If youwant your iPhone to read out notifications, go to Accessibility>VoiceOver,
turnonVoiceOver and then enable the ‘Always Speak Notifications’ option.6
Magnify on your iPhone
Go to Accessibility>Magnifier and turn on
the option. You can now triple-click on your
Home button to launch your iPhone camera
and use it to magnify text and objects.7
Enable dark mode
In Accessibility>Display Accommodations
tap on ‘Invert Colours’. You can now enable
Smart Invert or Classic Invert to make the
display easier on the eye in low light conditions.8
Lessen iPhone use
In Accessibility>Display Accommodations
enable ‘Colour Filters’ and tap on ‘Greyscale’
to make everything less appealing if you want
to find it easier to leave your iPhone alone.- Smart Typing
If you keep the ‘Smart
Typing’ option turned on then
whenever you need to type
text, the onscreen keyboard
will appear the normal size
while in zoom mode, making
it easier to type. - Zoom region
You can opt between a full-
screen zoom or a window
zoom and you also have full
freedom, by tapping on the
controller to resize the lens
and determine how much of
the screen is zoomed in. - Zoom filter
The zoom filter determines
how the zoomed portion of
the screen is presented. You
can have this set to Inverted,
Greyscale, Greyscale
Inverted, Low Light or select
‘None’ to have no filter.
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Read small text easier
Unless you are reading a book, email or web page then you
can’t pinch and expand your fingers to zoom in on small text
on your iPhone screen – but thankfully the Zoom options found
in your Accessibility Settings help you get around this.- Show Controller
Enable the ‘Show Controller’
option for a handy
thumbstick to control the
zoomed area. You can tap on
this once to bring up a menu
of zoom options, double-tap
to zoom in and out or 3D
Touch to peek-zoom.