Visual assistance

Adjust colors if you’re color blind

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Touch Color correction and turn it on .
  3. Touch Correction mode and choose an option.

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

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

Use magnification gestures

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Turn Magnification gesture on .
  3. On any screen:

    • Triple-tap the screen to zoom in/out.
    • While zoomed in, drag two fingers across the screen to see more.
    • Pinch fingers together or apart to adjust the zoom.

Use TalkBack to read screens

Hear descriptions of everything you touch.

Enable TalkBack
  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Touch TalkBack and turn it on .
  3. Touch Settings and set the options you want.

When TalkBack is on
  • Touch 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.
TipTo learn about navigating with Explore by touch, go to Settings > Accessibility > TalkBack > Settings > Help & Feedback.
Stop readout

To pause or resume readout, press & hold both the Volume Up and Down buttons at the same time for three seconds, until you hear confirmation that TalkBack is on or off. You can change the accessibility feature associated with this shortcut.

Or, turn TalkBack off:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Touch TalkBack and turn it off .

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