Visual or ocular fatigue is one of the great evils of our times and the main cause is the screens of our devices. Fortunately, thanks to the advances in Android and especially MIUI, we have several ways to reduce this fatigue .
We explain all the functions that are in Xiaomi from MIUI 12 to protect your eyes from fatigue . But first, let’s understand a little why this tiredness happens.
Tricks to avoid visual fatigue in Xiaomi
Many Xiaomi devices (such as those of the POCO or Redmi brands) have screen configurations that stress our eyes , for example, they maintain a constant flicker, although it is imperceptible, which ends up stressing the eyes.
Similarly, blue light and inadequate lighting are not good companions for a stressed eye. But we can always lessen those stressful events in the following ways .
How to activate anti-flicker mode
Flicker is the frequency at which the backlight changes (in the case of LCD panels) for a pixel or group of pixels. Normally, it hovers at frequencies above 60 Hz, which would be totally imperceptible to our vision, but it can still stress our eyes .
This can be reduced by turning on the anti-flicker feature that Xiaomi offers , which essentially increases the Hz in the backlight refresh rate slightly, it also decreases the difference in Hz and voltage between each line of pixels. You just have to do the following:
- Open the ” Settings ” on your device, once there select the “Display” option.
- Now click on where it says ” Anti-flicker mode “. You will enter a new menu where you must select the “Anti- flicker ” option.
- Please note that since some MIUI 12 updates the anti-flicker function may not be available .
Turn on anti-flicker in VR mode
Due to the inherent demands of the Android virtual reality mode, the screen flicker rate increases while the mode is in use . You have the option to reduce that flickering at the cost of increasing the blur of the images a little, you just have to do this:
- Within the ” Settings ” menu of your device, select the ” Display ” option.
- Once there, scroll to the system options and click where it says ” When the device is in VR mode “.
- A new menu will open in which you will find two options, you must choose the one that says ” Reduce flickering “.
Set reading mode
The reading mode is a special function which reduces the intensity of the brightness of the screen and also decreases the amount of blue light that it emits (because of this it obtains a sepia color or a warmer tone once it is activated). This mode is available on Xiaomi and can be activated with the following steps:
- Once you are in the settings menu of your device, click on the ” Screen ” option.
- Within the new menu, select the ” Reading mode ” option to enter that submenu.
- New options will be displayed, so if you activate reading mode by clicking on the slider button right next to it, an adjustment bar will be displayed below . You can also program the activation of reading mode.
- Another way to activate reading mode is by clicking on the eye-shaped icon from the control center.
Adjust the brightness level on the screen
The ideal is to avoid continuous exposure to a very bright panel , the problem is that the opposite case can also make it difficult for us to focus, which leads to visual stress. We can reach an intermediate point just by activating the automatic brightness mode that Xiaomi offers :
- Swipe your finger across the screen from the top edge of the screen to open the control center. If you have the new version activated, you will have to slide your finger from the upper right portion of the screen.
- Now you just have to click on the icon with a capital “A” to activate the automatic brightness .
- You can also activate this function from the ” Brightness level ” menu in the ” Display ” option in the settings of your device.
- Keep in mind that even if this mode is activated, you will still be able to make minor adjustments to the intensity of the brightness that the system sets.
Now that you know how the light from the panels of digital devices affects your eyes, do not hesitate to use all the functions that Xiaomi has to protect yourself .
How do digital device screens affect our eyes?
There are many ways in which the light emitted by the panels of digital devices stresses our eyes, and while the technical data is truly fascinating, it is quite complex for the non-specialist reader to understand. Despite this, we can summarize these stressful mechanisms in the following :
- Changes in brightness intensity affect different parts of the perceiving eye differently. All this forces this complex organ to continuously accommodate itself to achieve focus , in the long run this effort stresses it.
- Apart from this, prolonged exposure to the blue light emitted by our digital devices is associated with increased eye fatigue. In addition to affecting the complex night and day system that our brain stores in order to establish the hours of sleep.
While the best way to avoid all this strain on our eyes is to simply reduce the hours of exposure and perhaps use lenses with panels that block blue light, it is not always an option.
For this reason, it is always good to take advantage of the screen adjustment functions of our digital devices to make them more friendly to our eyes.
