How to Darken Your Phone Display (And Why It’s Important)

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2015-12-11 14:56

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Edited by Sharlton at 2015-12-11 12:33

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Our bright phone displays are ruining ourlives. Today, I’m going to explain how to darken your phone screen – and whyit’s so important to do so.

  • Stop Ruining your Sleep Cycles


There’s endless scientific evidence thatusing virtual screens late at night leads to unnatural sleep cycles.

Basically, our bodies are programmed towake up when it starts getting light outside and fall asleep when it startsgetting dark.
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Unfortunately, after it gets dark, most ofus just stay up on our computers, TVs, smartphones, and tablets. This tricksour eyes into thinking it’s still daylight, which can disrupt or circadian rhythm,yadda yadda yadda.

Unfortunately, Android’s built-in screenbrightness display only darkens your phone so much. When you’re using yourphone in a dark room, even the darkest setting can feel blinding to your eyes.

  • Stop Ruining your Eyes


You’re not just ruining your sleep cycleswhen you use a bright phone display. You’re also ruining your eyes.

Using a bright screen in a dark room forcesyour eyes to constantly adjust to two different levels of light. Over time,this can increase eye strain. It’s the same reason why people who work oncomputers all day tend to need glasses.

  • Save Battery Life


Even if you don’t care about your eyes oryour sleep cycles, you probably care about battery life. When your phone’sscreen is unnecessarily bright, you’re unnecessarily wasting battery life.

  • How to Dim Your Android Screen


The best way to dim your Android screen isto use various apps. Today, I’m going to recommend two popular apps you can useto protect your sleep cycles and your eyes.

  • Lux Lite


Lux Lite is available for free (there’salso a pro version). Both versions of the app let you adjust display brightnesslower than you would normally be able. The mid-point on Lux’s brightness scaleis 0%, which is about as dark as your smartphone can go on its own.
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By reducing light even further, say, to33%, you can save your eyes.

With Lux Lite, you can also configuresettings for day and night. You can choose to enter automatic night mode, wherethe app uses your GPS location to estimate sunup and sunset times. Or, you canmanually adjust brightness on the fly.

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Download Lux Lite for free here.

  • Twilight


Twilight was the first major app to worklike “f.lux for Android”. Twilight removes blue and white light from yourscreen, giving it the sensation of dimming beyond the regular darkest level.

When you dim Twilight as far as it can go,it gets really dim. Like, so dim you can barely see your screen in the darkest room.It’s fantastic for those who like to read in bed at night on their tablets.

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Twilight also puts a slider on yournotification shade, so you can easily adjust brightness whenever you like.

Other settings with Twilight include screendim, intensity, and color temperature. Want your screen to look bluer orredder? Adjust color temperature.

Like Lux Lite, Twilight also harmonizesyour screen’s display brightness with the rising and setting of the sun. Ituses your GPS data to identify your sunup and sunset times.

Download Twilight for free today from here.