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Steps checked against official help pages. Last checked: Oct 15, 2026

How to Make Text Bigger on Your Phone

What this helps with: Making the words on your iPhone or Android phone larger and easier to read.

This takes about two minutes, and you can always change it back.

On an iPhone

  1. Find and tap the Settings app.
    • What you’ll tap: A gray icon that looks like a set of gears.
  2. Tap Display & Brightness.
    • What you’ll tap: A line with a small blue icon showing “AA”. You may need to scroll down.
  3. Tap Text Size.
  4. Drag the slider to the right to make text bigger.
    • What you’ll tap: Put your finger on the round dot at the bottom of the screen and slide it right. The sample text gets bigger as you go.
  5. Want it even bigger? Go back to Settings, tap Accessibility, then Display & Text Size, then Larger Text.
  6. Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes, then drag the slider to the size you like.
    • What you’ll tap: A switch next to the words. It turns green when it’s on.

On an Android phone

Menus can look a little different on each brand of phone (Samsung, Google Pixel, Motorola, and others). Using the search box in Settings works on most of them.

  1. Find and tap the Settings app.
    • What you’ll tap: An icon that looks like a gear.
  2. Tap the search box at the top and type Font size.
    • What you’ll tap: A magnifying glass or a bar that says “Search settings.”
  3. Tap Font size in the results.
  4. Drag the slider to the right to make text bigger.
  5. (Optional) Make everything bigger, including buttons and icons: search for Display size and move that slider to the right too.
  6. (Optional) Make letters thicker: go to Settings, then Accessibility, then Display size and text, and turn on Bold text.

If something goes wrong

  • Some apps didn’t get bigger. Not every app follows this setting. That’s normal and not something you did wrong.
  • Buttons are now hard to tap, or words get cut off. The text may be a little too big. Go back and move the slider one step to the left.
  • I can’t find the setting. On Android, try the search box again with “text size.” Older Android phones may name things a little differently.
  • I want to undo it. Follow the same steps and slide the dot back to the middle. On Android, you can also tap Reset settings.

Official sources

Last checked: Oct 15, 2026

This is general help, not personalized tech support. Screens can look slightly different depending on your phone model and software version.

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