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Reticare Blue Light Filter for iPad Mini Review
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May 30, 2025
It's not news by this point that the blue frequency light emitted by your screens is messing up your sleep cycle. Turns out it's also linked to macular degeneration too. There are software solutions coming in iOS 9.3, but a smarter solution is the blue-light screen filter and protector for your tablet from Reticare. iPad, iPad mini, and lots more. Dave Taylor of http://www.AskDaveTaylor.com/ installs and checks out the Reticare blue light filter and screen protector for the iPad Mini, finding it easy to install and barely noticeable once on.
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hi Dave Taylor here and I want to talk
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about something that's messing up your
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eyes and you probably don't even realize
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it it's called blue light now hold on
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hold on I'm not gonna try to sell you
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some weird pair of glasses that are
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gonna magically improve your vision I'm
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just gonna talk about the fact that
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different wavelengths of light actually
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work differently with our brain and how
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we process things for example more of a
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blue color light is more daylight and
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that in causes us to create something
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called cortisone and that helps us wake
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up and get lively meanwhile at nighttime
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as things get into sunset and darker
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colors and there's less blue then what
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happens is we end up creating something
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called melatonin and that actually helps
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us go to sleep it helps us relax and
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what happens is that you like me
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probably spend a lot of time looking at
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computers or screens at night and this
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ends up being a real problem because
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your sleep cycle gets damaged and it
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gets even worse with children because
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children spend a lot of time looking at
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screens and they're more sensitive to
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light and here's where it gets even
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worse is that there's all sorts of data
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that shows that macular degeneration one
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of the most common causes of blindness
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is now exacerbated by these blue
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frequencies so enter a company called
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Redick hair r e TI c ar e so I want to
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show you what they have let me get my
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little iPad active so here's my iPad and
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I'm looking at as I do often late at
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night I'm in the Kindle app and I'm
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reading an e-book the problem is is that
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it's very blue now in the app I can
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actually change the settings but what I
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really like is that Retta care has this
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filter right it's actually a screen
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protector but it also filters out the
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blue light so I hope you can see there
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it's sort of a more yellow and this is
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actually a bit exaggerated because I
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have two screen protectors at the same
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time because that's just how they ship
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it but what it does is it gives you a
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screen protector that all
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so filters out those harmful wavelengths
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and that's really a cool idea so let me
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cut to showing you my attempt at putting
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this thing on my iPad Mini and then
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we'll come back and talk again all right
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we're gonna go for it so this is kind of
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tricky but they have a neat little
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design here where comes with these
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little trays you put them together and
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there's another piece you can put in but
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I'm gonna choose not to the idea is that
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they just want to keep your device nice
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and steady so you got that and now next
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step is we're just gonna make sure it's
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clean always a good idea before you put
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a screen protector on it and comes with
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a cleaning pad and you can do that too
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let's go ahead and use the cleaning pad
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and these are usually just alcohol so
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not too much exciting going on in here
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and give it one last pass for good luck
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and when I look at the screen it looks
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looks good
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I've had this iPad Mini a long time so
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it's in remarkably good shape so do that
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make sure it's all perfect and now the
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tricky part so if you look there's a two
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and there's a one and what we need to do
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is we want the one up and you can see
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there's a slot so we want to have that
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over the button so we want to and this
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always makes me a little anxious we want
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to peel the adhesive off course there's
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two so maybe the first thing we should
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do is put one aside and now we're just
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working with one so we want to peel off
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the adhesive layer and then so now's the
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trickiest part because we want to align
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this without touching that surface so
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there's two holes we need to line up and
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that looks just about perfect
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now comes with this nifty little
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squeegee rubber thing so we can use that
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to get bubbles out and see how that
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works pretty easy all right got a big
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huge bubble right around there but I'm
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kind of jumping ahead of myself because
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they've got one other thing we need to
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do which is peel off the second part so
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we'll do that and now we have our screen
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protector on and you can see got a nice
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picture there and if we go to here so
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you don't see really any difference you
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can't you know you can see it's not like
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suddenly the screens way dimmer or a
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really weird color and in terms of the
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bubbles and such all we have to do is
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just it's kind of fun you just spend a
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minute or two massaging the bubbles out
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of the plastic and then the way these
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modern technologies work is it takes a
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little while for it to fully set and
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it's sort of it hears itself to the
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surface so we'll work on that one right
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around the camera but otherwise you can
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see that's it done so that wasn't too
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bad it was basically like putting on a
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screen protector on a cell phone only
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maybe a little larger the important
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thing is now I can actually read my
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ebooks and I can lay in bed and not
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worry so much about that blue light now
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those of you that are really tracking
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have probably are thinking that isn't
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there something called night shift
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that's coming in iOS 9.3 that's supposed
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to solve this and you're right Apple
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actually recognizes this blue light as a
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problem and they're implementing
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something that's already in the Kindle
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not Kindle software but the Kindle
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Hardware that actually changes your
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light color scheme basically on your
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screen for late at night so that it gets
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more reddish and you end up with less of
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that blue light so yeah it's coming in
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iOS but I'm worried more about my kids
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picking up my devices and spending hours
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on them
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nice shift is going to end up being
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probably from like you know you set a
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start time and at that point until dawn
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then it's automatically going to be
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shifting and getting a little less blue
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on your screen but I'm worried about the
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rest of the time - if it's not such a
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big deal then there's no reason not to
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do this and Retta care
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it's 39.99 you can pick them up from ret
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it care calm and it's a screen protector
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- so honestly I don't see much of a
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reason not to put one of these on your
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iPad or iPad Mini or other tablet device
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and help your eyes and help your kids
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and have a better world and mostly be
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able to sleep at night which would be a
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really nice thing don't you think anyway
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this is Dave Taylor hope you found this
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interesting and seen my next video
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