Eye Pain, Dry eye, Headaches, and Discomfort with MacBook Pro M3 16-inch

You need to see a medical professional.

"Severe eye strain, fastly dry eye, headaches, and nausea" are symptoms that may be caused by many things. We can not diagnose nor treat medical conditions.

MaxRamx wrote:

thats what i really did, i visited 2 doctors and they controlled my vision under more than 4 devices and they both said i dont have problem with my vision or my eyes!

what i did i switched back to my Mac air m1! and now i'm very good! what do you think?

What do I think? I think you have a medical condition. Millions of users do not experience the symptoms you describe. I think we users can not diagnose your condition or its cause.

It is winter here. The humidity in the house will drop to 30+ % unless I continuously run a humidifier to keep the humidity at 45 - 50%. Without the humidifier, I will need optometrist-recommended, over-the-counter eye drops or eyestrain will occur from dry eye.

I wear prescription eyeglasses specifically made for computer screen distances for improved resolution (and less eyestrain) as I spend long hours in front of a 32-in 4K Ultrafine display. Seldom do I get eyestrain headaches, but when I do, or even if I do not, and without eyewear, I periodically stare out the window or watch TV to switch my focal distance. I prefer lower-light settings so no window glare or nearby lights are present to reflect from the screen, though I happen to have a non-glare screen on the LG display.

I use macOS dark appearance mode, and a Safari extension (Noir) to force a black background on web pages including these community pages. That reduces eyestrain considerably.

Many years ago, when I was writing code with a 19-inch Sun monochrome monitor on my Desktop, I had glaring overhead lighting and a window cube, where despite the Levolor blinds being closed, caused a striped effect across the screen. I managed by wearing Polarized Revo sunglasses. This was as a younger man with no corrective eyeglasses needed.

Same here. Nothing I did helped. I got down a huge rabbit hole of PWM and "Dithering". For me, I could never look at Samsung screen phones, the MacBook Air 16" is just like that, but worse.

I went "down" to a 15" M3 MacBook Air and absolutely no issues. Give that a try. It's nice to have something more portable too, but there absolutely is something wrong with those screens for our eye type.

Apple Community Specialists ask us to remind you to always contact Apple support when these sorts of problems occur. They are EAGER to help you with such issues.

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Hi,

Try to wear blue light cut sunglass.