How to Read on an iPhone without Damaging your Eyesight: Tips to Keep in Mind

The new technologies are not faced with classics like reading. What’s more, electronic devices like smartphones and tablets make even accessing books much easier. In this article we will give you a series of tips to read on your iPhone without damaging your eyesight, as well as the most recommended formats for this action.

Where can you get the books from?

Apple itself has an application called Apple Books or Libros in its Spanish version. In it, as you may have already suspected, you can find a multitude of titles at your fingertips. There are many of them that are free and although you may think that for that reason they are worse, nothing is further from the truth because there are real hidden gems. Even so, you can access the complete catalog of books and once you pay for one you can have it accessible from any Apple device enabled with this application.

Read on an iPhone without Damaging your Eyesight

However, there are other applications for this and you can also buy books online in different formats. Although PDF may be one of the most widespread, the truth is that we recommend using an application in that case that allows you to change the font, the background and other settings that make reading more comfortable.

Is the iPhone the most suitable device for this?

Probably not. And not because books cannot be accessed, something that we have already told you that is fully feasible, but because of the size of their screen . Maybe even an iPhone ‘Max’ can be small, especially if you are used to reading books in their traditional format and a size larger than that of these screens. However, it also has as a positive part the fact that in the end you always carry the device with you, so you can read at any time regardless of whether you are at home, on public transport or in any waiting room.

iPhone settings for reading

Here we highlight some settings available in iOS and that if you adjust them to your liking you can get a better view that favors reading without your eyes ending up excessively tired. It will not be the same as an electronic ink device, but if you have ever read on the iPhone without modifying any parameter, you will notice an interesting difference.

Brightness of the screen

The intensity of light emitted by the iPhone screen is one of the main culprits for eyestrain. If you are going to be reading in the same room or in similar lighting conditions all the time, the advice is to manually adjust the brightness and deactivate the automatic adjustment. You can do it in Settings> Accessibility> Screen and text size. Then you can adjust the brightness from the Control Center or from Settings> Display and brightness.

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True tone

While it is related to brightness, this parameter is not exactly that. What makes having this function activated is to adapt the colors of the screen to the environmental situation in which you find yourself, in such a way that even if you lose “naturalness” you gain comfort. Activating it while reading is another of our recommendations and it is also done from Settings> Display and brightness.

True Tone iPhone

Night shift

This functionality is a bit like the previous one and it also adapts the colors of the screen to the conditions in which you find yourself. In this case, the light on the screen is much warmer and the white colors look a bit more yellowish, but you get used to it quickly and for reading it is great. What’s more, if you accept another advice, we would recommend programming it automatically so that it is also activated at night and does not bother you so much the light before sleeping. Like the previous ones, it is available from Settings> Screen and brightness, also having a modulable bar in which to adjust more or less warmth.

Night Shift iPhone

Reduce white point

This functionality considerably reduces the intensity of the strongest colors. Although having it activated continuously can make a worse experience of using the iPhone, reading can be great. To find this setting you have to go to Settings> Accessibility> Screen and text size.

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Do you want Siri to read you any text?

One more option that will definitely not harm your eyesight is that you are not the one reading. Perhaps an audiobook is more comfortable for this, but if you have not purchased it or the book you want to read does not have this version available, Siri can act as the announcer. To do this you must go to Settings> Accessibility> Read content and activate the “Read selection” function.

Siri leer texto Phone

Once you activate this you will be able to select a text and find the option “Read”. If you click on it, Siri will start reading the text. We insist that perhaps it is not the most ideal considering that in the end it is an artificial voice that loses a lot of intonation value and others, but it can be a useful solution after all. You can also customize the speed of speech from a bar that appears in the aforementioned settings section.