Every day, we all find ourselves looking at a screen for long moments at a time. A good way to protect your eyes is by keeping a distance. While this is helpful for large display screens like billboards, TVs or restaurant menus, its limited on the main devices used today: smartphones.
Protect your eyes and keep your sleep schedule by limiting blue light emissions, which confuses sleep hormones to think it is still day time, at night using the night mode or blue screen filter.
While there are many apps that accomplish this, this option may also be available in your device settings. We’ll help you go into Settings and locate them in either iPhone or Android.
Reduce Blue Light with iPhone’s Night Shift
On iPhone, you can reduce colors and blue light with the Night Shift feature. It’s accessible within the Settings app under Settings > Display & Brightness or in the Control Center. You can enable or set it on a schedule.
It automatically adjusts the color tempatures displayed depending on the time of day. Less blue light could men more sleep. Learn more about iPhone’s Night Shift here.
Android
On Android, where this option is within your Settings may vary depending on manufacturer.
Go into Settings > Display > find an option for Night Mode, Night Light. Blue Light or similar wording.
You may also find it in the notification center. Some devices may instead offer a Blue Light Filter option which is similar. It can be also found in the display settings or in the notification center.
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