Magnify the Apple iPhone or iPad screen with the Zoom feature. It’s a great Accessibility feature for the vision impaired, or if you’re simply displaying something that is difficult to see at normal magnification
To enable or disable zoom, follow these steps:
- Open “Settings” from the Home screen.
- Choose “General“.
- Select “Accessibility“.
- Select “Zoom” and switch it to “On” or “Off“.
You can also enable and change other settings as desired.
- Follow Focus
- Zoom Keyboard
- Show Controller
- Zoom Region
- Maximum Zoom Level
FAQ
How do you use the Zoom feature once this is enabled?
Double-tap on the screen with three fingers to enter zoom mode. You can double tap with three fingers while keeping your fingers on the screen after the second tap to control zooming by moving your fingers up and down the screen.
Double-tap with three fingers again to exit zoom mode.
My device is stuck zoomed in. What do I do?
We actually wrote a post about that. Try double-tapping with three fingers.
Rick Dowden says
March 15, 2019 at 1:18 pmHow. An I get iPad to remember a zoom in google maps for example?
bbc says
February 3, 2018 at 6:27 pmThis is not up to date. I have an iPad Pro with everything in Zoom settings turned off, but randomly double tapping in an app still creates a weird zoom effect. Would love a way to disable it, but this solution doesn’t work.
Lo says
March 20, 2017 at 4:08 amTHanks alot!
Doug says
December 13, 2016 at 5:33 amMy iPad used to have a zoom controller on the screen that allowed me to zoom in to any magnification and then position the text for reading. Very useful feature. One day that just disappeared and then double tap with three fingers started. Not as good but at least something. Now that doesn’t work. Zoom is so small why bother using. Why can’t we just spread out thumb and forefinger apart to zoom and KISS?
Doug says
December 13, 2016 at 5:21 amDouble tapping with three fingers used to work on my iPad. Now the amount of zoom is so small there’s barely a difference.