The visual or eye fatigue It is one of the great evils of our times and the main cause is the screens of our devices. Luckily, thanks to advances in Android and especially MIUI, we have several ways to reduce such fatigue.
We explain all the functions that are in Xiaomi from MIUI 12 to protect our eyesight from fatigue. But first, let’s understand a little why this tiredness happens.
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How do digital device screens affect our eyes?
The light from all digital screens can affect us, it’s just that some tend to do it more than others. The LED, LCD and AMOLED panels of a mobile do not affect us as much, but we expose ourselves for a longer time.
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 to achieve focusIn the long run, this effort stresses him out.
- Apart from this, the prolonged exposure to blue light emitted by our digital devices is associated with greater 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 hours of exposure and using glasses with panels that block blue light may not always be an option.
For this, it is always good take advantage of the screen adjustment functions of our digital devices to make them friendlier to our eyes.
Tricks to avoid visual fatigue in Xiaomi
There is no worse combination than a dark room and a very bright mobile, protect yourself with the Xiaomi functions that we explain how to activate below.
Many Xiaomi devices (such as POCO or Redmi brands) they have screen configurations that stress our eyesightfor example, they keep blinking constantly, 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 decrease those stressful events in the following ways.
How to activate anti-flicker mode
blinking is the how often the backlight changes (in the case of LCD panels) of a pixel or group of them. Normally, it hovers at frequencies above 60 Hz, which would be totally imperceptible to our vision, but even so can stress our eyes.
This can be reduced activating the anti-flicker function offered by Xiaomi, which essentially slightly increases the Hz in the backlight refresh rate, also decreases the difference in Hz and voltage between each line of pixels. You just have to do the following:
- Opens “Setting» on your device, once there, select the «Screen» option.
- Now click on where it says «anti-flicker mode«. You will enter a new menu where you must select the option «anti-flicker«.
- Please note that for some MIUI 12 updates the anti-flicker function may not be available.
Activate anti-flicker in VR mode
Due to the inherent demands of the Android virtual reality mode, the screen flicker rate increases while in use mode. You have the option to reduce that flickering at the cost of increasing the blurring of the images a little, you just have to do this:
- Within the menu of «Setting» of your device, select the option «Screen«.
- 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 flicker«.
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 it emits (because of this it gets a sepia color or a warmer tone once activated). This mode is available on Xiaomi and can be activated with the following steps:
- Once you are inside the settings menu of your device, click on the option «Screen«.
- Within the new menu select the option «reading mode» 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 icon from the control center.
Adjust the brightness level on the screen
ideal is 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 a middle ground only with activate the automatic brightness mode offered by Xiaomi:
- Swipe your finger across the screen from the top edge of it 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 turn on auto brightness.
- You can also activate this function from the «brightness level» in the option of «Screen» in your device settings.
- Keep in mind that even if this mode is activated, it is still you can make minor adjustments to the brightness intensity that the system establishes.
Now that you know how the light from the panels of digital devices affects our eyes, don’t hesitate to use all the functions that Xiaomi has to protect you.
