The Apple Watch has a hidden feature to enable Night Shift on the device, a Reddit user recently discovered. If you ask Siri on Apple Watch to turn on ‌Night Shift‌, ‌Siri‌ will do so and the display will turn a more muted yellow shade that reduces blue light exposure.
It’s unclear how long ‌Siri‌ has been able to activate ‌Night Shift‌ on the Apple Watch, but it appears to be recently. Apple has no documentation on ‌Night Shift‌ on the Apple Watch, and it was not previously an option in watchOS 10. It is possible that ‌Night Shift‌ is tied to watchOS 11, but not limited to ‌watchOS 11‌ devices. We were able to use this feature on Apple Watch Series 9 with ‌watchOS 10‌ installed.
Activating ‌Night Shift‌ can only be done through ‌Siri‌, and there is no toggle in the Apple Watch Settings app or anywhere else on the device. ‌Siri‌ mentions scheduling ‌Night Shift‌ in the Settings app, but that’s not currently an option in ‌watchOS 10‌ or ‌watchOS 11‌.
‌Night Shift‌ doesn’t appear to be available on all Apple Watch models, with Reddit users unable to activate it on the Series 5 and below.
The ability to suddenly turn on ‌Night Shift‌ without an accompanying setting suggests that this is a feature that was introduced by mistake, and the switch could be introduced in a future version of ‌watchOS 11‌ or the upcoming ‌watchOS 10‌ update.
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