Shifty Changelog

What's new in Shifty 1.1.2

Aug 12, 2019
  • Fixes an issue that causes Shifty to crash on launch on macOS 10.14.6 and later

New in Shifty 1.1.1 (May 22, 2019)

  • Fixes an issue that may cause Shifty to crash after waking from sleep

New in Shifty 1.1 (May 13, 2019)

  • Adds French and Russian language support
  • Adds support for Website Shifting with Opera
  • Changing the color temperature with the slider is now more responsive
  • Adds support for command-dragging the menu item out of the menu to quit
  • If automation permissions for a browser are not allowed, a menu item will be shown communicating this
  • Fixes an issue that sometimes caused Shifty to not save your disable settings correctly
  • Fixes an issue that caused automatic dark mode to not be set on launch
  • Fixes an issue that caused update prompts to not show

New in Shifty 1.0.2 (Jan 22, 2019)

  • Fixes an issue with Website Shifting that caused Google Chrome to reopen when quit

New in Shifty 1.0.1 (Dec 30, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue that caused Shifty to use more memory than it should
  • Fixes an issue that caused the app to crash in some instances

New in Shifty 1.0 (Oct 15, 2018)

  • Adds support for German and Chinese (Simplified)
  • Adds keyboard shortcuts that toggle Dark Mode and True Tone
  • Adds support for the Dark Mode interface in macOS Mojave
  • Fixes an issue that caused scheduled Dark Mode to not toggle Dark Mode
  • Reintroduces Website Shifting support for full screen videos in Safari
  • Improves the reliability of Website Shifting
  • Adds preference to disable app analytics
  • Updated app icon to celebrate leaving beta!
  • Adds preference to disable True Tone when Night Shift is disabled for apps and websites:
  • Requires a Mac that supports True Tone
  • Adds menu item for toggling toggle True Tone

New in Shifty 0.5.2 Beta (Aug 2, 2018)

  • This version includes a significant rewrite of the core logic. Finally!
  • Some bugs related to how Shifty controls Night Shift are fixed. Most notably:
  • manually overriding the Night Shift schedule now works as intended
  • fixed instances where disabling for apps doesn't work

New in Shifty 0.5.1 Beta (Jan 11, 2018)

  • Fixes an issue with disabling for websites with full-screen videos in Safari
  • Fixes an issue with Night Shift being set to the incorrect state after it is disabled for an app
  • Fixes an issue that caused the app to be displayed in a partial, broken Chinese translation when the system language is set to Chinese

New in Shifty 0.5 Beta (Jan 4, 2018)

  • Adds website shifting! Night Shift can now be disabled for individual websites in supported browsers.
  • Fixes an issue that caused Night Shift to be incorrectly enabled on wake.
  • Removes location requirement for Sunset to Sunrise schedule. Now, Shifty gets sunrise and sunset times from where they're stored in the system so it no longer needs your location to calculate them.
  • Website shifting supports:
  • Safari
  • Chrome
  • Vivaldi

New in Shifty 0.4 Beta (Nov 21, 2017)

  • Added customizable global shortcuts for common actions.
  • New option to change icon based on Night Shift state.
  • Completely redesigned Preferences menu.
  • Fixes an issue where the location cannot be determined on some systems.

New in Shifty 0.3 Beta (Nov 2, 2017)

  • macOS dark mode can now be automatically set based on the Night Shift schedule.
  • Night Shift schedule settings can now be set from within Shifty's preferences window.
  • The slider can now be operated by scrolling.
  • Fixes an issue where Night Shift is sometimes not set to the correct state after being disabled in Shifty.
  • Because of the dark mode feature and the above issue, Shifty now requests your location when using the Sunset to Sunrise schedule. This is to calculate the sunset and sunrise times based on your location. Your location is not and will never be shared.

New in Shifty 0.2 Beta (Aug 13, 2017)

  • Changes:
  • added handling schedule when disabled for app
  • added more favicons and finally fixed screenshot
  • fixed SUUpdater (hopefully) and updated appcast
  • update link to appcast
  • adds Sparkle for seamless updating
  • fixes #2 bug with disabling menu items and fixes disabled countdown
  • added analytics
  • added about window and fixed some bugs
  • added formatter for text fields and fixed bug with changing things while window is open
  • added disable for custom time!
  • added disable for app
  • replaced icons and added alert for OS versions older than 10.12.4
  • added countdown for disabled time and auto launch on login works
  • added menu item displaying schedule and changed auto launch around, but that still doesn't work
  • finished core shifting functionality
  • Known Issues:
  • Scheduled end of Night Shift is not detected when disabled for app or time. This causes Night Shift to be enabled when it should be off as per the schedule.