How to open a 'magnifying glass' on macbook pro. OSX 10.12.6

Please bear with me on this one... I was just looking at a document in either Safari or Preview, (I believe Safari), and accidentally opened a 'magnifying glass' by a couple of accidental button presses.


One button was the command and the other was from the upper left part of the keyboard. I may have been trying to switch between documents by using command+~.


Anyway, when the magnifying glass opened, I got caught up in trying to make it go away. And, by that time couldn't figure out how to recreate it. And, I had even forgotten what I was trying to do in the first place, (I had a bunch of windows open and I believe I was trying to 'clean up')


MacBook Pro 15", macOS 10.12

Posted on Feb 18, 2020 12:46 PM

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Posted on Feb 19, 2020 1:31 AM

Open System Preferences> Accessibility> Zoom. These are the options for the Zoom tool,

as you have the box popping up you have set Zoom Style to Picture in Picture.

You have probably activated it by pressing the Alt/Option (⌥) and Command (⌘) and 8 keys

or the ⌥⌘= keys to make the Zoom box disappear press the ⌥⌘- keys.


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