Visual assistance

Adjust colors if you’re color blind

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

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion.
  2. Tap Color correction and turn Use color correction on toggle on switch.

  3. To replace all screen colors with gray tones, choose Grayscale. Or, correct colors based on your vision:

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

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

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

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion > Color correction.
  2. Turn Color correction shortcut on toggle on switch.

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

    • For a shortcut on your home screen, select Accessibility button.
    • To press & hold both Volume buttons simultaneously, select Volume keys.

Use color inversion

Color inversion flips all colors 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 Color inversion on to use those apps with a dark background. You can use quick settings or a shortcut to easily turn Color inversion on and off.

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion.
  2. Tap Color inversion.

  3. Turn Use color inversion on toggle on switch.

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

To use an accessibility shortcut as an alternate to the Color inversion quick setting:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Color and motion > Color inversion.
  2. Turn Color inversion shortcut on toggle on switch.

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

    • For a shortcut on your home screen, select Accessibility button.
    • To press & hold both Volume buttons simultaneously, select Volume keys.

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

Or, if you set up accessibility shortcuts, tap or press & hold both Volume buttons.

Make screen extra dim

If the brightness slider in quick settings doesn't go low enough, you can set the screen to extra dim.

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Extra dim.

  2. Turn Make screen extra dim on toggle on switch.

    The first time you do this, Extra dim is added to quick settings.

  3. Use the Intensity slider to dim the screen.
  4. Optional: After you restart the phone, Extra dim will be turned off. To prevent this, turn on Keep on after device restarts toggle on switch.

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

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Extra dim.

  2. Tap Extra dim shortcut and select the shortcuts to use:

    • For a shortcut on your home screen, select Accessibility button.
    • To press & hold both Volume buttons simultaneously, select Volume keys.

Open quick settings and tap to turn it on/off. Touch & hold to adjust intensity and other settings.

Or, if you set up accessibility shortcuts, tap or press & hold both Volume buttons.

Bold all text

To change all text on the screen to bold for easier reading:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Display size and text.
  2. Turn Bold text on toggle on switch.

Magnify the screen

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 toggle on switch.

    The Magnification icon shortcut is added to your screen.

  3. You can magnify the entire screen or you can use a magnifier that you can move around to zoom in on parts of the screen.

    To switch between methods, leave Magnification type set as Switch between full and partial screen.

    If you want to always magnify the entire screen, tap Magnification type and choose Magnify full screen.

    If you only want the magnifier box, tap Magnification type and choose Magnify part of screen.

To use gestures in addition to the Magnification icon shortcut:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnification.

  2. Tap Magnification shortcut and:

    • To press & hold both Volume buttons simultaneously, select 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.

  1. To start magnification, tap Magnification icon.

    You'll see an orange border around the screen.

  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.

  3. To change how magnification works, tap the screen to see settings icon, then:

    • To magnify part of the screen, tap to choose between a small , medium , or large box.

      Then use move frame icon to move the magnification area around the screen.

    • To magnify the whole screen, tap .

      If you don't see , change your settings to use Switch between full and partial screen for your Magnification type.

  4. To turn magnification off, tap Magnification icon.

    The orange border disappears.

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

If you open or close an app when zoomed in, your phone automatically zooms out. To zoom in again, use Magnification icon. Or, go to Settings > Accessibility > Magnification and turn Keep on while switching apps off toggle off switch.

Use TalkBack to read screens

Hear descriptions of everything you touch.

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

  3. Tap Settings and set the options you want.

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

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

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

    • For a shortcut on your home screen, select Accessibility button.
    • To press & hold both Volume buttons simultaneously, select Volume keys.

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 a Volume button.

If you added the shortcut, tap or press & hold both Volume buttons.

Or, turn TalkBack off:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Tap TalkBack and turn Use TalkBack off toggle off switch.

Hear audio description of movies and shows

For movies and shows that support it, you can hear a description of what’s happening on screen.

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility.
  2. Turn Audio description on toggle on switch or off toggle off switch.

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