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Adjustable font text size
Vector should obey the system text size setting: Gary has his system text size turned up but it's still tiny in vector which makes it hard to read.
See Text Programming Guide for iOS (https://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/StringsTextFonts/Conceptual/TextAndWebiPhoneOS/CustomTextProcessing/CustomTextProcessing.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP40009542-CH4-SW65)
@giomfo: please can we try to get this into the upcoming release? it's starting to become quite a contentious point....
I have iPhone 7 and yes, it’s hard to read the text for my tired eyes. Improving Riot iOS by adding adjustable text could be a nice move ;-)
This really needs to come in, number one complaint I have from people I try to introduce to Riot. It's way too small by default with no way of adjusting it.
My husband has achromatopsia and my best friend also has an eye condition, they need to change the font size in order to see anything in the app. Not being able to do so is an accessibility nightmare.
tiny font size hurts my eyes. decided to quickly search issues and found this.... nearly 3 years ago requested?!
Yes please - this is a REALLY good product, and i appreciate all the work that has gone into it! Adding in the larger font option would allow for better/more adoption! :-)
For iOS users who need this feature (for accessibility reasons, etc.), I recommend trying FluffyChat.
Today the systems settings regarding text size are mostly ignored - system text size does appear to be honoured in the contacts list (where it causes problems like https://github.com/vector-im/element-ios/issues/3386).
The key issue is Accessibility settings:
Settings -> Accessibility -> Display & Font Size -> Larger Text -> Larger Accessibility Sizes
Please, please, please.
Seconding and following up on this... Looks like it's been an issue for quite some time. This continues to be the biggest complaint I get regarding usability of the application.
I am amazed that this issue has been open for years with no fix in sight. PLEASE add a font size setting to the app -- it is a serious usability & accessibility issue.
What @catwithbanana said. People with bad eyesight (me) wold appreciate that.
I would agree. It seems like this would be a huge win and is a big ticket item
What would it take to resolve this? I can’t believe this has been an issue since 2018 and still has yet to be addressed.
Really sorry to be rude and correct you this way. but this bug has been around since 2016
People keep asking me about this, it would be great if it happened one day. :/
Hey developers, is there a voting method we can use to convey the importance of this feature or rather requirement? Half your population have trouble reading the messages in ios.
Given that it's been at least 6 years and the font size is still exactly the same, it's obvious that element-ios' developers think that whatever the font size is now is reasonably good. Even if Dynamic font sizes are difficult to implement (which they're not very, since I've done some initial work on it 5 years ago in #1562), they could have at least raised the default font size for everyone to a sane (larger) value.
There are other clients (e.g. Fluffychat) that use a larger font size by default and that support increasing the font size even further. Your interests are better served elsewhere anyway.
we were also in the need for font increase capability but since it has no progress we moved to fluffy chat that supports this option. if element wants to be the official matrix client it has to go BIG improvements.
Adding a reply to this issue with the current state of our support for Dynamic Type on iOS. Whilst we would very much like to support this in our existing app, the core screens (room lists and timeline) are very old now and require significant modernisation. We have chosen instead to focus our efforts on re-writing these as part of ElementX (our next gen iOS client that uses the Rust SDK).
Whilst it will be some time before we have anything to release that is even Alpha, I would like to emphasise that Dynamic Type was one of the first things we considered in the prototyping stage and already have support for it in the both the room list and timeline: https://github.com/vector-im/element-x-ios/issues/44#issuecomment-1123917566
Sorry I don't have anything more immediate to share, but felt it was worth adding some perspective to this issue.
What a shameless excuse. This issue has been open since Aug 4 2016. Adding dynamic font was never on the menu. You could've added it 6 years ago. And you just realized? Took 6 years to write a reply? Shame on you
Feedback from a user received over email:
Can blind and visually impaired people use Matrix, and how do they do it?
I have tried to use Element on iOS. It’s impossible; the font size is microscopic.
I have searched the FAQ but no mention or helpful advice for folks in my situation.
Hope we’ve not been forgotten.
