Android 8 everything is too small

[Ermintrude50]

Even with the biggest text size everything is too small. The large display makes no difference, icons are still too small.
The messaging app no longer has a setting to increase text size.
Need help, everything is too small.

And I have now activated new nano sim.

I hate android 8!!!

 

[B. Diddy]

Welcome to Android Central! I moved this from the General News forum to the Oreo forum for more specific traffic.

Which device do you have? Have you tried the magnification options in Settings>Accessibility​?

 

[Ermintrude50]

I have a Nokia 3.1. It is called Android One, so a pristine copy of Android. First thing I did was increase the Text Size, the largest is still far for small.
I increased the Display size to max, nothing changed. Certainly the icons are still too small. My husband is disabled and finds this very difficult.

On my previous phone there was a section in Messages to increase the font size I was using about three to four words per line. But that has gone and I have installed at least 8 different message aps and they are all the same, no font size in settings. Some of them the text is grey, which is impossible.

 

[B. Diddy]

What about the Magnification option?

 

[Ermintrude50]

I have finally found two sms apps which allow large text, largest is Tetra Sms which has some nice colours as well, allows you to choose black text , so no need for grey.
Pulse is a good runner up, not quite big enough.
Also does not seem to have too many ads. These confuse my disabled husband big time. If something pops up unexpectedly he cannot cope. And they he clicks on things and downloads all sorts of rubbish. I cannot train him how to use something which will look different every time he uses it. I would have to show him what to do each time!!

 

[Ermintrude50]

Thank you for reply. Magnification difficult to use. I will never managed to teach my husband how to use it.

 

[methodman89]

Seems a tablet might be a better choice.

 

[B. Diddy]

You might want to try a 3rd party solution like BIG Launcher.

 

[Ermintrude50]

Sorry Android 8 is not good enough. There is a push to make things more user friendly for people with disabilities. And quite frankly Android 8 is considerably less user friendly than previous. There needs to be easy ways for people to be able to adjust their phones. I have a tablet but I am not going to walk round with a 10 inch phablet in my pocket when I want to make a phone call. Large text on Android 8 is not large enough, and choosing large display does nothing at all.
To all the developers, if you are lucky you will be old one day. We are want to be able to use modern technology. I am lucky and do not need glasses for driving, But then I cannot see my phone, and yes I can have specs, but I have to find them. Much easier to have things big on my phone.
Meanwhile for my husband, every small change is a big issue. I can tell that a smaller button with a phone on it is the same as a bigger button with a phone on it, but he cannot, and has to learn each and every procedure again in order to use the phone and yet having a phone is vital for him. I have already spent 1.5 days teaching him to use his new phone, and we have only covered: making calls, receiving calls and texting and taking pictures. All sorts of things ported from his old phone, but his favourites for calls and his text conversations did not appear. So they all had to be set up and started again. He keeps using his old phone for pictures even though the new phone has a better camera and is very iffy about charging, and he would use it for calls, except it has not got a sim card.
In the UK at least, disabled people have a right to be catered for,
What is the point of having a section called accessability when it worse than before.
We need bigger text and we need bigger icons.
We have not lost our marbles but various bits of us are not firing on all cylinders.

 

[Ermintrude50]

And third party solutions normally now contain advertisements. These are very confusing. Everytime you want to do something something different pops up. That is impossible for my husband. In fact as a disabled person I think he should be able to get aps free without out adverts.

 

[B. Diddy]

And third party solutions normally now contain advertisements. These are very confusing. Everytime you want to do something something different pops up. That is impossible for my husband. In fact as a disabled person I think he should be able to get aps free without out adverts.

I think BIG Launcher has a paid option, which presumably gets rid of those ads. But I understand the concerns about readability. I'm starting to hit the age where I'm holding the phone farther and farther away from my eyes.:'(