46 Best iPhone hacks

The Accessibility section in your iPhone’s Settings app is a veritable treasure trove of cool features and functions for your device, but unless you had a specific need to browse and enable certain settings – such as a visual, hearing or physical impairment – then you may not have realised what is there. You’ll find numerous ways to make your iPhone easier to use, customise the appearance and access key features and functions much quicker.

In this feature, we dissect the very best tricks and features from within the Accessibility settings and show you how they can be used to make your iPhone more efficient and better suited to your needs, as well as adding cool new cosmetic features to make your device stand out from the crowd.

To access these features and more, go to Settings>Accessibility. We are using iOS 14 here, so some ways to access these options may differ from earlier versions.

Read small text easier

Unless you are reading a book, email or webpage then you can’t pinch and expand your fingers to zoom in on small text on your iPhone screen – but thankfully, the Zoom options found in your Accessibility Settings help you get around this.

01 Zoom Filter

The Zoom Filter determines how the zoomed portion of the screen is presented. You can have this set to Inverted, Greyscale, Greyscale Inverted, Low Light or select ‘None’ to have no filter.

02 Zoom region

In Zoom>Zoom Region, you can opt between ‘Full Screen Zoom’ or ‘Window Zoom’ and you also have full freedom, by tapping on the controller to resize