iPhone Tips & Lessons
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Classes on the iPhone5 Lessons
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New in iOS 186 Lessons
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How to Edit the Control Center on Your iPhone with iOS 18
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Customize your Home & Lock Screen with iOS 18
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iOS 18 Calendar & Reminders: What’s New and How to Use Them
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Navigate the New iOS 18 Photos App Like a Pro: Step-by-Step Guide
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How to Use iOS 18's New Background Sounds
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New iPhone Passwords App with iOS 18
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How to Edit the Control Center on Your iPhone with iOS 18
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 179 Lessons
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Unlock the Power of Shared Passwords on iOS 17 and your iPhone!
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New Notes App Features on the iPhone with iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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Interactive Widgets & Standby with iOS 17
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Easily Switch search engines in Safari on the iPhone - New in iOS 17!
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Simplify the iPhone and it’s apps with Assistive Access
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Simplify PDF Form Completion on the iPhone with Autofill - New in iOS 17
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New Messages App Features in iOS 17 - My 4 Favorites!
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Edit and customize your Contact Poster and Photo on iOS 17
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New Reminders App Features in iOS 17 - My Favorites!
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New Features Introduced with iOS 16 Lessons23 Lessons
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's new in Contacts on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Reminders with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Track your Medications in the Health App with iOS 16
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View and Copy Wi-Fi Passwords and Delete Known Networks on your iPhone
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Show the Battery Percentage on an iPhone with iOS 16
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Translate Text with the Camera on the iPhone
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New Filters and a Streamlined Setup for Focus on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Lift the Subject from the Background in a Photo on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in Notes with iOS 16 on the iPhone
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Add Haptic Tap Feedback to the iPhone Keyboard
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Edit, Undo Sends, and Dictate in Messages with iOS 16
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Change Notification Styles on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Apple Introduces Smarter Dictation on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Emergency Reset and Manage Sharing & Access with Safety Check on the iPhone
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Prevent the Sleep/Wake button from Ending Calls on the iPhone
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Unsend, Schedule, and Set Reminders in Mail on the iPhone
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Pin, share, and create start pages for tab groups, and share settings with Safari
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Multi-stop Routing and Scheduled Times in the Maps app with iOS 16
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Detect Duplicates, Copy Edits, and Lock Folders in Photos on the iPhone with iOS 16
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What's New in the Weather App on the iPhone
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My Favorite New Features in iOS 16 on the iPhone
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How to Create and Manage a Shared Library in Photos
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Learn about the Reimagined Lock Screen on the iPhone with iOS 16
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Getting Started on the iPhone18 Lessons
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Home Button Features
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iPhone Side Switch and Volume Controls
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Sleep/Wake On/Off Button Features
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Navigating the Home Screen
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Searching your iPhone
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Today View
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Notifications and the Notification Center
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How to find a lost app on your iPhone
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Accessing and Customizing the Control Center
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Taking Screenshots
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Emergency SOS and Medical ID
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Saving Usernames and Passwords
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Navigate between Home Screens
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Accessing and Searching the iPhone's Settings
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Backing Up your iPhone to iCloud
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Arranging Apps and Creating Folders for Apps
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Switching and Quitting Open Apps
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iPhone Text Replacement: The Ultimate Time-Saver
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Home Button Features
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iPhone with Face ID Lessons10 Lessons
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iPhone Basics43 Lessons
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Access App Features from the iPhone Home Screen
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Move the Cursor on the iPhone
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Transfer from an iCloud backup without having to purchase more space
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Using the Keyboard
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View and Manage Storage
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Using Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Sharing Files including using AirDrop
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Battery Management Options
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Viewing Screen Time and Adding Restrictions
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Scrolling with the New Scrollbar
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Optimized Battery Charging
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Gestures for Cursor, Cut, Copy, and Paste
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Privacy Options
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Dark Mode
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Tips for why you may be receiving Intermittent Phone Calls
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Wallet and Apple Pay
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Siri's New Compact Design
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Drawing with Shape Detection
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New Date and Time Picker
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Navigate App History Stack
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Quickly Switch Networks from the Control Center
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Enable Caps Lock
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Access AirDrop Settings through the Control Center
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Create Alarms from the iPhone's Homescreen
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Access App Store Updates from your Homescreen
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Name That Tune on the iPhone
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Wireless Charging Is Wildly Inefficient
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Mute Notifications for an Hour or for the Day
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Schedule Notifications to be delivered in a Notification Summary
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Keep those Lenses Clean
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iPhone’s Emergency SOS Auto Call Feature
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Correct How Siri Pronounces Names
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Master Your Sleep Routine with iPhone: A Guide to Setting Up Sleep Schedules
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iPhone File Management: Removing a Download vs Deleting - What's the Difference?
