How to Fix Night Shift Stuck Enabled in Mac OS

How to Fix Night Shift Stuck Enabled in Mac OS

Is your Mac screen looking strangely orange from being stuck on, even during daylight hours when Night Shift should be off? It may be rare and its not clear what causes Night Shift to sometimes get stuck enabled on a Mac, but when it does happen its pretty obvious because the screen colors shift to be very warm despite being a time when its not supposed to be enabled. If you find Night Shift is stuck enabled on your Mac, heres how you can quickly fix that problem and get your screen colors to look normal again. This troubleshooting guide obviously assumes that you have . If Night Shift is not enabled, then it would not be possible to get stuck into Night Shift mode and any perception of color changes would be something different, relating to the , or perhaps a third party app like Flux. Thats it, simply fiddling with the warmth slider tends to fix Night Shift being stuck on the warm color mode in Mac OS. Curiously, turning the entire feature off and on seems to do nothing if the warming screen color feature is stuck on. This is pretty rare and shouldnt happen often, it seems to occur when a Mac is used at night with Night Shift on, then put to sleep and woken in daylight hours, where it sometimes doesnt realize its time to turn off. Even with this rare and minor nuisance I personally recommend , setting a custom schedule or using from sunset to sunrise, with the warmest setting possible, seems to have the best results for eye fatigue and theoretical sleep improvement, but you can use it however youd like. For Macs without Night Shift support, you can also . This obviously applies to the Mac, but a similar curiosity can happen on the iPhone and iPad too if or . Also for iPhone and iPad, which can be corrected, and the True Tone feature can give a similar appearance as Night Shift, and or can stop the screen looking warm when Night Shift is not on.