The fastest way for testing Dynamic Type while developing, and to quickly see how your app's UI flows, is by using the "option + cmd + plus/minus" to increase/decrease the text size in your simulator.
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Bump text size fast in Simulator
3 Nov 2022
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If you are displaying something in two or more columns, you may want to change that to as little as one column when using some of the largest Dynamic Type settings to keep the text readable.
Dynamic Type is a feature that lets a user change the font size (smaller or larger) of the whole system or a particular app. To support it, choose a preferred font based on one of the 11 supported text styles: Large title, heading, body...
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.
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