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Text size and spacing
One control scales the type and the spacing throughout the app.
Why you'd care
This is the setting most worth adjusting and the one people are most reluctant to touch. You read your own lists every day, and a scale that suits you compounds.
It matters in both directions: larger for comfort, smaller to fit more of a long list on screen.
The 60-second version
Open Settings Appearance & accessibility Text size and spacing and adjust. It applies immediately everywhere.
Going further
It scales spacing too, not only type. That is why it stays balanced rather than becoming cramped large text, and it is why it is one control rather than two.
Compact mode is related. Reducing spacing without shrinking type gets more onto a screen while keeping it readable.
It follows your account, not the device. Change it once and every phone and tablet you sign in on picks it up. Web and the desktop apps share their own separate scale, so you can set a bigger size on a large monitor without changing your phone.
Full width is separate. On a wide screen, whether content stretches or stays in a column is Settings Appearance & accessibility Full width. A readable column usually beats full width on a large display.
Settings that change this
- Settings Appearance & accessibility Text size and spacing scales type and spacing.
- Settings Appearance & accessibility Full width stretches content on wide screens.
- Settings Appearance & accessibility Show info buttons shows or hides the small (i) buttons that explain features as you come across them. Turn them off once you know your way around.
Tips
- Try one step larger for a week. Most people are running smaller than is comfortable because they set it once on a smaller phone.
- If lists feel long, try smaller type before archiving things. It is often a density problem rather than a volume one.