Introduction: Assessment of visual performance are more crucial among all age group especially in young adults. It is common that maximum students have digital gadget like mobile, phone, tab, laptop etc. For many reasons they have to use all these gadgets after the emergence of COVID pandemic. Dependency in digital gadgets has importantly increased due to shifting of Education mode from offline to online, in this study we tried to find out the outcomes of digital screen usage identify the occurrence of dryness and itsawareness in young adults of age group 18-30 years if ITM University, Gwalior. Purpose: To study occurrence of dryness and its awareness after prolonged usageof digital gadgets. Methods: A cross sectional study in which we enrolled 60 young adults and their data were collected via questionnaire from the selected subjects. Ocular examination and Schirmer test-1 was performed. Results: A total of 60 young adults aged 18 to 30 years old participated in this study, with 60% (35) being male and 40% (25) being female. Most of the participants were using mobile phone among the entire digital gadget. The majority of participants 43.3 %( 26) spending 4-6hoursand 41.7% (25) spending2-4hours, while the least amount of time spent was 6-9hours. The most experienced symptoms were burning sensation experienced by 56.7%, irritation 55%, dryness 20%, headache 18.3%, eyepain 16.7%, redness 15% and 11.7% were suffering from all the mentioned symptoms. precautions for dryness and related symptoms are unknown to 95 % (57 out of 60) of students, while only 5% (3out of60)were aware. Conclusion: Excessive use of a digital screen causes dryness-related symptoms in the eyes of students, particularly those who are unaware of how to control dryness-related symptoms we can control dryness and related symptoms with a few simple preventive measures, finally, we must enlighten them about dry eyes and how toprevent the musing various methods.