Show the Safari app reading mode and its new features
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Are you aware of the existence of the Safari app's reading mode and its new features?
There really are some excellent texts on the internet, worth your attention, even through a screen iPhone. But the ads that surround them, large animations or other multimedia, are capable of distracting you from the text.
Because of what some people pay in order to have their ads appear, we don't see them moving away from the small screens us. But Apple's operating system from the version iOS 7, offers us an individual feature that arranges our screen in such a way that our text is legible. This feature is called "Reading function“.
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This function converts the online appearance of a website into a Website, on a simple page of text, accompanied by a few photos or video. Up to the previous OS version the "read" function in the Safari, we can say that it didn't leave us with many configuration options.
Activating the reading function by touching the icon with the three lines top left of the address bar, you had the option to enlarge or shrink the size of the font. In case you didn't like the font or the background colour, you had to put up with it, as you didn't have the choice to make such changes.
The new functional iOS 9, brought significant adjustments to the reading function, which we consider to be particularly user-friendly. It is now safe to recommend that you upgrade to the latest version iOS 9.1 as you will find important configuration options.
But first let's see how you can enable the feature:
- Open the app "Safari." from the start screen of the iOS your device.
- Head to the website that wish (I would recommend ired.gr/blog as I have heard that it has a lot of guides for the operating system iOS of Apple and not only).
- Select The Article from you wish to read.
- An small virtual key with three parallel lines will appear left from the address bar, which must also be Click.
This action, as mentioned before, will turn the website into plain text, keeping photos and video that may accompany it. There is a big difference in appearance and it is effective if a user wishes to read a large text. We should note that the browser-application Chrome, does not have the reading feature.
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So if you want to take advantage of the feature, you can only do so through the browser Safari. You are now able to work in the functional iOS 9, in addition to changing the font size, you can also change the font itself. Total 8 fonts is at your disposal Athelas, Charter, Georgia, Iowan, Palatino, San Francisco, Seravek, and Times New Roman. (An avid Georgia user).
You can even choose the background of the text between four shades: white, off-white, grey and black. If you want my opinion here too, my favorite shade is the off-white background and I'm excited that it's available, as I can relax and read at night before bed.
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You should be aware that the read mode button is available in most of the Websites of the internet, but not all of them. It is possible that this button may not appear in optimized mobile websites, but no harm done.
We have tried to bring you our knowledge on the reading function of the application Safari and the new configuration possibilities brought by the functional iOS 9. If for any reason any of the above was not understood, please let us know in the comments.
from DINFUN
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