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My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at the
by ObsoleteNerd 6y ago
My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day.
Things like:
The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in bed at night (even the lowest brightness isn’t low enough sometimes).
Reachability setting if you have a big phone and small hands let’s you drag the entire interface down with 1 finger and reach buttons at the top of the UI.
LED Flash for Alerts gives you a visual notification if you work somewhere where you need your phone on silent but also can’t use vibration alerts (she works in a medical field and her phone sits across the room on a table).
Lots of interesting ideas in an area of Settings 99% of people never touch.
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- dhosek 6y agoI've long used the Mac's ctrl-scroll shortcut for zooming in on the display. Ages ago, when I was working in the same room as the design staff for a company I worked at, they saw me do that and were quick to activate it on their iMacs as it's really handy for checking pixel-level rendering on web interfaces.
- kiddico 6y ago"Zoom" settings seems like a very odd spot to put something like a low light filter, which is why I never found it. Thanks for sharing! (and the same to your other half!)
- singularity2001 6y agoYour “low light” filter is an unneccessary hack: just use the 'reduce whitepoint' feature and add it to power-button menu for quick access. ... which doesn't help the mayor annoyance that safari still doesn't support dark mode! (FF to the rescue)
- zeckalpha 6y agoReduce white point and low light mode are different and can be combined, at least on my 2016 SE.