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Android Central
Technology
Sanuj Bhatia

My parents struggled to use their Pixel phones, so I made them easier to use by turning on this setting

Simple View layout on the Google Pixel 10.

Pixel phones are filled with a ton of AI features that make them a better experience for me than other Android phones. However, one of the most basic challenges my parents kept running into had nothing to do with AI. They struggled with simply using the phone itself. Getting back to the home screen, switching between apps, or even figuring out where they were felt unnecessarily difficult.

I've always felt that Pixel phones use slightly smaller fonts than other Android smartphones, and while that is fine for me, it's a completely different story for ageing eyes. For my parents, the text just felt too small to comfortably read most of the time. I needed to find a way to make their phones work for them.

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