iPhone XR Best setting to avoid eye strain in Iphone XR in low light conditions?

[shankar2]

Hi I have an Iphone XR now and I read in low light conditions or even during night. Is there anyone who can tell me the optimum settings to avoid eye strain? It's a problem now. Should I just turn on the light and read? Or some other rec. settings? Please advise! Thanks much!

 

[shankar2]

Does dark mode in apps help in low light or dark (night) room?

 

[forestinjersey]

Are you reading on the Kindle app?, you can change bacground colour, pageb brightness etc in the app settings.

 

[reppans]

I do quite a bit of surfing/reading in bed and am a big night vision guy. Yes, dark modes (white letters on black background) helps a lot, brightness set at near lowest levels, and I have True Tone and Night Shift on too.

However one of the best things for night reading is using bounced ambient light from a dim flashlight - ‘moonlight mode’ or <1 lumen - bounced off the wall behind my head. If you really want to get technical, get a high CRI (color rendering index) tint like a Nichia 219 emitter.

This provides background lighting in your field of view so minimizing the contrast to the lit phone screen. An example of this is watching your TV in a pitch black room (painful) vs an evenly matched lit room (comfortable).

 

[now i see it]

Looking at any smartphone in a black room will give anyone eye strain. Either use a little flashlight or light to bounce light off the surrounding walls or just don't use it in the total darkness. A good rule of thumb is: if you can't read something on a printed page on paper, then it's too dark to comfortably use a smartphone