50 Best iPhone Accessibility Tricks
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Get a solid Dock
If you want to make your iPhone Dock
appear bolder and more solid (as well as
improving the contrast and increasing the
general legibility) then go to Accessibility>
Reduce Transparency and turn the option on.
Your Dock will now appear as a solid charcoal
colourinsteadof beingsee-through.10
Within easy reach
One of the best features in the
Accessibility settings is ‘Reachability’. Make
sure this is enabled and then double-tap the
Home button lightly. The display will then shift
down the screen, placing everything that was
once at the top within easy reach and making
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On/off labels
If you want to make your iOS buttons
look, well, cooler, then there is an option that
allows you to activate On/Off Labels for your
buttons. The reason is that anyone who is
visually impaired , such as colour blind, can
see if the options are enabled or not without
having to rely on the green indicator.- Button Shapes
The Button Shapes option in
Accessibility is designed to make
it more obvious that an area of
the screen can be tapped on to
trigger an option. Flick it on and
you will see, for example, that the
‘General’ button in the top-left
becomes underlined. - Reduce Motion
If staring at your iPhone for too
long makes you feel nauseous
then try enabling the ‘Reduce
Motion’ option. This makes subtle
adjustments to the motion of the
user interface, including turning
off the parallax effect of icons. - Bold Text
Enabling this option will make the
text throughout iOS bolder and
easier to read. After turning this
option on you will need to restart
your iPhone for the changes to
take effect. - Increase Contrast
If you enable this option then
you can improve your iPhone’s
general readability by increasing
the colour contrast and making
other text styling adjustments to
enhance the legibility.
Other vision-related features
Within the ‘Vision’ section in your Accessibility settings are other options to
improve the readability on your iPhone. These options have less practical use
for those without visual impairments but are still handy to know about.