I suspect both helped, and maybe the latter even more. True Tone is easier on my eyes than my 6s without it.
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iPhone XR Eye Strain on iPhoneXR?
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I suspect both helped, and maybe the latter even more. True Tone is easier on my eyes than my 6s without it.
After using it for two days, turning it off produces a color very unpleasant to my eyes. I have no doubt that it's helping to some degree.
A friend and I compared our phones this evening--his Samsung Note 8 and my XR. He really liked the display of the XR with True Tone. "It's like reading on paper--easy on the eyes," he said, and I agreed. He preferred the XR to the Note 8 and said he is going back to his iPhone 8.
The longer I use the XR, the more I like it. It's a keeper.
The longer I use the XR, the more I like it. It's a keeper.
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Just got in from a long road trip. I watched three hours of movies and videos and did some reading.
I used Face ID, with the setting toggled so it doesn’t need to scan my eyes to unlock. I have Attention Awareness off. I’m doing well. I wore my glasses and kept the phone away from my face.
My previous bad habit was to have my glasses off and my 8 Plus close up to my face...not as close as some people report holding their phones, but probably too close for optimum health. So anyway it’s a healthier distance now.
I find 720p setting for YouTube is pleasant.
I had very low brightness on and could still see my movie very well in the car with a lot of sunlight streaming in.
Battery life is insane on this phone. Wow.
I’m very relieved to report there isn’t any of the usual sign of migraine on the horizon. No eye socket pain like I got with Samsung iris scanning, either. I don’t like the idea of my eyes getting bombarded with any kind of concentrated light. But at least this is not causing me horrible pain like iris scanning did. I’m definitely not having the weird visual issues I had with pwm.
I still think my 8 Plus display makes for the best vision comfort. But this Xr display will do nicely.
I used Face ID, with the setting toggled so it doesn’t need to scan my eyes to unlock. I have Attention Awareness off. I’m doing well. I wore my glasses and kept the phone away from my face.
My previous bad habit was to have my glasses off and my 8 Plus close up to my face...not as close as some people report holding their phones, but probably too close for optimum health. So anyway it’s a healthier distance now.
I find 720p setting for YouTube is pleasant.
I had very low brightness on and could still see my movie very well in the car with a lot of sunlight streaming in.
Battery life is insane on this phone. Wow.
I’m very relieved to report there isn’t any of the usual sign of migraine on the horizon. No eye socket pain like I got with Samsung iris scanning, either. I don’t like the idea of my eyes getting bombarded with any kind of concentrated light. But at least this is not causing me horrible pain like iris scanning did. I’m definitely not having the weird visual issues I had with pwm.
I still think my 8 Plus display makes for the best vision comfort. But this Xr display will do nicely.
That’s a prest post, GrumpyMom. Excellent! We’re happy that you’re not having to deal pain and other discomfort due to your phone.
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You can turn on the zoomed screen option to make your XR display the same amount of info as a plus phone and the fonts are bigger.
Its under display and brightness.
Hope this helps
Zoomed mode doesn’t change the size of the fonts in safari.
Yep, it ever so slightly makes text in Safari bigger. The odd thing is that increasing font size in settings does nothing to alter the text in Safari.
The key is that you are holding the phone further from your face. I believe that close holders generally (not always) suffer from PWM more than far holders. This is the point that most people miss. People should state whether they are close holders or far holders when they comment on phones.
It does. Ironically, it makes it the ‘normal’ size of the XS. What’s unfortunate is that changing text size in settings doesn’t change the text size. For XR it’s really small text size in Standard or normal size text using Zoomed.
One of the main things that puts me off trying the XR (currently on Android) is how small I keep hearing the font is. Yes there is display zoom and dynamic font but it seems the XR is overall smaller in the first place and whereas on Android the browser font size can be changed, for some reason on iPhone it can't and safari always stays tiny
Well I did use my glasses and hold far away for my Max. It was the first thing I tried. That won’t help pwm. That I am sure of.
There's many easy ways around the issue. There's javascript you can use to increase and decrease font size, and there's also a couple web browsers on the app store that allow for font size changing.
You could always go back and edit your previous incorrect post, so people don't read it and get the wrong idea.
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What distance makes one a close holder or far holder of a phone? Honest question.
As for not being able to change the font size in Safari... I have the javascript Macinjosh writes about. It works and sits in your favourites bar. I did it many years ago though so can't remember how I did it. Found instructions for it on the net.
There's a font size thread here from last week that links to those Javascript bookmarks. I found it to be very useful.
I know you’ve done a lot of back and forth comparing, and I think you’re generally right about display zoom of the XR making text the same as standard XS. Technically and spec-wise, it’s ever so slightly larger, but it’s probably virtually indistinguishable.
But your point is well taken. I can read MacRumors on XR standard, but I prefer zoom. Zoom, for me, is a nice size without being large. Some forums, though, are too small. I’ve got to check out that font thread.
I didn´t feel eye strain but I can say that being back to my 7 is now better.
iPhone X: too much eye strain just after a few seconds of using it.
iPhone XR: no eyestrain but sometimes I felt a little annoyance, can´t tell exactly why.
iPhone 7: nothing nothing nothing
I didn't use Face ID, just the code to unlock, but I didn't cover the front camera with tape.
iPhone X: too much eye strain just after a few seconds of using it.
iPhone XR: no eyestrain but sometimes I felt a little annoyance, can´t tell exactly why.
iPhone 7: nothing nothing nothing
I didn't use Face ID, just the code to unlock, but I didn't cover the front camera with tape.