The Apple Watch has a hidden feature for activating Night Shift on the device, a Reddit user recently discovered. If you ask Siri on the Apple Watch to turn on Night Shift, Siri will do so and the display will take on a dimmer, yellow tint that reduces blue light exposure.
It’s not clear how long Siri has been able to activate Night Shift on the Apple Watch, but it appears to be recent. Apple has no documentation for Night Shift on Apple Watch, and it wasn’t previously a watchOS 10 option. It is possible that Night Shift is tied to watchOS 11, but it is not limited to devices running watchOS 11. We were able to use the feature on an Apple Watch Series 9 with watchOS 10 installed.
Activating Night Shift can only be done via Siri and there is no switch in the Apple Watch Settings app or elsewhere on the device. Siri mentions scheduling Night Shift in the Settings app, but that isn’t an option in watchOS 10 or watchOS 11 at this time.
Night Shift doesn’t appear to be available on all Apple Watch models, as Reddit users can’t activate it on a Series 5 and below.
The option to suddenly enable Night Shift without an associated setting suggests that it is a feature introduced accidentally, and that the toggle could be introduced in a future version of watchOS 11 or an upcoming watchOS 10 update.
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