Tips for Apple Vision Pro users

Personal tips I learned from using Vision Pro daily

I have owned an Apple Vision Pro for almost 4 months already. I use it almost daily, for a minimum of 2 hours each day. Most of the usage is for clearing emails, web browsing, and watching videos (YouTube, Apple TV+, Disney Plus, Tennis TV, and others). As I’m using a corporate laptop for my work, I cannot use the Vision Pro as a display device for work. However, I do have a Mac Studio at home that I use for managing and organizing my photographs, and sometimes I enjoy using Vision Pro to view the stunning bird pictures that I took in a much larger screen size.

Here are some tips I like to share that hopefully will be useful to you. Like any computing device you have at home, you need a designated place to keep your Vision Pro device. I place it on a small table:

To ensure the device has protection from falls, I put it in a case. The Vision Pro fits snugly in the case, so even if the case does fall off the table, it is unlikely to crash on the floor. This table is situated at the corner of my living room just beside my recliner armchair which provides both upright sitting and lay-back sitting. So, I will usually sit upright to read information or lay on my sofa while watching video.

In my case is also the following cleaner:

Sometimes the lens inside the Vision Pro may get dirtied or look blur from the inside. To resolve this, you would need to use a lens cleaning solution commonly available for spectacles and a soft cleaning cloth suitable for cleaning camera lens. There is no need for a special Apple cloth. But you do have to keep your cleaning cloth unexposed to avoid having particles sticking to the cloth by electrostatic forces.

Initially, I left my Vision Pro exposed in the case. However, after many incidents of eye discomfort, I realized that the lens in the Vision Pro tends to have electrostatic forces that attract floating particles in the air. This is causing my eye discomfort and after I started covering my Vision Pro while in the case, I no longer have the discomfort:

You may use any method convenient to you, just ensure there is very few openings for particles to float into the case holding your Vision Pro.

Now what about taking your Vision Pro out? What kind of case or bag do you need? Must you get a “made for Apple Vision Pro” bag? First, there aren’t many to choose from and with the limited volume of Apple Vision Pro sold, prices will be high. Since I’m a bird photographer, I have been very comfortable to use a range of bags and backpacks that are designed to carry expensive camera equipment, where you have electronics and expensive glasses to carry around anywhere (including in the rain and sand). So, I use the following camera backpack to bring my Vision Pro out:

Bags or backpacks for cameras often come with a designated compartment for the camera body and have multiple adhesive (Velcro) separators that can be used to shape the space to hold your camera snuggly with cushions all around. In this case, you can see my backpack has a side opening that I put my Vision Pro snugly into its compartment. Storing and taking out the Vision Pro is very convenient with the side compartment (that is not usually found in laptop backpacks). This backpack also has a laptop compartment. So you can bring along a MacBook to work with the Vision Pro.

Two other items are very important to bring along with your Vision Pro. They are a wireless keyboard and a power bank with sufficient capacity for the Vision Pro, plus of course your AirPods. All these items can be readily kept in the backpack.

The next tip is on how you wear your Vision Pro. There are many options of straps and I would recommend having one that hangs over the top of your head or forehead. This would help reduce the weight impact of the front part of Vision Pro on your face, especially both your cheeks. I use an AnnaPro comfort head strap (version 1) with my Vision Pro and this has made it possible for me to wear for up to two hours.

When you put on your Vision Pro, you would normally open your eyes so that you could perform the Optic ID retina recognition. I would suggest that you put on the Vision Pro with your eyes closed, and when you have fully adjusted the fit of the headset, then open your eyes for the recognition. This would reduce the need to re-adjust your looking angle within Vision Pro and likely would improve sharpness of what you see within.

Hope the tips above are helpful to you. And I would like to congratulate you for buying a Vision Pro (if you are the owner).