Make the writing bigger on your phone
Make every word on your phone a comfortable size, and put it back in ten seconds if you go too far.
A great many people put up with text that is too small for years, because nobody told them it could be changed. It can, and it takes about twenty seconds.
The setting changes the writing in every app at once — messages, email, the settings themselves. It costs nothing, uses nothing up, and can be slid back at any time.
Key points
- Change the text size for the whole phone under Display (Display & Brightness on an iPhone)
- Turn on bold text, which often helps more than size alone
- Go further when the ordinary slider is not enough: the longer slider in Accessibility on an iPhone, Screen zoom under Display on a Samsung
- Slide any of it back in seconds if you overshoot
What to remember
- Text Size lives under Display on every phone made, and the slider works both ways. On a Samsung the two rows read Display, then Font size and style — different words, the same two steps.
- If one app stubbornly stays small, look inside that app for its own text setting.
- On an iPhone, Accessibility holds a second, longer text slider that most people never find: Display & Text Size, then Larger Text. On a Samsung Galaxy, the way past the largest font is Screen zoom, under Display, which makes everything bigger; Accessibility, then Vision enhancements, holds more settings for seeing the screen.
Try this
Set the text size on your own phone one notch bigger than you think you need, and live with it for a day. Almost nobody puts it back down.
Practice: Make the writing bigger on your phone. Your first lesson is free, with no account or card; the rest are part of a Lantern plan. Interactive lessons require JavaScript.