How to Activate Galaxy S20 Blue Light Filter
Wondering how to shield your eyes from the harmful radiation caused by prolonged use of smartphones? If you’ve got a Galaxy S20 and wanted to know how to make it have an eye-friendly display, then this post is for you. Here’s a quick guide on how to activate the Galaxy S20 Blue Light Filter to lessen or block any detrimental screen radiation.
Too much screen exposure is bad. This is a common warning uttered by health experts, especially to parents who are limitlessly allowing their children to use mobile devices like smartphones and tablets. However, it also turned out to be one of the most neglected warnings, as many people don’t mind spending more time using smartphones regardless of their location.
Seeing the adverse effects anyone can obtain from too much screen exposure, smartphone manufacturers made sure to embed a pertinent feature that would inhibit the amount of screen radiation. And the recently rolled out galaxy s20 smartphone also has this feature.
Read on to learn how to access and activate the Blue light filter on your new Samsung smartphone.
Easy steps to activate the Galaxy S20 Blue light filter
Time Needed : 5 minutes
Carrying out the following steps will activate a display feature that inhibits any potential radio frequency radiation from your new Samsung smartphone. Feel free to use this walk-through when needed.<br>
Launch the Settings app from the Home screen.
If the Settings app isn’t shown on the main screen, then you will need to pull up the Apps viewer and find it among other lined up icons or app shortcuts.
From the Settings main screen, scroll down and tap Display.
Relevant options such as screen brightness, Home screen and Blue light filter controls will be displayed next.
Tap Blue light filter to continue.
On the next screen, you will see an adjustable bar to reduce or increase opacity. Beneath the bar are two options on how you’d like to activate the Blue light filter on your device.
To enable the feature instantly, tap to turn on the switch next to Turn on now.
Doing so will activate the Blue light filter immediately.The Opacity bar will also be enabled upon turning on the switch. Just drag the slider left or right to adjust the screen opacity as you’d desire.
To enable the feature at a later schedule, toggle the switch next to Turn on as scheduled instead.
If prompted, tap the option to Allow Blue light filter to access your phone’s current location. Just select from the given options. Otherwise, tap Deny.Turning the Blue light filter on as scheduled will prompt you with two options to choose and these are Sunset to sunrise and Custom schedule.
To continue with this guide, let’s go for the first option, which is Sunset to sunrise. Hence, tap to mark the radio button before Sunset to sunrise.
If you prefer to use the Custom schedule, just tap the radio button to select it and then adjust the Start time and End time you’d like the Blue light filter to be enabled on your device then tap Done to apply the recent changes.
Tools
- Android 10, One UI 2.0 and later
Materials
- Galaxy S20, Galaxy S20 Plus, Galaxy S20 Ultra
Blue light filter is just one of the many essential features embedded into the new Samsung Galaxy flagship smartphone. Activating this display feature is highly recommended if you are sharing your phone with your kids. It’s one way to reduce, if not, totally inhibit harmful light emission (radiation) from the phone.
While smartphone manufacturers are required to abide by the FCC guidelines in regard to radio frequency radiation absorption by the body, some smartphones including iPhones and selected Galaxy models may still have exceeded the radio frequency radiation safety limits. This is an alarming notion because radio frequency radiation from these devices may have adverse effects on human health, especially with 5G rolling out globally.
Thankfully, new Samsung devices including the latest galaxy s20 lineups already have built-in display features users can use to safeguard themselves from such harmful radio frequency radiation. Thus, be sure to make full use of this display feature on your new smartphone.
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