Day 146

11 Oct 2022

If the user has Bold Text enabled, it will just work if you are using fonts based on text styles. If you have your own styles, or you are using a non-system font, you'll need to provide the bolder version of the font when the setting is on.

Some code shows how a single line is all you need for it to work with both Dynamic Type and Bold Text if you use preferred fonts for one of the pre-defined text styles. If you try to load a custom font, like Comic Sans, you then need to check if isBoldTextEnabled is true, and in that case, you need to load the bold version of the font. You can then retrieve the scaled font from UIFontMetrics, to have a similar behaviour to the system font, with the custom font.

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Your iconography should support Bold Text too. One way of doing it is by creating custom symbols (and specifying weights for it) to work with them as you would with regular SF Symbols. How Creating custom symbols: https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2021/10250/

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UINotificationFeedbackGenerator has a “success” feedback type. Consider using it when a task was performed successfully together with any other visuals or sound. The use of multiple modes just makes it easier for everyone to understand your app.

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