{"id":1465,"date":"2022-01-31T00:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-01-31T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/?p=1465"},"modified":"2022-12-04T10:34:45","modified_gmt":"2022-12-04T15:34:45","slug":"large-font-pop-ups-for-apple-iphone-ipad-status-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/debradalgleish.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/31\/large-font-pop-ups-for-apple-iphone-ipad-status-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"Large Font Pop-ups for Apple iPhone iPad Status Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Large Text setting on your iPhone and iPad can make it easier to read things. And there’s a well-hidden benefit to the Large Text accessibility setting. You can get large font pop-ups for the status bar information, like the time and date.<\/p>\n

The steps for turning on this feature\u00a0 are in the Change Large Text Setting section<\/a> below.<\/p>\n

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Large Font Pop-up Info<\/h3>\n

Because of my poor vision, I’ve turned on many of the Accessibility features in my Apple iPad and iPhone settings.<\/p>\n

My favourite Accessibility feature is the Large Text option. Without it, reading things on those mobile devices would be difficult for me.<\/p>\n

Last week, I stumbled onto another benefit of the Large Text setting, that you can see in the screen shot below. I accidentally pressed on the Time, at the top left of the iPad screen, and a large font pop-up appeared, showing the time!<\/p>\n

When I pressed on the Date, it created a large font pop-up too. What kind of magic was this?<\/p>\n

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Large font pop-up with time on Apple iPad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

No Pop-ups on Some iPads<\/h3>\n

I’d never seen those pop-ups before, so I thought it was a new feature from Apple’s latest iOS update.<\/p>\n

But, when I showed this helpful new feature to my husband, it didn’t work on his iPad.<\/p>\n

Nothing happened when he press the date, or the time, or any other items in the Status Bar, at the top of his iPad.<\/p>\n

Accessibility Settings<\/h3>\n

My next guess was that I saw it because of an Accessibility feature, and maybe he could turn it on too.<\/p>\n

Item by item, we compared the Accessibility settings on our iPads. There is a long list of them, so it took a while to go through them!<\/p>\n

There wasn’t anything obvious in that list, where you could turn the Status Bar pop-ups on or off.<\/p>\n

Change Large Text Setting<\/h3>\n

Finally, we found the setting that controlled those pop-ups. It’s well hidden, within the Large Text option.<\/p>\n

If you want to see the status bar pop-ups on your iPad or iPhone, try these steps:<\/p>\n