How To Turn Off The Magnifier On Iphone

Do you have trouble viewing the screen on your iPhone or seeing objects around you? If so, Apple's smartphone and tablet can help people with limited vision or related issues with several built-in features, including text and color settings, a Zoom mode, and a Magnifier tool.

Both the iPhone and iPad let you change the text size and alter color settings to make screens more legible. The Dark Mode introduced in iOS 13 and iPadOS paints screens and apps with a darker tint to make them easier to read in low-light conditions. The Zoom tool is a customizable option through which you zoom in on areas of the screen to better see text, images, and other content. A new and improved Magnifier unveiled with iOS/iPadOS 14 lets you better see objects up close through your device's camera.

Dark Mode

Since iOS/iPadOS 13, iPhones and iPads have had the ability to switch to a system-wide dark mode, which turns your screen from its usual bright white to a darker tone and changes text from back to white. Dark mode works with built-in apps and many third-party apps as well.

This feature can often make the screen easier to see and read, especially at night or under low-light conditions. To manually enable Dark Mode, go to Settings > Display & Brightness and tap the icon for Dark.

Alternatively, you can enable and disable dark mode from Control Center. To open Control Center on an iPhone X or later or on any iPad, swipe down from the upper-right corner of the screen. To trigger it on an older iPhone, swipe up from the bottom of the screen. Press down on the Brightness control and tap the option for Dark Mode, or tap the Dark Mode icon if it appears in Control Center.

Now, open some of the built-in apps such as Mail, Music, Messages, Calendar, Contacts, Reminders, and Notes to see how each one is affected. You'll see that the screen is black and the text is white. You'll also notice that some of your third-party apps have changed. Try it out to see if and when you prefer Dark Mode over Light Mode.

You may like Dark Mode but prefer to use it only under certain conditions, such as at night in a darker room. If so, you can set it to automatically go on and off. Return to Settings > Display & Brightness. Turn on the switch for Automatic. Tap the entry for Options. Here, you can set the schedule to go from sunset to sunrise.

For greater control, select the option for Custom Schedule and choose the hours when you want Dark Mode to turn on and then turn off. Go back to the previous screen to review and confirm the times you set for Dark Mode.

Change Text Size

If you're having trouble seeing the text on the screen, you can make it bigger and easier to read. To do this, go to Settings > Display & Brightness > Text Size. At the Text Size screen, move the slider to the right to increase the size. You can also make all text bold under the Display & Brightness menu.

You can see the effects your changes make by viewing the sample text, but to get the full effect, move through different screens and open various apps. You'll likely want to play around with the text size until it's just right for your eyes.

Color Contrast

Another way to make the screen easier on your eyes is by tweaking the color contrast. To review the different options, go to Settings > Accessibility > Display & Text Size. This screen offers switches to change the text size and apply a bold appearance. But you should check out the additional options available.

Turn on the switch next to Increase Contrast to enhance the intensity of colors between the foreground and background. The switch for Differentiate Without Color offers alternatives to user interface items that rely only on color, which can help people with different types of color blindness.

Options like Smart Invert and Classic Invert alter the colors on the screen in a similar way to Dark Mode.

Tap Color Filters for additional ways to distinguish various colors, which can help those with specific types of color blindness. Turn on the switch for Colors Filters and you can choose a filter for the specific colors that you have trouble seeing. You can also increase or decrease the intensity of the filter.

Tone down the intensity of bright colors by using the Reduce White Point switch and slider. And Auto-Brightness changes the brightness of the screen based on your surroundings.

Zoom

Still can't read the tiny print on the screen? Your device offers a built-in magnifying tool called Zoom. It allows you to get in close on your screen to better see text and images. To enable the feature, go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom. Turn on the switch for Zoom.

A small window pops up that zooms in on the portion of the screen on which the window is resting. You can move the Zoom window by dragging the small bar that appears in the middle bottom of the window. You can also swipe up and down on the screen to change which section is zoomed in.

Turning on the Follow Focus button moves the Zoom window to the text you're typing and will follow along as you type. Turning on Smart Typing moves the Zoom window when a keyboard pops up so that the text is zoomed in but the keyboard is not.

Show Controller displays a round on-screen controller that you can use to move the Zoom window around the screen. Tap the controller to display a menu with options to zoom out, choose the zoom region, resize the zoom lens, choose a filter, or hide the controller.

You can zoom in or out with the first menu option. Choosing Region lets you choose among a Pinned Zoom, a Full Screen Zoom, and a Window Zoom. With Pinned Zoom, your zoom window pins to the top, left, right, or bottom of the screen to zoom in on the content that appears in the other half.

Full-Screen Zoom makes the Zoom window disappear, while the entire screen is zoomed in instead. With Window Zoom, you use the Zoom window to zoom in on a small section of the screen as you move it around.

Finally, the option to Choose Filter applies a specific color filter to the Zoom window in an attempt to make the text easier to read.

Magnifier

Your device can serve as a magnifier so you can better view the world around you. The built-in Magnifier tool uses the camera to zoom in like a magnifying glass. You can use the Magnifier to better see faraway objects or enlarge items that are closer to you, like text in a book or on a computer screen. To enjoy the latest features of the Magnifier, update your device to iOS/iPadOS 14 or higher.

On your iPhone or iPad, enable the Magnifier in Settings > Accessibility > Magnifier. The new and improved Magnifier then appears on your Home Screen as an app. Tap the icon to launch the tool.

Notice that the objects within the view of your camera are magnified in the viewfinder. Using the Magnifier panel, drag the slider or pinch your fingers in and out to zoom in and out of the object. You can move the Magnifier panel around the screen by dragging any empty area of it with your finger.

Tap the icon for Brightness and then drag the slider to increase or decrease the brightness. Tap the icon again to turn off the Brightness slider.

Tap the Filter icon to choose between different filters and find one that improves the clarity of the object. Tap the icon again to turn off the Filter gallery. Tap the Flashlight icon to turn on your device's flashlight and throw more light onto the object.

To capture an image of the object you're viewing, press the Shutter button. You can then view any images you capture by tapping the View button. Swipe through the thumbnails of your captured images and tap a specific picture to view it. From here, you can also tap the Share icon to share an image with someone else via an app or service. Tap the End link to return to the Magnifier screen.

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