It’s perhaps the very smallest improvement in iOS 17, but that’s appropriate because what Apple has done is increase text magnification to help you see more clearly. Here’s how to use it.
It’s actually much longer since Apple introduced the loupe, which is a tool for magnifying text immediately beneath the user’s finger. It’s named after the word for jewellers’ or artists’ small magnifying glass.
As well as greater magnification for the text under the loupe, the whole feature is now highlighted where before it was hard to even determine the border. Nicely, the color of the loupe highlight changes to be clear against whatever the background is.
This could all be the very easiest iOS feature to use, but it has limits. While the text shown in the loupe is significantly larger than before, it’s still only a small selection of text that is being magnified.
When you do that, though, you inevitably start selecting items at the same time. Plus if your finger grazes close to an image, that image won’t be magnified and will get selected.
This story originally appeared on Appleinsider
