Magnify Your iPhone Screen

Your iPhone: A handy magnifier, anytime you need it.

Let’s take a look at a really useful tool on your iPhone — the Magnifier. It turns your phone into a powerful handheld magnifying glass, perfect for reading small print on things like pill bottles or grocery labels.

To start, open your Control Center. If your iPhone has Face ID, slide one finger down from the top right corner of the screen to the middle of your screen — and then lift your finger. You’ll see a small panel appear with rows of gray and white icons.

Look for the Magnifier icon — it looks like a tiny black magnifying glass inside a gray circle, usually near the bottom row of that panel.

Give it a tap, and your screen will switch to a live camera view — that’s your magnifier.

Hold your phone’s camera over whatever you’d like to read.

At the bottom of the screen, you’ll see a slider bar — drag it to the right with your finger to make things larger, or left to make them smaller.

That’s it — instant magnification.

If you’d like to make opening the Magnifier even quicker, you can create a shortcut.

From your Home Screen, tap the gray “Settings” icon — it looks like a little gear wheel.

Scroll down — slowly — until you see Accessibility. It has a blue circle with a white person-shaped figure inside. Tap that.

With accessibility opened, keep scrolling down toward the bottom until you find Accessibility Shortcut — it’s usually the last or next-to-last option on the list. Tap that once.