The flashlight of the Apple Watch has a red option, and it is for a reason that you surely did not know.
Few know but the Apple Watch includes a flashlight that can help us in many circumstances, especially when we are in situations of low light conditions. The logical thing would be to think that white is the ideal color for a flashlight, but one of the Apple Watch flashlight options has a red color for a reason that practically everyone does not know.
The Apple Watch flashlight has three positionsone with white color, another with white color that flashes emitting the SOS signal and another position in color deep red.
How to access the Apple Watch flashlight
The Apple Watch flashlight is located in the Control Center of the small device, this you must do to activate it:
- Swipe from the bottom to the top of the Apple Watch screen.
- Tap on the flashlight icon.
- Slide to the sides to fix one of the 3 types of flashlight, the last one is red.
Why is there a red flashlight option on Apple Watch?
Apple has never disclosed why it offers a red Apple Watch flashlight option. Although the reason for this option is known. The white light that we get from the flashlight of the iPhone or Apple Watch is a brighter optionbut there are situations where this is not ideal.
The normal thing is that Let’s use the Apple Watch flashlight when light conditions are low, and at this point our eyes are accustomed and our pupils dilated. It can be said that our eyes are in night mode.
If at that moment we activate the white light of the Apple Watch, our eyes will interpret it as daylight, our pupils will close and as soon as we turn off the flashlight we will not see anything. Nevertheless, with the red light we won’t lose that night vision by affecting the pupils of our eyes less.
Also, the red light will affect less other people who may be asleep or who are next to us in the cinema or theater. In fact, with the theater mode of the Apple Watch activated, pressing the default flashlight will appear in red.
Summarizing, red light affects our night vision less and also does not affect other people that may be asleep, making it ideal for use at night while lighting the way or looking for something in a dark room.