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Nice! I've wanted this for years. Most recently, this last weekend, while watching a '90s broadcast TV episode.

I'm not epileptic, but I don't like to take chances with things like that. And, maybe a few times a year, I'm concerned because I see someone doing rapid flashing lights, and it seems irresponsible.



In the last two years or so there have been a number of thing I’ve watched (sorry don’t remember specifics) where I actively looked away because the flashing was just uncomfortable to watch. I explicitly remember thinking “I guess this proves I don’t have photosensitive epilepsy.”

There’s a good chance I will turn this on just for comfort.


Great example of how investing in accessibility for specific groups has off-target benefits for lots of other people!



Yea I have the same problem with lots of flashing.. it just tires my eyes so much. I even struggle sometimes with walking past emergency vehicle flashing lights at night and need to look away because jeez my eyes.

So far so good on the epilepsy front tho. Thankfully.


The 70's movie Dark Star even comes with a warning about flashing lights at the beginning, so it would be a great test case for this feature.

And a great fun movie, so it's all gravy.


I feel the exact same way; I'm not epileptic but I avoid media that knowingly contains rapid flashing lights out of precaution, and I look away or scroll down whenever I do come across rapid flashing lights.

I'm glad that Apple has made flashing light detection and auto-dimming technologies more available. It's amazing, in a sad way, how so many people are still unaware of the dangers of certain flashing light patterns, which leads to incidents continuing to occur. I personally only know about such dangers because I'm a long-time Pokémon fan since the English dub started airing in 1998; to this day the only episode of the Indigo League era I haven't watched is the infamous Porygon episode (only aired once in Japan) that had a flashy battle scene that sent about 700 people to the hospital. Yet even with this high-profile incident, I've heard some people say the incident was an urban legend until I told them otherwise, and there have been incidents in other media. There needs to be more awareness about the dangers of flashing lights so that way media creators and broadcasters can avoid them or mitigate their risks.


If you're not epileptic, then what exactly is the precaution? That you might actually be epileptic?


I don’t think that episode was ever considered an urban legend. It’s well documented.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denn%C5%8D_Senshi_Porygon?wpro...

However the thing people do talk about is how severe it was, and a small percentage reactions may have been the result of hysteria.


> I'm not epileptic, but I don't like to take chances with things like that.

What are the chances you don't like taking, chance of what?




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