About visual discomfort with Apple Vision Pro

Apple Vision Pro is designed for a comfortable viewing experience. However, some individuals may experience symptoms of visual discomfort. Find out how to spot these symptoms and how to avoid them when you use your device.

What is visual discomfort?

If you have any of these symptoms, you may be experiencing visual discomfort:

• Blurry vision

• Double vision

• Dry or watery eyes

• Light sensitivity

• Eye strain (which can include but isn’t limited to tired eyes, heavy eyelids, stinging, burning and itchiness of the eyes)

If you experience visual discomfort, stop using Apple Vision Pro and make sure your symptoms have subsided before continuing use.

How to minimise visual discomfort

Make sure your device fits properly, any vision correction needs have been addressed and you take breaks while using your device to help ensure a comfortable experience.

Make sure you have a good fit

For an ideal fit, you’ll want to feel even pressure balanced across your cheeks and your forehead. While some small amount of light leakage is normal around your nose, you shouldn’t see noticeable light leakage coming from the sides of your Light Seal. If your eyelashes brush against your Vision Pro, you feel pressure on your nose or you receive a notification stating that your eyes are too close to the displays, try the thicker Light Seal Cushion that came with your Vision Pro. If you receive a notification stating that your eyes are too far from the displays, use the thinner Light Seal Cushion that came with your Vision Pro. If changing the Light Seal Cushion does not address this, you may need a different Light Seal size.

Find out how to get the best fit wearing Apple Vision Pro

Find out what to do if your eyes are too close or too far from the display

Start with short increments of time

The first time you use Apple Vision Pro, ease into it with short increments of time. Visual discomfort may not be immediate and it could take several minutes for symptoms to develop.

Get ZEISS Optical Inserts if you need vision correction

If you need vision correction, regardless of whether you use it regularly in your daily life, using ZEISS Optical Inserts may improve your visual comfort.

Find out more about using Apple Vision Pro with vision prescriptions and vision conditions

Take regular breaks

When you first start using Apple Vision Pro, take a break at least every 20 to 30 minutes. If you experience visual discomfort, stop using the device until fully recovered from your symptoms.

Some experiences are more visually demanding than others, and the onset of visual discomfort may vary from person to person. Visual discomfort may build gradually or begin immediately after you’ve started using Apple Vision Pro, so it’s important to take regular breaks, even if you don’t think you need to.

Customise content on Apple Vision Pro

To make viewing content more optimal for you on Apple Vision Pro, you can adjust:

• Text size

• Position and depth of windows

• Display brightness

• Certain accessibility settings.

It can help to position content towards the centre of your field of view at about eye level. When you read in Apple Vision Pro, the most comfortable distance is typically farther than arm’s length.

Find out more about accessibility on Apple Vision Pro

Keep your head upright

Keep your head upright, rather than tilted to one side, and maintain proper sitting posture while watching 3D films, immersive media or spatial video.

Adjust the alignment of your displays if needed

When you first put on and set up Apple Vision Pro, you may be asked to press and hold the Digital Crown so that the displays align with your eyes. This will adjust Apple Vision Pro to your inter-pupillary distance (IPD) – the distance between your eye pupils. Apple Vision Pro is designed to accommodate a range of IPDs. A small number of people may experience visual discomfort when using Apple Vision Pro because their IPD falls outside this range.

Find out more about how to align your Apple Vision Pro displays