Visual assistance

Adjust colours if you are colour blind

Colour correction is an experimental feature and might not work correctly everywhere on your phone.

Turn the feature on

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Tap Colour correction and turn Use colour correction on .

  3. Choose an option.

    How you see coloursOption to choose
    It's difficult to tell violet from blue. Yellow and green appear redder.Deuteranomaly (red-green)
    Colours aren't bright. Red, orange and yellow appear greener.Red-green (Red weak, protanomaly)Protanomaly (red-green)
    It's difficult to tell yellow and red from pink. Blue appears greener.Tritanomaly (blue-yellow)

If colours don't appear as you expect, troubleshoot the issue.

Add a shortcut

To use an accessibility shortcut for quickly turning Colour correction on/off:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Colour correction.
  2. Turn Colour correction shortcut on .

  3. Tap Colour correction shortcut and choose one or more shortcuts:

    • For a shortcut on your Home screen, select Tap accessibility button.
    • To press and hold both volume buttons simultaneously, select Hold volume keys.

Use colour inversion

Colour inversion flips all colours on your screen, turning light screens dark and dark screens light. This affects everything on screen, including media and images. While it can make reading text easier (light text on a dark background), it can also make it harder to understand images and videos.

If you're using Dark theme to reduce eye strain when reading, you might encounter specific apps that don’t support it and still have a light background. Turn Colour inversion on to use those apps with a dark background. You can use quick settings or a shortcut to easily turn Colour inversion on and off.

Turn the feature on

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Tap Colour inversion.

  3. Turn Use colour inversion on .

    is added to your quick settings so you can easily turn it off/on.

Add a shortcut

To use an accessibility shortcut as an alternative to the quick setting:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Colour inversion.
  2. Turn Colour inversion shortcut on .

  3. Tap Colour inversion shortcut and choose one or more shortcuts:

    • For a shortcut on your Home screen, select Tap accessibility button.
    • To press and hold both volume buttons simultaneously, select Hold volume keys.

Use it

Open quick settings and tap to turn it on/off.

Or, if you set up accessibility shortcuts, tap or press and hold both volume buttons.

Magnify the screen

You can magnify the screen by triple-tapping it or by swiping up from the bottom of the screen with two fingers. If you're using 3-button navigation, you can add to magnify.

Turn the feature on

To set up the way to start (zoom in) and stop (zoom out) magnification:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnification.

  2. Turn Magnification shortcut on .

    The shortcut is added to your screen.

When magnification is on, you'll see an orange border around the screen.

Add a shortcut

To use gestures in addition to the shortcut:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnification.

  2. Tap Magnification shortcut and:

    • To press and hold both volume buttons simultaneously, select Hold volume keys.

    • To quickly tap the screen three times, select Triple-tap screen.

      Turning this on might make your phone feel slower. After you turn on magnification, single taps take slightly longer. This short delay lets your phone find out if your tap is part of a triple tap.

Use magnification

  1. Start magnification: swipe up from the bottom of the screen with two fingers, or tap .

  2. Tap the area of the screen to magnify, then:

    • Drag two or more fingers to scroll.
    • Pinch two or more fingers to adjust zoom.

To zoom temporarily:

  1. Start magnification: swipe up from the bottom of the screen with two fingers, or tap .

  2. Touch and hold anywhere on the screen, then:

    • Drag to move around the screen.
    • Lift your finger to zoom out.

You can't zoom in on the keyboard or the buttons.

Fix an issue

If you open or close an app when zoomed in, your phone automatically zooms out. To zoom in again, use .

Use TalkBack to read screens

Hear descriptions of everything you touch.

Set it up

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Tap TalkBack and turn Use TalkBack on .

  3. Tap Settings and set the options you want.

Add a shortcut

To add an accessibility shortcut for quickly turning TalkBack on/off:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack.
  2. Turn TalkBack shortcut on .

  3. Tap TalkBack shortcut and choose one or more shortcuts:

    • For a shortcut on your Home screen, select Tap accessibility button.
    • To press and hold both volume buttons simultaneously, select Hold volume keys.

When TalkBack is on

To hear descriptions:

  • Tap an item. Your phone speaks the name.
  • Start typing. Your phone speaks each number or letter.
  • Drag status bar down. Your phone speaks all of the notifications.
  • Open a message, file or book. Your phone reads the text out loud.

To change readout volume:

  • Press a Volume button to open volume settings, then use the slider to adjust the level.
  • Or, during voice readout, repeatedly press one of the Volume buttons.

Stop readout

If you added the shortcut, tap or press and hold both volume buttons.

Or, turn TalkBack off:

  1. go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Tap TalkBack and turn Use TalkBack off .