This white-eye is endemic to the Togian Islands off Sulawesi. The 2008 species-description paper records it below 100 m in mangroves, secondary vegetation and mixed gardens.
It lacks a white eye-ring. The description reports a black cap and face, olive upperparts, yellow throat, pale belly and bill base, and reddish iris.
It uses lowland mangroves, secondary vegetation and mixed gardens. Observations described pairs or groups of three while foraging and roost groups of up to five.
An extinction-risk assessment has not been added yet.