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Save Documents Anywhere with Print Dialog on the iPhone
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Save a Document as a PDF from Your iPhone with Ease
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Combine and Compress Files on the iPhone
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Too Many iPhone Notifications? Reduce Distractions with Focus Profiles!
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Trackpad on the iPhone? Find out how in under 2 minutes!
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Enable Display Zoom for larger Icons & Bigger Text on your iPhone
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Unlocking Your iPhone's Potential: 11 Tips and Tricks Revealed!
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Change the Brightness on the Flashlight
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Home Screen Basics on the iPhone10 Lessons
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Add Widgets to your Home Screen
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Hide Home Screens
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Edit Widgets
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Creating and Editing Widget Stacks
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Using Smart Rotate with Widget Stacks
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Creating and Editing Smart Stacks
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Looking for More Widgets? Be Sure to Launch Seldom-Used Apps
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Add and Organize Websites Like Native Apps on iPhone
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iPhone Standby Mode
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Accessing and Editing the Today View
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Working with Apps on the iPhone26 Lessons
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Deleting Apps
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App Store: Updates and Interactions
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Find My App: Find my Friends and Find my iPhone
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Using Apple Pay and Apple Cash
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Long-Pressing on App icons
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Delete and re-add Apple Apps
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Offloading Apps
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Moving Multiple Apps
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App Library
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Set where to download your Apps
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App Clips
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Tips to Quickly Open the Camera
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View Expired Passes in the Wallet App
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Find App Updates and Delete Apps through the App Store
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Lock PDF's by adding a Password
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Set Where New Apps download to on the iPhone
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Prevent In-App Rating & Review Notifications
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Manage App Subscriptions from the iPhone
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Discover New Features in your Apps on the iPhone
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Search for text within web pages in Safari on the iPhone
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Find your Lost iPhone Apps!
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3 Tips on How to Block Annoying Texts on iPhone
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Are Your iPhone’s Photos a mess? Organize them with CleanMyPhone!
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Discover How to Free Up Your iPhone Storage Space
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Deleting Apps
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iPhone Settings24 Lessons
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Reset Options for the iPhone
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Low Data Mode
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The App Privacy Report on the iPhone: Discover what Data is being accessed by your apps
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Passwords App for the iPhone? Yes! Learn how in 5 mins!
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Automatically Set Do Not Disturb based on your Location
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Automatic iOS Software Updates
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Accessibility Options on the iPhone11 Lessons
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Sound Recognition
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Using the iPhone as a Magnifier
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Zoom Control in Accessibility
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See what has changed in apps that have been automatically updated
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Play Background Sounds
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Add Button Shapes to Buttons
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View all the Display & Text Size Options available
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Change Display & Text Size with Per-App Settings
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Use your iPhone to control your iPad effortlessly from anywhere in the Room
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iPhone Background Sounds (iOS17)
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Back Tap Accessibility
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Lessons for Older Versions of iOS3 Lessons
Change Display & Text Size with Per-App Settings
Learn how to customize text and display options for specific apps on the iPhone
Learn how to customize text and display options for specific apps on the iPhone by using Per-App Settings. Introduced in iOS 15, with Per-App Settings you can make the text bold, change the text size, and more for specific apps on the iPhone. Learn how in this video for the iPhone.
