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Lately, I’ve started to notice more and more moments when I’m squinting at a screen and thinking, “The text here sure is tricky to read. Wonder when they made it so small?”
It’s not just the need for reading glasses that can make you wish the words on your display were a teensy bit bigger. Maybe you’re looking at a monitor from across the room during a presentation. Maybe you’ve misplaced your glasses or just realized you need a new prescription. Or maybe your eyes are just plain tired after a long night of binging your favorite show.
Whatever the cause, most modern computing platforms make it pretty easy to increase the size of text and decrease the amount of squinting required. Here’s how to make it happen.
To make everything — including notifications, the clock, and icons on your home screen — larger:
You can also activate a system-wide magnification feature that’ll let you zoom in on any area of your screen to make it meaningfully larger.
Like Android, iOS also has a system-wide magnification function, which you can activate by heading into the “Accessibility” area:
You will now have a window that you can move around the screen to magnify anything on that screen. Double-tap with three fingers to remove the window or bring it back again.
Most desktop web browsers have simple keyboard commands for increasing the text size on the fly. (Most also have these same commands available in their menus, but using keyboard commands is going to be a lot faster and easier.)
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