Night Shift is altering color profile?

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Night Shift is altering color profile?

I've updated my Macbook Air (mid 2012) and I have notice that some grays are looking warmer, and that particularly #fafafa is looking more pink than gray. Strangely, I've discovered that this color error gets fixed if I play a fullscreen YouTube video for a few seconds. Nonetheless, the problem comes back after I put the screen to sleep or when I move the slider of the new Night Shift, which is set to off.

Can this be Night Shift related? If so, can I go back to the previous Sierra version?

Regards,

Rolando

MacBook, macOS Sierra (10.12.4)

Posted on Apr 1, 2017 8:22 PM

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Answer 1

Apr 1, 2017 8:32 PM in response to rolandoleal

That's what night shift does if you enable it. It shifts the color temperature of the display to be warmer because blue light can keep you awake if you look at it too long before bed. You can set it to turn on and off on a schedule or you can just enable it or disable it. Are you saying that the color profile stays warm even if you disable night shift completely?

How to use Night Shift on your Mac - Apple Support

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Apr 1, 2017 8:55 PM in response to ALeonardoA

Yes Night Shift is off, and the screen looks fine except for those grays than seems to be off or uncalibrated, until I do that strange workaround with fullscreen videos. I would like to test it in the previous version of Sierra to see if it still happens, but I don't know if that is possible.

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Answer 3

Apr 1, 2017 9:10 PM in response to rolandoleal

Hm, I'm not sure why that would be happening, I'm sorry. I don't believe there is a simple way to downgrade other than perhaps restoring the phone to factory settings, and even then I wouldn't be able to tell you for sure if that's a good solution because it seems like a rather drastic measure. Personally, I would try to resolve the issue with 10.3 instead of downgrading. Perhaps someone with more experience can come along and help.

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