In reply to an e-mail sent from UK developer Mark Ford to Jobs’ personal e-mail address this morning, the Apple CEO confirmed that the company’s upcoming mobile operating system iPhone OS 4.0 would give users the ability to change the size of system fonts.
Originally reported by @GuardianTech, Ford reportedly tried to get in touch with someone on Twitter who had a beta version of the software, to try and confirm if the feature had yet been included. When that failed, he took to his keyboard and decided to ask the man himself.
The e-mail read:
Hi Steve,
my wife has very bad eye sight (she is registered blind). She’s not completely in the dark but she struggles with small text.
She can with most of the text on an iPhone, but not the text in the SMS text bubble. As far as I know there’s no way to change the font size of the SMS message, although you can change it for email.
I know she could use voiceover, but she thinks it would be embarrassing to have her messages read to her, she tried the zoom function but couldn’t get on with it on the phone (it works fine on the iMac).
This is the one thing stopping he buying an iPhone,is it likely that future versions of the iPhone OS will allow the text size for SMS to be increased?
All the best,
Mark Ford
To which Jobs replied:
Yes, that exact feature is coming in iPhone OS 4 software this summer!
Sent from my iPad
From the screenshots above, its clear these features will just apply to applications such as Apple’s native Messages app, Contacts, Mail and Notes.
With WWDC just 6 days away, Apple is expected to announce the next generation iPhone alongside detailing more information on the upcoming iPhone OS 4.0.
[via @GuardianTech]
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