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Here we go again. Parents are on high alert for another COVID outbreak as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) announced that another omicron subvariant is gaining a foothold in the United States.
A recent study published in the journal
Sleep Health calls into question the efficacy of Apple s Night Shift feature in iPhones. The study tracked the sleep of 167 people, ages 18 to 24, to see if filtering out blue light had any discernable effect on rest. The results can be extrapolated to the Windows 10 Night light feature and Night Light on Android, which rely on the same underlying assumptions about filtering out blue light.
The study itself is fascinating, if only because it is one of the only large-scale investigations to address the subject. The experiment had three randomly assigned conditions which involved 60 minutes of iPhone use before bed with Night Shift (set to max), without Night Shift, and a third group told to abstain from the iPhone usage (and all light-emitting devices) before bed. Participants had their phones monitored using an app called Moment, sleep outcomes were measured using Actigraph GT3X+ wrist-worn accelerometers, and participants were instructed