How to customise the accessibility settings on your smartphone

Galaxy smartphones have a range of accessibility features to help make things easier for users with limited sight, hearing difficulties, or who struggle with interaction and dexterity.

You can make your phone read messages out loud or light up when it detects certain sounds, among other options.

To open accessibility settings

TalkBack is a voice assistant that gives spoken feedback when you select items on your phone or go through tutorials.

You can also adjust more settings, such as:

• Text to speech
• Vibration feedback
• Verbosity
• Braille keyboard and braille display

In visibility enhancements, you can choose to can make fonts stand out, activate negative colours, remove animations, and more.

Visibility enhancements include:

• High contrast mode
• Large display
• High contrast fonts
• High contrast keyboard
• Highlight buttons
• Colour inversion
• Add colour filter

Here you can set various options, including live captions and sound detectors to receive alerts when your phone hears the doorbell or a baby crying.

Hearing enhancements include:

• Live transcribe
• Live Caption
• Sound detectors
• Hearing aid support
• Amplify ambient sound
• Adapt sound
• Mute all sounds
• Mono audio
• Left/right sound balance

You can enhance or replace touch interactions and other controls here. Some features include Universal switch to control your phone with custom switches, and an assistant menu to turn on features to help users with reduces dexterity.

Interaction and dexterity settings include:

• Universal switch
• Assistant menu
• Voice access
• Options for how to answer and end calls
• Interaction control
• Touch and hold delay
• Tap duration
• Ignore repeated touches
• Sticky keys
• Slow keys
• Bounce keys

Manage direct access controls, such as using power and volume keys to open accessibility settings.

This includes:

• Add accessibility button
• Choose controls for power and volume up keys
• Choose controls for power and down up keys
• Flash notifications
• Time to take action
• Speak keyboard input aloud
• Bixby vision for accessibility

Here you can find the accessibility apps and services that you have downloaded and installed from the Galaxy Store or the Play Store.

For further support, please visit Samsung Support.