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While it may seem that the colored part of your eye is shrinking, the answer to 'does the iris get smaller with age?' is a surprising 'no.' A significant portion of adults over 60 experience age-related miosis, where a different, more central part of the eye actually becomes smaller and less responsive.
By age 60, the human eye requires three times more light to see than it did at age 20. This startling fact helps answer the question, "Why is it harder to see in the dark when you get older?", highlighting the natural, unavoidable changes our eyes undergo with age.
While eye color typically stabilizes after infancy, approximately 10-15% of Caucasians experience some subtle lightening of their iris with age due to pigment changes. The idea that your **pupil color changes with age** is a widespread myth rooted in how we perceive the eye, rather than what's physically happening inside it.
