Make an iPhone easier for a senior

One slider changes text size across the system and every app that uses Dynamic Type, and Accessibility offers larger sizes still.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Larger Text

Holding the side button with a volume button, or pressing the side button repeatedly, calls emergency services and can notify your emergency contacts with your location.

Settings > Emergency SOS

Zoom magnifies the display, either the whole screen or a movable window, and can apply a filter such as low light or greyscale at the same time.

Settings > Accessibility > Zoom

Medical ID holds conditions, allergies, medications, blood type and emergency contacts, and can be read from the Lock Screen without unlocking the phone.

Health > Profile picture > Medical ID

Apple reorganises Settings regularly, so an instruction written for an older release can point at a menu that no longer exists.

Settings

Display Zoom scales the entire interface, so you can choose between larger controls or more content on the screen.

Settings > Display & Brightness > Display Zoom

Magnifier turns the camera into a magnifying glass with zoom, brightness, contrast and colour filters, plus detection modes on capable models.

Settings > Accessibility > Magnifier

Colours are adjusted so foreground and background separate more strongly, which makes text and controls easier to pick out.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Increase Contrast

On an iPhone with a Home button you press it to go home, press twice for the app switcher, and there are no edge swipe gestures.

Settings > Accessibility > Home Button

Menus, Control Centre and other frosted panels become solid, which raises contrast and makes text easier to read.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Reduce Transparency

Speak Selection reads highlighted text aloud, and Speak Screen reads an entire page after a two finger swipe down from the top.

Settings > Accessibility > Spoken Content

Assistive Access replaces the entire interface with large buttons, high contrast and a small set of apps, designed for people with cognitive disabilities.

Settings > Accessibility > Assistive Access

You can set how long a touch must last before it counts, ignore repeated touches, and choose whether the first or last place you touch is used.

Settings > Accessibility > Touch > Touch Accommodations

Text that acts as a button gets an underline or a shape, so you can tell what is tappable.

Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size > Button Shapes

You can set larger text, bolder text, reduced motion, button shapes and more for one app without changing the rest of the system.

Settings > Accessibility > Per-App Settings

3D Touch sensed how hard you pressed the screen and was fitted only to the iPhone 6s through the iPhone XS generation, before being replaced by Haptic Touch.

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