Can’t enlarge pictures in text message

I have to thank Joe also - the hard tap worked for me (finally) on my iPhone 8+ after much frustration for several months.

User-friendly seems to be reversing a tad.

This worked for me. Press the top sound button and the turn off button at the same time.

Apple,

Thanks for once again taking something simple, and ruining it. I hope the person who conceived was very overpaid. Why in christ's name did you need to make it hard to just tap on the photo and zoom in like we could do before. I still can't nail down how to do it. STUPID.

Also, thanks for the overpriced workstations by a factor of 3x PC prices to get a decent graphics card. I'm on my way, thanks to your brilliance.

Your a genius !! It worked !! Thanks Joe.

Thanks for sharing. It's a user-unfriendly iOS 13 gesture feature.

Perfect! Hats off to Joe Vincent. I tried all sorts of things but never thought a hard tap would do it. Definitely not intuitive. But it works on my iPhone 11. Thank you.

I have restarted my iPhone 11 Max Pro and it didn't help. This problem is also on my wife's iPhone 8 Plus. We both have iOS 13.1.3

When I get a picture with a text, touching it pops up a blue check mark beside it, holding a finger on it gives options but no way to enlarge or zoom in on the picture as it used to do. I have checked with two other people both with iOS 13.1.3 but on another iPhone 8 Plus and another on a iPhone 7. Their phones do as supposed to when trying to enlarge a picture in a text message. Very strange.

thanks for the hard tap info. Problem is it doesn’t seem to work all the time which. So now I’m hard tapping my phone more than necessary. Is theirs a way for Apple to get us to break our $1100 phones. Also this Face ID bs can be thrown away. Now if have to actually lift the phone up to my face. It was much easier while working to reach over with a finger and then glance at what was on the phone. Basically the new features except photo features suck!!

Glad to know I’m not alone ...so frustrating Just WHAT is the point ,APPLE , in adding steps to something so simple? The other ridiculous change is not being able to simply hold an app to move it ...now we have to add the step of “rearranging apps.” I do not WANT to rearrange squat , I wanna move ONE thing people !!!!!!

Dear Apple Feedback Monkeys,

I had the very first iPhone and never strayed until 2015 when I bought a Samsung. I am back now with an iPhone 10x. Why did I leave? Because of software changes like this. Why would you allow your idiotic product marketing/management team to rollout this update that takes one simple gesture and turns it into 2? Do you actually test it for usability on real humans? Or do you sit around and congratulate yourselves on the genius idea of taking a simple task (enlarge a photo in text) and making it more complicated. I wish Steve Jobs would roll out from his grave and strangle the responsible parties slowly. If only this were the only issue of this sort...please punch them in the hallway for me if you can.

Amusing feed-back. I don't mind change and this one, whilst at face value seems a step back, my issue is the notion that every user knows immediately how to deal with it. It took me ages after a lot of reading to work this one out and it is simple when known! Good old Apple.

Now that we've mastered the picture challenge, I have a different, but related problem: In Messages, I'm having a hard time tapping on the blue icon to begin a new text. I've hard tapped, soft tapped, held my finger on it, etc. It takes several tries before I can get the new message screen to open. What the heck?? Any suggestions?

The need now to apply two gestures to zoom in on a text photo is only surpassed in annoyance by Apple’s decision to suddenly limit portrait mode in the XS to people only. The arrogance of “No person detected” when I want to take a food shot makes me want to throw the phone across the room. I should have stayed with the 8 plus, which allowed me to take food shots, which is part of my work product. Or Apple should have made this change clear to its retailers and consumers.. I used to be such a fan. Now I detest the text photo stupidity, the face recognition lack of quality and my inability to use portrait mode on whatever the **** I want.

Thank you for your helpful advice...it worked perfectly for me. After months of frustration, I finally had time to go online for advice, and I just do not understand why Apple cannot give us a quick list of major changes after an upgrade. There are almost invariably problems and that is the major reason I postpone upgrades, until I get "hounded" by the remembers, until I finally give in.

Same thing happens with my iPhone 11(13.4.1), cannot expand text pics. I reboot and it works, but next day when I try same problem. Memory leak? I don’t want to reboot my phone each time there is a pic I want to enlarge!