There seems to be a large amount of people who bought the Apple iPhone or iPad who have problems with the unit magnifying the screen 2X and making the graphics huge to a point where the screen is too big to be usable.
Apparently this is a feature with the iOS operating system. What has most likely happened is you may have accidentally enabled the zoom feature by double tapping it with 3 fingers.
- To fix this issue, simply double-tap on the screen with 3 fingers, and the screen will usually go back to normal and eliminate the magnification.
- If the double-tap doesn’t work for you, try double tapping again, only on the second tap, keep your fingers on the screen, then drag them up and down to zoom in and out respectively.
- If you want to disable this feature and prevent this problem from happening again, you can go to “Settings” > “General” > “Accessibility” and turn off “Zoom“.
Diana says
Thanks a million. Didn’t work, didn’t work, and then…it worked!
RC says
Help, I’ve tried the 3 fingers on the iphone 8plus and still can’t get it the huge font gone! I can’t shut off because the screen is too big, won’t let me side it over to shut off… What now?
susan says
Thank you so much !! What a wonderful service you provide …
Mike E. says
Certain websites kept being too wide for my iPad Pro screen when using the Safari browser. I finally figured out the solution in my case: Go to Settings->Safari->scroll down to “Settings for Websites” section->click on “Request Desktop Website”->Turn it “Off” for all websites. My frustration level has now dropped significantly :)
Art says
Thank you! Phone call in middle of night and I accidentally did this. So happy I found this article!
Jeroen says
3 fingers it is ! Thank you. Solved my problem immediately.!
Brenda Leiboldt says
Pressing the up volume button then the down volume button then powering off worked for me.
Priya says
Worked immediately! Very grateful
Jill M says
If tapping doesn’t work, press the up then the down volume buttons on the side and then hold the power button until it goes off.
Gary Robinson says
ZOOM
3 Finger tap not working and I can’t shrink my screen enough to get even my pass code entered! ARGGGG!!!
Someone please help!
Melissa says
Thank you so much! This worked like a charm!!
Julia says
This was a new phone. Thanks it worked. I ‘ve turned zoom off!
GraMargot says
Daddy Mitch with beautiful baby, thank you to the moon and back! My zoom overloaded about 3 months ago. My daughter found the riddles answer. But this time I braved the zoom and searched online. And found your well stated solution. Familiar. God bless you
MdelR says
Thank you. It worked. Last night while I was cleaning the screen, I must have inadvertently tapped on it. At first it didn’t look like the tapping had worked, I may have also dragged the screen some, but when I pressed the home button and went back to the apps, I was happy to find it was back to normal size and usable again. Thanks again for a very useful post.
Scott says
Thanks so much – was ready to chuck the phone in the bin!
Great!
Jules Mckinnon says
It did not work, I can’t type password or email in App Store.
Jalen says
My zoom is off but my phone is still magnified
Deanna Thomson says
I have a problem why does my iPad screen apps looks so big
Narish Shikarpoori says
Thank you S
IT WAS PERFECT AS SOON AS I CLICKED THREE FINGERS ALL WAS NORMAL AGAIN AND KNOW FIRST THING I DID WAS TO DISCONNTECT FROM ZOOM
FIVE STARS FOR YOU “””””
Anniegardengirl says
Thank you so very much. This has happened a couple of times and I fixed it but didn’t know how. This worked perfectly and now I know the rule!
Allen says
Worked like charm!
Thank you.
David Marrie says
no. my phone was off when the zooming took place. the numbers on screen are too large for me to enter password or to shut off phone. tried the three finger double tap repeatedly to no avail.
Gillian Lofts says
3 fingers just won’t work and it is driving me crazy. PLEASE help. Zoom is turned off and screen still huge.
Grizelda says
I turned Zoomoff, then on, then off again, turned off my iPad, had a cup of coffee, turned it back on again. I then found a Zoom ‘square’ appeared on my screen but a double tap removed it and now messenger is working so that I can read whole message and reply! All very strange.
Annette says
The text on my email is strung out and the pictures too huge to view. Three finger taps aren’t working to fix the problem. I tried turning the iPad off and on again, tried closing Mail and reopening, etc.
This is the only email this has happened to. I really need to read the text that accompanies each photo!
Mark says
3-finger trick worked, thank you!!!
Eileen Luce says
I tried the three finger method and still cannot get graphics reduced.
Gina says
3 Finger tap not working and I can’t shrink my screen enough to get even my pass code entered! ARGGGG!!!
Someone please help!
Linda Gonse says
Yes, this is an intermittent problem for me. Zoom is not turned on, but sometimes a double-tap on a page causes it to zoom in. Any other taps zoom in even larger. Three finger taps don’t work. Sometimes closing the application by removing it from the screen and reopening it will turn return it to normal. This time, is it not. I will try rebooting. This is an unexplainable and irritating problem.
Ric says
No, just the same
Even turned off & on
Ann says
Was happening only on one of my page and had no idea why, tried this and it’s worked. Thanks
Ivan says
The 3-finger double tap magnification is too large. It is impossibly hard work working the scan window around to view the rest of the text of image. Is there any way to vary the magnification?
Ken Johnston says
A hard reboot also works. Never could get any other options to bring size back to normal.
Bev says
Took me about 10 times but it finally worked. Stupid thing to happen. Apple needs to address this issueBev
Barry says
I have my iPad stuck in zoom mode although zoom in settings is in the off mode
I tried tapping 3 fingers on screen with no success
HELP!!!
Greg says
Glad it worked for those other folks. I’m in with crowd that still has 1/4″ high letters after trying both options. Any more suggestions?
Hope says
Thanks so much. It worked like magic. :)
Ro says
Genius! Thank you so very much! Tech problems SUCK!
Dan Paxton says
Thanks Mitch!
Frank says
Thank you thank you!!!
Oz says
Zoom option is off and still too big! Cannot find any help to make this smaller. It is a shame!
Phil says
Thank you for the great tip. Worked perfect for me and my old fat fingers. Greatly appreciate it!
Kermit says
Thanks for the help. really appreciate it. Thanks for keeping this post active, since Apple has not bothered to fix/adjust it.
Thought I would have to go to the apple store in Berlin and am supposed to leave Berlin tomorrow.
Saved me all that and the friendly smirk. :)
Nancy Mills says
Thanks. Zoom thing happened on my IPad. But double tap with 3 fingers worked like a charm.
Teresa says
I tried everything above and the only game that is still too big is Clash of Kings. Nothing I do will reduce the graphics.
Evelyn says
Thank you so much. We had no idea how to handle this. What a relief!
ken says
3 fingers haleluyah, thank you ever so much
Bonzzz says
Wow – that’s amazing – I did not know that I tapped the screen with three fingers – Bless you for helping me get my screen back to the size I can read !!!
CharBeeXOX says
please help my iPad is on zoom mode and won’t un zoom i tried everything but it won’t work plz help…
sal says
Thank you this is useful information .. however this happened to me when my Zoom feature was already off. I had no idea how it happened and how it was suddenly fixed.
Jean says
Thank you for posting this. It worked!
Jean
Iona says
Thank you so much, this has been a big problem for me and only fixed it by a fluke in the past. Now I know what to do.