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Reduce eye strain by turning off blue light on your iPhone
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Are you experiencing eye strain from the blue light on your iPhone? iOS has built-in features to help reduce eye strain, such as Night Shift and Dark Mode. These can easily be enabled in your settings. Here's how to turn off blue light on your iPhone and how it can affect your health.
Quick Steps
- Open Settings .
- Tap Display & Brightness .
- Tap Night Shift .
- Toggle on Scheduled .
- Set a scheduled time.
Steps
Section 1 of 3:
Using Night Shift
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Open the Settings app. This is the grey cog.
- Night Shift automatically adjusts your display to warmer colors to reduce eye strain from your iPhone. [1] X Research source
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Tap Display & Brightness . You can find this underneath General and Control Center .Advertisement
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Tap Night Shift . You can find this underneath the Brightness slider.
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Tap From/To to set a time. You can set an automatic option, such as Sunset to Sunrise , or select Custom Schedule to specify your own start and end time.
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Section 2 of 3:
Enabling Dark Mode
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Open the Settings app. This is the grey cog.
- Dark Mode switches your iPhone's navigation to a darker color scheme . This can help reduce eye strain , especially at night.
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Tap Display & Brightness . You can find this underneath General and Control Center .
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Tap Dark . This is on the right side of Light . Your settings will be saved.
- If desired, you can toggle on Automatic to change to Dark Mode on a schedule.
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