How to Easily Protect Your Eyes When Using Your Smartphone

There's no doubt that most of us are addicted to our smartphones. We tend to use them almost all day, and at all manner of time, including night when we should be asleep. We daily text and share messages and photos, we browse and download videos, images and audios. Really, we can't live without our mobile devices.

However, spending long time staring at a bright screen, especially at night when all the surrounding is dark, can be very harmful to the eyes. Mobile phones emit radiation that causes eye strain when you stare at the screen for a long time.

Nevertheless, there are certain things you can do to protect your eyes from damage when using your phone. Below are two easy methods you can try.

Turn on Eye care mode

A number of smartphones come with an Eye care mode feature. It will filter the blue light of the screen to protect your eyes. You can also adjust the filter according to your needs.

To turn on Eye care, go to Settings, click on Display settings and then toggle the Eyecare mode.

Make use of Dark themes

Not long ago, Google started promoting the use of dark mode on Android devices after realizing that it not only saves battery power, but also protect the eyes from damage as a result of staring too long on a bright screen. You can adjust your phone theme through the settings > display > theme.

If your device didn't come with a dark theme feature, you can download an application launcher like Nova launcher and go to the settings to adjust your phone to Dark Mode.

Various apps such as YouTube also come with a dark mode feature. Mostly you will find it within the app settings.

So us just two easy methods you can follow to protect your eyes from harm
By trying them you may be saving your eyes  a trip to the doctor. If you know any other methods, feel free to share it here.