkey, you have no clue. Stop reading junkies.
How many different ways can you design a widget ? People seem to think a new design is innovation. It’s not. Really all you can do at this point is add “features” and hope it’s enough to attact buyers
Um, the “F.Lux” app, which came before Apple’s implementation? The Android App “Twilight,” which does the same thing and came out first? Apple’s “inspiration” here was already-available apps for Mac, PC and Android.
You can’t reason with a sheep!
Apple ripped off F.lux so who cares its a feature that needs to be on all phones for people’s well being
If you care to read the tech behind it, F.lux and Apple Night Shify are not the same – while Samsung Night Shift is an exact copy of how Apple’s one work. But as usual, trolls loves to comment things they only know superficially or worse, not at all.
F.lux was more drastic with their blue curve, though it could be edited by the user. Actually, this sums up the rest of what I was going to say…the ONLY differences are that Apple takes the controls out of the hands of the user and puts in only a single button as opposed to three screens of controls…that most people won’t touch anyways.
So, Apple copies other companies and Samsung offers a feature that Apple stole from a developer and you call it Samsung stealing from Apple? Seriously learn proper journalism or just stick to click bait.
Which Apple ripped off from a developer
I’ve noticed a pattern on this and other apple fan sites.
Whenever there’s a new and exciting device or service announced or released, this site posts the most absurd and juvenile articles.
Apple didn’t invent this feature, they were never first to use it, banned it from the app store, stole it but somehow Samsung is copying apple?
When iOS got split screen, power saving and picture in picture you didn’t say they copied Samsung.
When the iPhone gets an OLED display, wireless charging and water and dust resistance what will you say then?
“Galaxy Note 7 rips off iPhone’s Night Shift mode”
And Apple’s so-called “Night Shift” is a •direct• ripoff of the f.lux jailbreak tweak many of us have been using for years. By the way, for those who wish to warm up their bluish Mac displays, f.lux is a free program to do just that. It will warm things up based on location, or a time set by the user. Very cool (no pun intended) for people who use their Macs well into the evening. Definitely easier on the eyes.
For all you people who seem to think F.lux invented blue filtering on monitors, I’m sorry to say you need to do your research. Apple has never banned F.lux on the Mac (even when they don’t have a signed developer account so you have to specially right click it to get it to work) but Apple banned in on iOS because NO THIRD PARTY APP is allowed to control global settings on an iPhone period. Just like Spotify, F.lux cannot be made an exception just because people love it. F.lux even went one step further by trying to side-load its app which should have gotten them a lifetime ban, but Apple just politely told them to stop first.
Regarding “copying.” Doesn’t anyone think it’s a little coincidental that Samsung comes out with this feature right after it was released on iOS. Same as Samsung Pay, Samsung Wallet, etc. The point is Samsung takes ideas of things that Apple introduces into iOS (Whether they ‘invented it’ or not) and puts it in the next release after Apple. That is copying.
Apple ripped off the Note’s multiwindow multitasking feature and power saving mode. Any sheep discussed it here? nope. It’s considered blasphemy.