iPad Displays Enlarged Screen

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iPad Displays Enlarged Screen

My father-in-law (92) was playing Simon Says and somehow sent the screen in enlarged mode. Everything is blown up. Home page show only 9 apps enlarged. Can't scroll from body of screen. Only motion is at edges with only slight scroll. Can't even get to Settings. I had previously set Accessibility>Large Text>24pt to enlarge the App Icon Labels but that didn't work for that.
Restarted to no avail. Anyone have a clue or is it Support time? Thanks. Oh yea. On home page open, normal screen flashes for a second than expands.

MacPro 2.8GHz 2Quad '08, 8GB, 8800GT, 3-500, 1-320, 1TB FA BU, Mac OS X (10.5.6), Mini '09 2GHz, 4Gb, 320. G4 Mini, 1.4GHz, 1GB, 160

Posted on Dec 10, 2010 8:30 PM

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Answer 1

Dec 10, 2010 9:01 PM in response to Richard Rega

First, take a look at the Accessibility settings.

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Answer 2

Richard Rega Author

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Dec 10, 2010 9:11 PM in response to Michael Morgan1

I can't open the Accessibility tab. Took several minutes just to scroll down and left (on dock) to Settings. In Setting>General, screen won't scroll down that far without holding it at top of upward scroll. It keeps springing back up. I can see the Accessibility tab but it won't open. This *****! What could a 92 year old man do to this thing? Thanks

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Chris CA

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Dec 10, 2010 10:33 PM in response to Richard Rega

Three finger double tap and hold then drag down.
This unzooms the screen. Drag up zooms the screen.

Three finger tap, hold and drag moves the zoomed screen around.
Go into settings > Accessibility and turn off Zoom.

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Answer 4

Dec 10, 2010 10:40 PM in response to Richard Rega

I'll assume you've got Zoom enabled. To crank it back down, double-tap the screen using 3 fingers and then scroll down. You can then get to Settings and turn Zoom off.

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Richard Rega Author

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Dec 10, 2010 11:11 PM in response to Richard Rega

You are correct! Worked like a charm. I think I actually set Zoom on in order to use it for my father-in-law a long time ago but forgot that I set it and haven't used it with him yet. Thank you for reading and replying so quickly.

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