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I updated my phone the other day and now I can’t enlarge a picture in a text message. When I hold on the picture all it wants to do is to delete it! How do I zoom in to look at a picture close up?
I had the same experience - showing the circles with check marks in them - and then it just occurred to me that I was in a "delete selected" mode or something. You have to cancel out of that first (upper right "cancel"), then it works.
So the correct procedure is NOT to 2-finger spread on an image to zoom - that is what gets you into that "delete selected" mode described above. You have to tap on the image once first, it expands to fill screen, THEN you can 2-finger spread zoom in further.
why can't i enlarge a photo on my phones text msg
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.
I agree. The hard tap barely works. The touch can't be too hard or too soft. Very frustrating.
This worked for me. Press the top sound button and the turn off button at the same time.
You’re a genius!
Thank you sooooo much. It works.
Agree w all this and all the other posts saying it is a bad change- but helpful button is grayed out so I can’t just tap
I have found that if I first tap into the text box as if I am going to write something and then tap on the image, I am able to enlarge.
Using an IPhone 11 I can’t enlarge a photo for viewing. If I tap it (as before), it wants to delete. Unable to expand. How can I do this? Or is there a future update in the works?
That's kind of crazy but okay.
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.
A simple finger tap worked for me👍🏻
YAY, hard tap worked... thanks , been so frustrated about this like many others 👍🏻
Thank you! It has been driving me absolutely crazy and your solution seems to work. I would occasionally accidentally zoom in but I could never recreate it.
Did not work for me. In fact there are small little holes by the picture and if I tap it it fills with blue like a check mark it refuse to let me enlarge the picture why?
Can’t enlarge pictures in text message
