Overview
- Chrome now offers a persistent 'Show Reading Mode' entry in the three-dot menu that lets users manually invoke the simplified view on any page.
- The redesigned experience keeps the Omnibox visible and adds a bottom Reading mode sheet using Material 3 with a quick exit button.
- Users can choose Sans serif, Serif, or Mono fonts, switch among Light, Sepia, or Dark backgrounds, and scale text up to 250%, with settings saved across pages.
- The change is appearing for some devices on the stable Chrome 143 release, with broader availability yet to arrive.
- Reader-mode flags at chrome://flags/#reader-mode-improvements can enable the new design early, though the menu placement remains less immediate than Samsung Internet’s URL-bar button.