People get addicted to their phones to the point that it disrupts their sleep and harms their health. A bed mode is not going to change that. People need to recognise the damage their habits are doing and work to change them.
Actually a bed mode will make a substantial difference.
Looking at phones or laptops or whatever screens at nighttime suppresses melatonin, which leads to people not feeling sleepy when they should, which makes them much more likely to continue looking at their screen than if they became as tired as normal.
It’s certainly possible to stay up doing something without blue light (e.g. reading by candlelight or a dim incandescent flashlight), but blue light makes a huge difference, and actively fights people’s ability to exercise self control.
Working to change habits is all well and good, but instead of telling someone who habitually binges on candy and cookies to stop eating any snacks at all, period, it would be a more successful intervention to take the candy and cookies away and fill their refrigerator with carrot sticks.
In my experience, using a screen colour app just encourages me to use my phone more not less. Even with these apps a phone will still emit a large amount of blue light and having the light source so close to my face I still notice it disrupts my sleep.
If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all then why continue to maintain a that behaviour? Wouldn't it be much more beneficial to your health to avoid screens altogether at night? I'm not saying that it is easy but I believe it's a good healthy goal to aim for just like getting exercise and eating well.
To your point about unhealthy eating habits I totally agree. I just don't see phone addiction normally talked about as often as diet and exercise which is why I wanted to mention it.
If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all then why continue to maintain a that behaviour?
Paraphrasing from one of your previous posts, "if you really have to question every action that might be harmful then you would never go outside, put anything in your mouth, go to the bathroom etc. Your question really only makes sense when considering activities that have a relatively high risk of harm in which case the answer has to come down to two things. Firstly how harmful is this activity? And secondly, how much harm am I willing to take?"
If a bed mode is enough to make the disruption to one's sleep negligible, why not use the phone late at night?
> If you believe using your phone late at night is harmful to you at all
If you’re asking about me personally, I don’t use a smartphone at night. I thought we were talking about what actions smartphone vendors could take to help their customers’ health.
> Even with these apps a phone will still emit a large amount of blue light and having the light source so close to my face I still notice it disrupts my sleep.
If you use f.lux on a Mac, you can make it incredibly orange almost completely blocking out the "blue" channel on the display. It also includes a "darkroom" mode which inverts the display colors and turns black text on white into red text on black.
