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iPhone's Screen Distance Feature on iOS 17 Can Help Reduce Eye Strain

Screen time exists. I turned on notifications for my YouTube and safari use. You know what I do? Snooze them. 🤦🏻‍♂️
Sevendaymelee said:
You know what it really needs to warn you about? Over use. As in, if you use it too long in one sitting, or too long over the course of a week, it warns you to get off the dang thing and go outside and live life.

But that won't happen.

Because money.
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It’s not about beaming photons directly into your eyes?
Verified Whiskey said:
Quoting you so more people see this. I thought this at first too, about the VR right next to your face, but in reality it tricks your brain into thinking it’s far away. It’s about focal length, not actually having it close to your eyeballs.
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I have been using it and actually really like it. My vision is good, however, when I read intently I guess I pull the phone closer to my face. I only have seemed to get the warning when I am deep in reading something.
 
Sevendaymelee said:
You know what it really needs to warn you about? Over use. As in, if you use it too long in one sitting, or too long over the course of a week, it warns you to get off the dang thing and go outside and live life.

But that won't happen.

Because money.
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Never heard of Screen Time?
 
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Love-hate 🍏 relationship said:
It is indeed quite hilarious
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It is not: holding a phone screen or a book too close will. Aude your eyes to strain on maintaining close focus.

The way VR or AR devices work, the optics in those create a visual experience which makes it appear as though all the things you are looking at are at a distance in the real world. Your eyes will not be trying to go for near focus…. Hence the effect is not the same.
 
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Jim Lahey said:
RE: Comments vis-à-vis Vision Pro, this may not be as it seems. I understand it’s the focal length that is the driving factor, not the distance to the actual screen/s per se. This is evidenced by near sighted people still needing to wear their prescription when using VR/AR, despite the source of the image being inches from their eyes.
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Finally someone with sense :)
 
patent10021 said:
This won't do anything for people that actually have a real problem with looking at phones.

They need a warning that says, "⚠️ Your phone uses PWM to manage the Pro Motion bs. Throw it away when you see a garbage can".
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PWM can be used to manage screen brightness it is not involved in refresh rate management (Promotion). Your statements are incorrect.
 
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4389842 said:
Finally someone with sense :)
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In all fairness, as I said to another poster, it’s an easy misunderstanding of how these things work. Most people don’t know and wouldn’t be expected to know. I do know, and Vision Pro was also my first thought before I put my brain into gear 👍
 
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kitKAC said:
Cue the cries of Apple nannying people. Screen Time is enough, if people can't abide by the limits that they set, that's on them.
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I agree that it's on them. People need to take responsibly for their own actions. But if I were in charge of Apple, I don't think I could continue to sell products that I know are causing brain damage to kids, depression, low-self esteem, exposing people to constant pulses of low-level radiation, eye strain and destroying everyone's hearing (among other things). To know all this (and they most certainly know), and to continue to sell these products... no. I just couldn't do it.

But then, that's why I don't have any money, and the boys and girls running this show live in mansions, drive Italian sports cars and can have any woman (or man) they please.

They don't have my clean conscious, though. They don't have that.
 
Without my reading glasses on, I have to hold my phone close(ish) to my face. This is actually more comfortable to me than wearing my glasses and holding it at arm's length, at least when I'm tired, such as first thing in the morning and before bed.

Apple's probably trying to push iPad sales. 😉
 
hybrid_x said:
Without my reading glasses on, I have to hold my phone close(ish) to my face. This is actually more comfortable to me than wearing my glasses and holding it at arm's length, at least when I'm tired, such as first thing in the morning and before bed.

Apple's probably trying to push iPad sales. 😉
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I understand the thrust of the argument is that too much close-up screen time can cause or accelerate myopia. Particularly in the young. Apple isn’t trying to make it easier for you to see your phone, it’s trying to help prevent short sightedness from ever developing. Or at least that is my take on it. Whether or not this will move the needle (I doubt it) is another matter, but it appears to be their rationale for adding this.
 
Taking responsibility for your own health is one thing. Manufacturing displays that are actually detrimental to human physiology is another.

Ever since I enabled the accessibility option "Reduce White Point" and set it to >85%, I haven't had any issues.

If it's after 6PM I also enable the accessibility option "Color Filters" and set it to red to cut all blue and green light.

These two settings are the key to using iPhones for people who are sensitive to the side effects of PWM.

Can't wait for the day all flavors of OLED die.
 
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