Can't magnify in Markup after iPhone iOS 17 Update

Definitely a game changer. Think I might just switch back to android… they’re just as good if not better than apples.

Please have this tool back. It was very useful and in fact I use it quite often compared to the other tools available in mark up. It was easier and more elegant.

It's amazing what you can do with an iPhone and it's stunning what you can't.

I want Apple to reconsider putting the magnifier tool back in the photo edit mode. This was a very useful feature.

Need to add the Magnifier feature

we don't need a signature in Markup, we need the Magnifying glass back! Why did you remove such unique functionality?

You are so correct !! When I spoke with a Senior Advisor over the issues she had no clue what I was talking about nor had any knowledge. She stated I’d receive an email concerning the issue within 48hrs. It’s been a week and still no reply !!! 😠

I too miss the magnifier in markup. I went to use it last Sunday on a photo to send to a vendor, poof it’s gone.

Apple has a habit of adding more glitz and glamour to updates then substance. Several years ago I sent feedback for an issue, it still hasn’t been resolved, guess they don’t listen to the little guys.

This is primarily a user-to-user support forum. Unfortunately it’s not the place to go if you want Apple to respond to you as it’s not how this forum is intended. The way you communicate with Apple directly would be by calling, using the Apple Support app, doing a chat/text session, or going to a physical Apple Store to work with the Genius Bar.

If this is a bug it will be addressed in a future update. Doesn’t mean you are promised it will be addressed on the next update (example, when people were posting on here that it wasn’t fixed on iOS 17.0.2 or this current 17.0.3 it may not have been addressed because those updates may have already been focused on the other issues like the heating issues 17.0.3 primarily addressed). It’s frustrating to wait of course but to put things in perspective…iOS 17 is only 3 weeks old and that’s assuming this issue started as soon as 17 was released.

While waiting there is the option of using other apps like Google Photos that has a magnifier for their markups (others also have it). It’s not a fix of course but if you absolutely need access to this right now it is an option.

To KaeBFly…

I think it would be helpful and put an ease to some minds, if they could make some kind of announcement about what’s going on, what’s being addressed and what’s going to remedy the update.

Do they even check and read messages here? I used the magnifier often, magnified pictures were incorporated to my keynote presentation. I used the magnifier when returning items purchased online to show cracks or dents. It’s so useful in many ways so please developers fix this right away!

I’m so upset about this too as I used the magnifying feature regularly and it’s just soooo wrong to REMOVE features that you’ve given to us previously!!! Updates should only be to fix issues that are harmful in anyway &/or “add features” but DONT EVER TAKE ANYTHING AWAY, I hate Apple does this!!! Where can I go to complain, because they don’t make it easy to do so. Maybe Apple could allow us to choose if we want it?

Enlarging text is not what I’m looking for. Prior to the recent IOS release and as late as October, if you had a picture of crowd or group and wanted to magnify the image of a single person or smaller collection of people in the photo the Magnify option on the Markup tool allowed you to do so. Thanks for your suggestion.

Again, i ask why? Why take an intuitive feature, like the ability to put a square frame around something in your image, and turn it into such a dreary process. Now it defaults to obscuring the image with a filled in block of color, requiring several steps just to use for its most obvious intended purpose

Are they planning to ditch markup altogether? Because that’s sort of how it feels.

you can’t. but u can use the Zoom tool in Accessibility, although you wont be able to change the size. You can apply filters though🙂:). Go to accessibility, then tap zoom, then on. you can choose how much it magnifies too. and choose the region.