Video TranscriptIn this video, we’re going to look at how we can change our display and text size on a per app basis. Basically, what we’re able to do is customize our display and text size settings for individual apps. This was introduced with iOS 15. Let’s go to my iPhone.Let’s open up my Settings app when we go over to our Accessibility options, you’re going to see an option for Display and Text Size.
Now, this has been around for a while. I’m going to tap on this and what we’re able to do with this option here is make our text bold. We can change the size of our text. We can increase our contrast. This is our display and text size accessibility option. Now, any changes that I make here are going to be applied across all of my apps. So if I were to turn bold text on, all of the texts on all of my apps would be bold.
What I would like to do is just make the text bold in the Messages app. Maybe I want to make my text smaller in the App Store. How do we do that? Well, all we need to do is just go back over to our Accessibility options. And then at the very bottom, you’re going to see Per App Settings. Again, this was introduced in iOS 15. So if you’re using an older version of iOS, you will not see this option. When I tap on it, what I’m able to do is add an app. Once I add the app, I’m able to set the different options for that app.
So let’s go with my Messages app. I tap on add app. I swipe up until I find Messages. And now what I do as I tap on Messages, you’re going to see I have a lot of the same options that I had available to me under display and text size. But this time, any changes that I do make are only going to be applied for the Messages app. So what I would like to do is make this text bold. All I do is just go over to Default here, and then I turn this on. Let’s go and make the text a little bit larger as well. So I tap on Larger Text and then I just take the slider here and now the text is going to be larger only in my Messages app.
Let’s go back over to Messages here and let’s add another app. We’re going to go back. Let’s go and add my App Store. So I tap on Add App. We’re going to go with the App Store here, and now let’s go and make some changes with the app. This time, what we’re going to do is make our text smaller. So I tap on Larger Text and all I do is just take the little slider and slide it over to the left. Let’s go and add button shapes. I go back over to my app store and then I go over to Button Shapes and we turn this on again. This is only going to be applied to the App Store.
So now I made the text bold in Messages and a little bit larger. And on the App Store, I made the text smaller and I added button shapes.
So now let’s take a look at those two apps. I swipe up from the bottom let’s first look at my Messages app. You’re going to see that the text is really large and it is bold. Also we do not have button shapes on here. I’m going to tap on this conversation. You’re going to see that I do not have button shapes. Button shapes add an underline to anything that is a button.
But now let’s go over to my App Store. I swipe up from the bottom, and then we go over to my App Store. The text is going to be smaller. We can see that the text is smaller. It is not bold. And now anything that is a button, let’s go ahead and tap on HBO here. When I swipe up to the very bottom, you’re going to see, I have a button here and it is underlined. This is only going to be applied to the App Store.
Now, how do we remove these settings? Well we have to go back over to our Accessibility options. So I swipe up from the bottom here, and then we go over to our Settings. From here we go over to our Accessibility option, and then we swipe up to the very bottom. You’re going to see Per App Settings. Now, if I want to make any changes, all I have to do is just tap on the app that I want to make changes to.
But let’s say I just wanted to remove all of the settings. I just want to move everything back to default. I do not like all of that text to be so large. I don’t want it to be bold while to remove any changes. All you have to do is just swipe over to the left and you’re going to see Delete. I tap it and removes any changes that I’ve made, any customizations that I’ve made. So now everything is going to be back to default with a Messages app. But with my App Store, I’m still going to have the text small, and I’m going to have button shapes. I want to remove any customizations I made to that. Again, I just swipe over to the left, but this time I’m just going to swipe all the way over to the left and it removes it. We do not actually have to tap on the Delete button. We just swipe all the way over to the. So now both of those apps are going to be back to normal. They will not have any customizations for displaying text size.
So that’s how we can change our customize our displaying text size on the iPhone. This was introduced with iOS 15. All we need to do is just go to our Settings app. We go to Accessibility and then we go to Per App Settings. We add the app that we want to customize. Once we add that app, tap on that, and then you’re going to be able to customize all of the text and display options for that particular app, for that specific app. If you want to remove your customizations, you just swipe over to the left on the app that you want to remove.
So that’s how we customize our display and text size on a per app basis on the iPhone.