Find accessibility services in Quick Settings

To easily find your favourite accessibility services when you swipe down from the top screen, add them to Quick Settings. Learn how to find accessibility features on your Pixel phone with our step-by-step tutorial.

You can add:

Colour correction: Helps your device to compensate for colour blindness.
Colour inversion: Changes the colours of your display.
Extra dim: Dims your screen so that it's more comfortable to read.
One-handed mode: Navigate your phone more easily with one hand.
Live Transcribe: Captures speech and sound so that you read them as text on your screen.
Sound Amplifier: Amplifies sound in a noisy area.
Sound Notifications: Checks for sounds in your environment, like when a smoke alarm beeps or a doorbell rings.
Live Caption: Automatically captions speech on your device from media like videos, podcasts, phone calls and audio messages.
Hearing devices: Connects or disconnects your hearing aid.

Open Quick Settings

From the top of your screen, swipe down twice.
At the bottom left, tap edit .
Touch and hold the setting.
Drag the setting to where you want it.
- To add a setting, drag it up from 'Hold and drag to add tiles'.
- To remove a setting, drag it down to 'Drag here to remove'.

Tip: Some apps may ask if you want to add their icon as a tile to your Quick Settings menu. You can remove or re-add these at any time.

Important: This feature is only available on Android 15 and up.

For quick access, you can also add an accessibility tile directly to your Quick Settings from the Settings app.

On your Android device, open Settings.
Tap Accessibility.
Select the feature that you want to add as a tile to Quick Settings.
- For example, add Live Transcribe.
Turn on Quick Settings shortcut.
- If you can't find the shortcut switch, the feature isn't convertible to a tile on Quick Settings.
To open Quick Settings, swipe down from the top of your screen.