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Yeah, but the icons and labels could use more of that padding and be larger so old folks like me can see them.

There's literally a setting for this. There are separate sliders for "display size" and "font size", the latter of which just makes the font larger

haha yes, I tried to use my kids phone the other day and I had forgotten how much larger I had set the fonts on my own phone. It was impossible to read anything.

It's actually a credit to google that you can scale the fonts up so much and then forget you had done it. In the old days, the UI would be broken in various places.

It is still often broken, especially when a non-English locale is set. A family member uses larger fonts in Android, and most labels are barely readable (barel… readab…), UI widgets often don't fit on the screen etc.

The trend nowadays is to remove icons, because UX designers think it makes the control too bloated and users don't perceive icons anyways (joke).

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