The Hidden iPhone Settings That Give You Power User Control Over All Your Apps - Gadget Hacks

It's not an casual task erstwhile it comes to customizing apps connected your iPhone. Sure, you tin physique automations successful Shortcuts to add color-related filters, enable Live Captions, oregon play a inheritance sound circumstantial to each app, but it tin beryllium excessively overmuch work. If you don't caput that, spell ahead, but determination are besides immoderate easier per-app settings hiding connected your iPhone that are overmuch easier to assign.

These hidden per-app settings volition fto you delegate circumstantial substance sizes, bold fonts, fastener shapes, and different invaluable features to immoderate app connected your device. That whitethorn not dependable similar much, but substance size is 1 of the astir communal adjustments iOS users marque erstwhile they spell from app to app since you tin alteration it for the existent app oregon the full strategy from the easy-access Control Center.

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But you don't request to bash that manually each time. Instead, look to your iPhone's accessibility options. These options fto you customize ocular elements for each the apps connected your iPhone, adjacent your Home Screen, which besides includes immoderate aspects of your Lock Screen and system-wide presumption bar, and Live Captions.

To get started, guarantee you're moving iOS 15 oregon later. Sadly, Apple's latest operating system, iOS 16, doesn't present immoderate caller per-app options. Maybe iOS 17 will!

Add Apps to Your Per-App Settings

Navigate to Settings –> Accessibility –> Per-App Settings. Then, pat "Add App" to unfastened the app picker. Find the app you want, past pat it, which volition instrumentality you to the Per-App Settings menu. You tin lone adhd 1 app astatine a time. So if you're going to tweak aggregate apps, you tin adhd them each present oregon 1 by 1 arsenic needed.

Pretty overmuch each app connected your iPhone tin beryllium customized. You won't find hidden apps similar Print Center, Code Scanner, Diagnostics, Field Test, oregon Apple TV Remote listed, but you volition spot Home Screen, Live Captions, Magnifier, and Siri, on with astir of Apple's regular apps and each your third-party apps.

Customize Each App's Preferences

To configure an app's settings, pat its sanction from the Per-App Settings list. For astir apps, you tin set the pursuing options adjacent if they don't bash thing successful the app. Each penchant volition person a prime betwixt Default, On, and Off, too Larger Text, which provides a "Reset Font Size to Default" fastener and a slider to summation oregon alteration the substance size.

• Bold Text: When on, it bolds astir substance disposable connected the screen.
• Larger Text: Adjusts to your preferred speechmaking size.
• Button Shapes: When on, it adds shapes astir tappable text-only elements to marque them look much similar buttons.
• On/Off Labels: When on, it adds the cosmopolitan symbols for "on" and "off" to toggle switches — a vertical enactment for connected and a ellipse for off.
• Reduce Transparency: When on, it improves opposition by reducing the transparency and blurs connected immoderate backgrounds to summation legibility.
• Increase Contrast: When on, it increases colour opposition betwixt the app's foreground and inheritance colors.
• Differentiate Without Color: When on, it replaces the idiosyncratic interface elements that trust connected colour to convey accusation with alternatives.
• Smart Invert: When on, it reverses astir colors connected your display, including successful immoderate apps that usage acheronian colour styles. It volition not impact photos, videos, and different types of ocular media, including app icons.
• Reduce Motion: When on, it lessens the idiosyncratic interface's motion, including the parallax effect seen for Home Screen icons.
• Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions: When on, it reduces the question for idiosyncratic interface controls that descent successful erstwhile appearing and disappearing. (Prefer Cross-Fade Transitions lone appears erstwhile Reduce Motion is on, either for your full strategy oregon conscionable the app you're customizing.) On the Home Screen, it applies to each apps connected your instrumentality erstwhile utilizing the App Switcher.
• Auto-Play Video Previews: When on, it automatically plays immoderate video previews shown successful the app.

Live Captions, introduced with iOS 16, lone lets you set Bold Text and Larger Text. Occasionally, you whitethorn adjacent spot immoderate apps that shouldn't adjacent beryllium there. For example, iOS 16.2 started laying the groundwork for a caller accessibility mode that wholly replaces the interface for apps similar Home Screen, Camera, Messages, Music, and Photos. None of it is live, but I could spot the ClarityUICameraSettings app, which is not adjacent functional yet, connected iOS 16.3.

See It successful Action

You tin spot the differences beneath aft enabling each mounting for the Home Screen. Obviously, you won't spot the question diagnostic changes successful a screenshot.

Interestingly, bolding the substance for the Home Screen also bolds it for the system-wide presumption bar, arsenic good arsenic for Home Screen speedy actions, Battery widget percentages, immoderate app icons similar Calendar, notifications connected the Lock Screen and Notification Center, Today View widgets, and App Library.

Whenever you unfastened different app, everything volition spell backmost to normal, and you won't spot your Home Screen changes until you spot immoderate of the elements I conscionable mentioned.

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For an app similar Safari, changing immoderate elements similar substance size and boldness volition lone impact Safari's idiosyncratic interface, not webpages. You tin pat the "AA" fastener successful the hunt barroom to find the substance size changer for webpages.

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Remove Apps from Per-App Settings

If you don't similar immoderate of the settings you chose for an app, you tin spell backmost successful and alteration them. You tin besides delete the app from the Per-App Settings to undo each your tweaks. The easiest mode is to swipe near connected the app until it disappears from the database (left screenshot below). If you don't swipe acold enough, pat its "Delete" button. Alternatively, you tin deed "Edit" astatine the top, followed by the minus awesome adjacent to the app, and past "Delete" (middle and close screenshots below).

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