Change text & display settings

Important:

• Some of these steps work only on Android 13 and up. Learn how to check your Android version.
• Supervised users can use some Personal Safety app features. Learn which features are available.

You can also find accessibility settings in quick settings, where you can quickly change your preferred text and content settings.

Tip: These settings can also be set up from the start in the setup wizard.

Change display size & text

Important: The font size setting doesn't apply to some apps.

To make your font size smaller or larger:

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Search and select Font size.
3. To change your preferred font size, move the slider left or right.

To make your display size smaller or larger:

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Search and select Display size.
3. To change your preferred display size, move the slider left or right.

Tip: You will find a preview of the change of your font and display sizes after you've set each slider to your preferred size and if you don't like it, to reset your settings, tap Reset settings. Your display size and text preferences will reset to the original setting of your device.

Use Quick Settings to adjust font

Important: If you adjust the font size from "Settings," the Font Size tile will be automatically added in Quick Setting. If you haven’t done it yet, you must first add Font Size to Quick Settings. Learn more about Quick Settings.

1. From the top of the screen, swipe down to find Quick Settings.
2. Tap Font Size.
3. Choose your preferred font size:
   • To increase the font size: Tap Increase .
   • To decrease the font size: Tap Decrease .
   • To adjust the font size: Drag the percentage slider left or right.

Tip: You can adjust font size up to 200%.

Use bold fonts

Important: Some apps won't use this setting.

You can use bold font to improve visibility.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Display size and text.
3. Turn Bold text on or off.

Use outline text

Important: To use outline text, your device must run Android 16 and up. To make text easier to read on devices that run Android 15 and below, use high-contrast text.

To turn outline text on or off:

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Display size and text.
3. Turn Outline text on or off.

Use color correction

Color correction modifies screen colors to help distinguish between different hues across your device, including apps, photos, and media. This feature is designed for people with color vision deficiencies and is not intended for general-purpose display enhancement.

Turn on color correction

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Color & motion Color correction.
3. Turn on Use color correction.
4. Under “Correction types,” choose an option that best matches your needs:
   • Red-green (Deuteranomaly): Separate overlapping greens, reds, and browns.
   • Red-green (Protanomaly): Brighten dim reds and separate them from greens.
   • Blue-yellow (Tritanomaly): Separate overlapping blues, greens, and yellows.
   • Grayscale: Remove all color.

Adjust color correction intensity

After you select your color correction type, you can use the “Intensity” slider to fine-tune the strength of your color adjustment. If you chose “Grayscale,” you won’t be able to adjust the color correction intensity.

1. Start at a lower intensity. As you move the slider, you can preview sample images at the top of the screen.
2. Adjust the slider until the sample images look clear to you.
   • Lower intensity keeps colors looking more natural. Higher intensity provides more color separation.

Tip: You can create a shortcut to quickly toggle color correction on or off. Learn about accessibility shortcuts.

Use color inversion

Important: Color inversion reverses the color on the screen, and applies to everything including media.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Color and motion Color inversion.
3. Turn Use color inversion on.

Tip: You can make a shortcut for color inversion. Learn about accessibility shortcuts.

Use dark theme & color inversion together

• Android 10 and up: If you open an app that doesn't support a dark theme, turn on color inversion.
• Android 9 and lower: You can use only one of these settings at a time. If you turn on dark theme, color inversion automatically turns off.

Change motion settings

Remove animations

You can turn off animations to help you focus.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Color and motion.
3. Turn Remove animations on.

Cursor & touchpad accessibility

You can make the mouse cursor bigger so it's more noticeable.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility Cursor & touchpad accessibility.
3. To change your preferred cursor size, move the slider left or right.

Dim your screen

Important:

• For Pixel 10 and later, the Extra dim feature is part of the brightness slider in the Quick Settings menu.
• For Pixel 9 and earlier, to turn Extra dim on or off, refer to the steps below.

You can dim your screen beyond your phone's minimum brightness so it's more comfortable to read.

1. On your device, open the Settings app.
2. Tap Accessibility.
3. Turn Extra dim on.

Get more help

For more Accessibility help, contact the Disability Support team.