[vanilla_nut]

Christ. Can you imagine reading on a max brightness iPad in a dark room? I put my ereader (an actual ereader with an e-ink screen, not “ereader as in electronic thing you read on with a laptop screen” as in the article) on the lowest brightness setting with natural orange-tinted light. And I still feel like it’s pretty bright!

[tejohnso]

Same, and I can say at least for me, it unquestionably helps sleep, because I start to feel tired and go to sleep about 10 minutes after I start reading, whereas if I were to stay engaged with my desktop, I could easily stay up hours longer. I go to sleep earlier, and fall asleep faster, since adding my Kobo Forma to my evening routine.

[lbotos]

Same, I often find my iphone in a dark room on lowest brightness to be too bright if the page doesn't support dark mode.

[nicoburns]

There's an accessibility setting which you can use to further darken the screen. I have it set to toggle on a triple click of the home button.

[lbotos]

Reduce Whitepoint? Seems to have that effect but not sure if that's the one you are thinking.

[jseutter]

I think they're talking about the accesibility filters: https://9to5mac.com/2016/03/18/how-to-reduce-iphone-screen-b...

I used to use it daily just before going to sleep, but then found the app I read with has a white text on black background that I prefer. Using both at the same time makes it too dark for my eyes, which is a good problem to have.