The problem is that if you zoom only a tiny bit, the main evidence can be slightly fuzzy text and graphics, since everything is being scaled just a little, along with an occasional slight movement of the entire screen because the zoomed image follows the position of the mouse pointer. Scrolling down with the Control key held down zooms back out.
#ZOOM FOR MAC BOOK MAC OS#
It’s easier to zoom the screen accidentally in Mac OS X, where holding down the Control key and swiping up with two fingers on a trackpad or rolling up on a scroll wheel or scroll ball will zoom in. When I raised this article topic on our TidBITS staff call, “ Take Control of Using Lion” author Matt Neuburg immediately chimed in to say that he had heard numerous reports over the years of people running into roughly the same problem in Mac OS X. And, if you want to change the magnification level, double-tap with three fingers and then drag up (to make objects on screen larger) or down (to make them smaller).
Those three fingers remain important, since double-tapping again returns you to the default magnification level. If, on the other hand, you’re thinking, “Hey, it might be nice to be able to zoom the screen on occasion,” you can turn Zoom on, and remember that the magic incantation to invoke it is a double-tap with three fingers. Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Zoom, and turn Zoom off.
#ZOOM FOR MAC BOOK HOW TO#
Regardless of how or why Zoom can be enabled inadvertently, if you’re experiencing this problem, here’s how to solve it. From what I can tell from reading a variety of Apple Support Communities discussions, it’s not entirely uncommon for Zoom to be toggled without the user’s knowledge, either by another user or by iOS gremlins. The confusing bit for my friend is that he didn’t turn Zoom on intentionally, and he is neither the sort to do such things unintentionally, nor to share his iPad with someone else who might have. Hidden deep within iOS’s accessibility settings, Zoom enables people with low vision to magnify the entire visible screen, in essence turning the iPad’s physical display into a window on a much larger virtual display. Everyone was stumped by his description of the problem, and it wasn’t until later, when he was messing around with the iPad in person with another friend, that they hit on the solution.įor unknown reasons, iOS on my friend’s iPad had decided to enable its Zoom feature. #1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebookĪ highly technical friend recently posted to a private mailing list of Mac and iOS programmers with an odd-sounding problem: after he updated his iPad 2 to iOS 5.1, he lost about a quarter-inch of the screen on the top and bottom of his iPad.#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.
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