In my case, I leave these off for all of the computers I use, but I’m OK with leaving them on for my iPhone and iPad. Therefore, if you take a screen grab with True Tone or Night Shift set very cool or warm, the screen grab itself will still be neutral. They don’t actually change the image itself.
It’s important to note that these settings only affect the way the image is displayed on the screen. This applies to editing, color correction, art, photography, etc. If you are doing anything that involves judging color, the LAST thing you want to use is True Tone or Night Shift. The screen doesn’t register in your mind as being obviously warm. However, your brain adjusts to the color temperature shift of the display when using something like True Tone. If you are working with a lot of white on the screen, such as working with documents, then these modes do feel more comfortable on your eyes (at least for me). Typically the display will appear warmer at night or in a dimmer room.
Nevertheless, they do have a pleasing effect, because these features make the display warmer or cooler based on the time of day or the color temperature of the ambient light in the room. In effect, checking against an iPhone has become the modern video analog of the Auratone sound cubes. As editors or colorists, we often ask clients to evaluate the image on an Apple device, not because they are perfect (they aren’t), but rather because they are the best of the many options out in the consumer space.
In fact, thanks to Apple’s color management, videos played back on iPads and iPhones do approximate the correct look of your master file. Generally that means Apple iPhones or iPads. Today, smart phones and tablets have become the video equivalent of that cheap hi-fi set-up. TV show re-recording mixers would also use these to check a mix in order to hear how it would translate to home TV sets. These small, single speaker monitors, which some mixers dubbed “awful-tones,” were intended to provide a representation of the mix as it would sound on radios and cheaper hi-fi audio set-ups. Historically, a common item in most recording studios was a set of Auratone sound cubes.
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