**10. Recommendations**

Now days, smartphones become a part and parcel of everyone lives, irrespective of health or disabilities. As of today, smartphones are asset of the general population who are sighted. However, with the help of accessible apps and built-in feature developed in the past few years, people with visual impairment and blindness can access smartphones and use for varied purposes. Now, it is time to scale up its use among visual impairment and blindness. Therefore, there is a strong need for sensitization, promotion of smartphones as assistive technology in health or eye care facilities across the globe, even in educational institutions. Integration of smartphones services as assistive technology for visual impairment, in all eye care practices, but not limited to vision rehabilitation, would be helpful in improving the accessibility of it. Considering the demand as well as requirement for smartphones among people with visual impairment, a strong and effective advocacy is the need of the hour, especially in low middle income countries.
