How to Prevent Eye Strain When Using Smartphones Here’s Six Tips and Tricks to Follow Step Guide Details

Recently, an incident happened which proved that excessive use of smartphone can be dangerous for our eyes. Dr. Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist from Hyderabad, wrote an article in Medical Dialogues, about how a 30-year-old woman lost her eyesight due to her smartphone. He also listed some measures to avoid this in this article. He told how we can protect our eyes from stress or other diseases by using the smartphone properly. Here we are telling you some easy tips, by following which you can protect your eyes.

Tips to prevent eyes from stress and other dangers

Until a few years ago, smartphone technology was not very developed. However, today smartphone brands equip their devices with many display technologies that try to keep our eyes away from stress or other dangers. However, excessive use is dangerous for the eyes in any situation. Today, smartphones of almost all brands come equipped with dark mode. This is a kind of dark theme, which changes the background of apps or any screen to black or dark gray. This will prevent your eyes from getting stressed while using the smartphone or reading text in low light or darkness.

Blue light is also the biggest enemy of our eyes. Be it a smartphone or a laptop or a TV, all displays emit blue light. Exposure to blue light causes a lot of strain on our eyes. Be it Android smartphones or iPhones, nowadays all OEMs provide blue light filters on their smartphones with different names (named Night Shift in iPhones). Turning on this feature reduces the blue light emitted from the display and also reduces the strain on your eyes.

Excessive or low display brightness also puts strain on our eyes. Yes, we have used the word ‘low’ here. High brightness is dangerous for your eyes, and in some special circumstances, low brightness has a bad effect on your eyes. The solution to this is the ‘Auto Brightness’ feature, which automatically adjusts the brightness of your phone according to the external light.

Dr. Sudhir Kumar’s have to say Blinking regularly (for longer than a second) helps keep your eyes moist and reduces stress. Make sure you blink 10 to 20 times every half hour while using your phone. Blinking also helps your eyes refocus.

Make sure that the text size on your smartphone screen is large. Too small a size puts a lot of strain on the eyes to read the text. You can easily change the text size by going to the settings of your smartphone.

There is also a 20/20/20 rule. This means that every 20 minutes you need to look at something at least 20 feet away for at least 20 seconds. This can go a long way in protecting your eyes.