How to Use Your iPhone as a Magnifier

Here is a guide on how to use your iPhone using the new iOS 10 features. Apple has always considered accessibility needs when designing its hardware and software, and iOS has a number of features to assist these customers.

One of the best features of accessibility tools is the feature that lets you use your iPhone’s camera to magnify whatever you need to read. Many times we have ridiculously small prints on food labels, newspapers, or even just reading a book, and the iPhone can do it with just a few taps!

How to Use Your iPhone as a Magnifier

Here are the steps to enable Magnifier on your iPhone.

Watch the video above to see how to access your iPhone’s Accessibility settings.

Enable Magnifier

To access this hidden feature of iOS 10, you first need to access your iPhone by going to the app and then the tab.

You will see a large number of options for Accessibility including sections and we will access the Vision for Our Needs section and

The magnifying glass will have a feature you can enable and doing so will allow you to use the camera as a magnifying glass to see hard-to-read text prints. To be able to use this feature, we need a download for our iPhone.

Using the Magnifier

Now that we have this setting enabled, we can use the Magnifier for our button reading needs from any screen. When you do, you will see a window appear at the bottom of the screen for using your camera, along with several different icons.

You can navigate to the currently viewed image, focus, in and out, and change it all from this screen.

You can capture a frozen square and then change the colors further by tapping the icon. You will be able to see multiple color combinations that can further enhance your zoomed image and make it easier to read.

The magnifying glass is an excellent resource as we often need help reading things that are too small for our human eyes. Besides being a really great accessibility tool, this is another feature of the iPhone that can come in handy for all owners nowadays.