You may have noticed that navigation/tool/tab bars don't scale with large Dynamic Type sizes. It would take too much space from the screen leaving very little real estate for the actual content. A tap and hold will show the Large Content Viewer.
Day 125
Tap and hold bar items at large text sizes
20 Sep 2022
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You should really try to support Dynamic Type. If you can’t for some reason, and you want to fall back to the Large Content Viewer, you can do so. I’d limit it to “sticky” bars. Maybe you have a custom tab bar, navigation bar, or similar? Check the UILargeContentViewerItem protocol. Most UIKit components conform to it already. You'll just need to set showsLargeContentViewer to true and add a UILargeContentViewerInteraction to your component. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/uikit/uilargecontentvieweritem
Text Size is one of my favorite Control Centre controls. It lets you quickly change the Dynamic Type size, of the whole system. But also, you can now specify a different setting per app. Also, check out Dark Mode, Magnifier, Sound Recognition...
One of my favourite Dynamic Type tricks is to use Stack Views and flip the axis from horizontal to vertical given a certain content-size-category threshold. So effortless and it works so well in so many scenarios.
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