Has anyone been trying out the beta of Monterey? I’m curious if there’s any improvement eye-strain wise.

3 months later

Now that Monterey is finally out, has anyone noticed any difference in symptoms?

6 days later

Seems the same as Big Sur to me. I find Catalina to cause less eye strain on my 2017 MBP.

8 days later

This could be the sugar pill effect, but Monterey seems a tad worse on my eyes than Big Sur, but it could be me just being paranoid.

a month later

It is clearly worse, mbp 15 2017

I was able to use Big Sur for an hour or two with mild symptoms. It’s max 15 min for Monterey.

Fonts look worse, a step towards Windows.

On a plain fill, like Notes app, screen flickering is visible to the naked eye (it’s not so obvious with a photographic image).

Given amount of bugs Monterey has, it seems that it’s just a poor engineering.

    poliakov Glad to know it's not just me. I don't care to use my 2017 map for long periods either. I feel like everything is "overexposed". I get that feeling with all of apples new lineup too.

      a month later

      You know what’s weird? I can tolerate Big Sur on a 2018 Macbook Air but not my 2017 MacBook Pro 13 non Touch Bar. The difference is the air display, despite being newer doesn’t support P3 wide color. My 2017 MBP does. It makes me wonder if the OS is using dithering to show wide color on OS Big Sur and later as long as the display supports it and thus causing eye strain. Since the Air display doesn’t support wide color, it doesn’t cause an issue.

        I haven't tried yet. Have been busy this week and can't afford a day out with a Migraine.

        I’ve seen Monterey on friend’s M1 air for few minutes. It looked calm for me. So you’re probably right, it’s always os+device combination.

        I can add more more messiness if you like:

        • external qhd monitors (both dell ultrasharps, one 10 bit one 8 bit) connected via display port (but not hdmi) saved me from eye problems with all macOS versions from Sierra to Big Sur. Monterey broke this workaround, so I had to downgrade to Catalina
        • I’ve tried changing color profiles and resolutions on my mbp pro 15’ 2017 with Monterey — no positive effect
        • I also have 2019 mbp pro 13’ at work. If set to precisely half resolution and not so wide gamma it gives me zero problems (it runs Catalina)
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