With iPhone we can greatly reduce eye strain by using some functions aimed at reducing eye strain
If we notice that, when using the phone, our eyes are particularly tired and red at the end of the evening, it is time to use the new functions eye protection present on all modern iPhones, easy to configure and very effective for reducing eye strain.
The special functions Distance from the screen e Night Shift they are both available on the latest iPhone models (such as iPhone 14 Pro and iPhone 15 Pro) and by installing thelatest version of the iOS operating system (at the time of writing iOS 17).
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1) Turn on Screen distance
The function Distance from the screen was introduced with iOS 17 and allows us to monitor the distance at which we hold the phone, so as to use it without tiring our eyes (also protecting against the risk of myopia for children).
To activate the Distance from screen function, open the app Settings on iPhone, we press on the menu Usage timelet’s press on Enable screen time (if we have never done it before) and select the item Distance from the screen. In the window that appears, click on Continues and click Continue again to activate the eye distance detection function.
After activation the iPhone will monitor the distance of our eyes, ensuring that the user uses the phone at a distance minimum distance of 30 centimetres.
The function will work when we unlock the phone or when we bring it too close during daily use, showing us a warning about the close range; the warning can be ignored by pressing the button Continues after a few seconds or by immediately moving the phone away.
The feature does not store any data on the phone and does not share any information with external servers or services; it is available as an additional function and does not affect user privacy; if we consider the function useless, just follow the same steps seen above to deactivate the switch next to the item Distance from the screen.
2) Activate Night Shift
Another very useful function to protect the eyes from eye fatigue is Night Shift, designed to provide more relaxing colors for the screen during the night hours. This function has been present for some versions of iOS and can be configured on any iPhone updated at least up to iOS 16.
To use the function on iPhone we open the app Settingslet’s get into the menu Screen and brightnesswe press on the menu Night Shift and we activate the voice Scheduled. Now let’s choose the time in which to make the most of this functionality.
In this screen we can leave the voice From dusk to dawnto let the system do it, or press on Personalized programming and choose the start and end dates yourself.
On the screen Night Shift we can also temporarily activate the function (Enable until tomorrow) and also change the color temperature to be applied to the screen (choosing a warmer or less warm color).
3) More functions to reduce eye strain
Other useful functions to protect your eyes from tiredness with iPhone are the following:
- Night mode: to switch to dark-toned windows during the night hours, combining them with Night Shift; can be activated by Settings -> Display and brightness.
- True Tone: dynamically adapts screen colors to ambient light conditions; this function can also be activated from Settings -> Display and brightness.
- Monochrome mode: to avoid excessive eye tiredness we can activate the black and white screen during the night hours; to activate this function let’s go to the path Settings -> Accessibility -> Display and text size -> Color filterswe activate the voice and set Greyscale.
To learn more we can read our guide on how to put black and white phone screen on phones.
We can learn more about night mode by reading the article on how to turn on night mode on iPhone and iPad for reading in the dark.
Conclusions
Using the advice in this guide we will drastically reduce eye fatigue, especially if we use the phone too close to our eyes or if we spend more than two hours continuously with our head close to the iPhone screen.
It is certainly the most innovative Screen distancebut the other functions will also help the user avoid eye fatigue.
On the same topic we can read our guides on how to protect your eyesight if your PC screen bothers your eyes come on how to change screen brightness and colors on Android automatically.