This Hidden Trick Lets You Bold Text in Your iPhone's Status Bar for a Heavier Look System-Wide - Gadget Hacks

There's not overmuch you tin customize connected your iPhone's presumption barroom beyond showing oregon hiding the artillery percent icon. You can't take antithetic icons oregon prime a vibrant color, but there's a concealed instrumentality that lets you bold each the text.

If you spell to Settings –> Display & Brightness, you'll spot an enactment to "Bold Text," but this is simply a system-wide setting, truthful astir of the substance you'll spot connected your iPhone would go bold erstwhile switched on. That's not perfect if you conscionable privation to bold the substance successful your presumption bar.

Instead, spell to Settings –> Accessibility –> Per-App Settings, and pat "Add App."

Search for and prime "Home Screen," past unfastened Home Screen's per-app settings.

Next, find the "Bold Text" option. Tap that, past prime "On." Unlike the Bold Text enactment mentioned above, this 1 lone applies to the Home Screen, not the full system. For immoderate reason, the presumption barroom is tied to the Home Screen settings, truthful erstwhile you bold the Home Screen, you besides bold substance successful the presumption bar.

On the Home Screen, you'll announcement a immense quality betwixt the unbold and bold substance successful the presumption bar.

Text successful the presumption barroom volition besides look bold everyplace else, specified arsenic successful different apps erstwhile it's disposable and connected the Lock Screen, Notification Center, Control Center, App Library, and Spotlight Search. The clip and wireless bearer are the main things that are bold. Status barroom icons won't look otherwise unless they person substance successful them, similar erstwhile utilizing the battery percentage successful the artillery icon.

Using bold substance for your presumption barroom besides affects different things connected your iPhone, truthful don't beryllium amazed if words and numbers aren't arsenic bladed for different UI elements.

The substance connected your Home Screen volition go bold, including each app, folder, and widget names, on with substance successful immoderate app icons (like Calendar). Text for speedy actions volition besides change. The substance wrong widgets whitethorn besides alteration depending connected the widget. For example, percentages successful the Batteries widget volition look bold, portion substance successful the Music and News widgets won't. You tin hide app and folder names to debar bold substance for those if it bugs you.

While substance successful Spotlight Search won't beryllium affected, it volition look bold for notifications connected your Lock Screen and Notification Center, for immoderate widgets successful your Today View, and successful the App Library.

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