Pecking accurately at checkboxes while trying to keep your balance on a commuter train is not fun. Slide toggles are much easier to hit accurately. They also ar

Pecking accurately at checkboxes while trying to keep your balance on a commuter train is not fun. Slide toggles are much easier to hit accurately. They also are visually easier to understand as an on-off switch. Often people tend to go for design anti-patterns with checkboxes like [X] Mute notifications [X] Large fonts Whereas with slide toggles the on-off semantics are much more obvious and design patterns tend to get forced to a better, simplified pattern: [o--] Notifications [--o] Large fonts (where the toggle is clearly lit up for the "on" state of course)