Can u increase font size in safari

Hi Maz. This is great. But my safari browser on iPhone doesn't have a bookmarks bar. Don't suppose you have a nifty solution for the microscopic text problem on iphone (it's 2017, you would have thought apple would have sorted this!) thanks. Girish

Go to settings and under general go to accessabilty, its somewhere at the bottom and once your there click the zoom option, that option lets you zoom in on the screen, it increases everything, you just use three fingers to zoom in, and you can also use large text, its also an option in accessibility it increases the font of the letters to your size of choice.

Hope i helped ..:D

iBooks is programmed to change font size and then send "extra" words to the next page. Safari is not, because web pages cannot be dynamically sized to spill over to other pages.

If a web page requires you to pan and scan, then it was not well designed by modern standards.

Well, in most cases the usual pinching together or apart using two fingers works fine for me.

You could also try to double tap on the page you're reading, which should enlarge that page.

Couple i use with eyes older than yours 🙂

The control scroll zoom in System Prefs accessability

and the simple command + or - quick keys.

Best.

Theres another way to increase the font on webpages, on most of the web pages that have text, theres a small button on the URL on the top of the ipad once the webpage loads and it says (reader) click that and all the text on the web page turns into like a page from ebooks and you can change the font on there, i think its in IOS 5 if you have your ipad updated, heres a link as to what im talking about.

http://paulhami.edublogs.org/2011/12/02/safari-reader-makes-reading-web-pages-ea sier-on-iphones-and-ipads/

Hi Katie,

Isn't it ridiculous that when you ask a simply perfectly valid question, all these silly know-it-alls start crawling out of the woodworks and begin to answer you by saying - use the reader, use pinch and zoom, use accessibility... They are so ignorant that they see things in their own narrow vision and refuse to answer the question you are asking.... directly and answer it as they think they know WHAT YOU REALLY MEAN. Why don't they just answer the question that's asked instead of twisting the question and asking why do want to do that. Irrelevant why, but they do!!!

ANYWAY.........

Well, there is a way of doing what you want and it's pretty nifty.

Have a look at this URL http://osxdaily.com/2012/05/11/change-font-size-safari-ios-bookmarklets/

It works by attaching a piece of code to a bookmark. You create 2 bookmarks called "+" and "-". Then you place these bookmarks on your toolbar in Safari.

Then when you view a webpage with the simply awful and crappy default Apple font, you just press the + icon a few times and there you go, the font size increases to a respectable size instead of the unrespectable and horrible default sized midget dwarf microscopic silly Apple font.

I hope this solves your problem.

Maz

Thank you Maz! I had the same question, and already knew the lame zoom tools. Looking forward to adding these scripts to my iPad.

Hi there,

You are absolutely welcome.

I use this method but find that you can only increase font size by about 2 points, maybe 3, before the characters in the lines start merging but it does the job, I think!

Take care,

Maz

I found this discussion by googling "ios safari text size" but the text was too small to read on my iphone. I had used the reader function before with mixed results but decided to try it on this page to see if I could read the discussion. I couldn't -- reader showed me the question (in a legible font size) but none of the replies!

Thank you Maz for the helpful response. I have installed the bookmarks, it works and improves things

This issue is one of the most major shortcomings of iOS in my oppinion

using the reader function just doesn't solve the problem, because it doesn't show you the txt of the whole page: for example, on this web page: it only converts the txt from one pane into the reader view. the same happens with wikipedia.

THe the reader is otherwise a great solution, but since most reading matterial comes from the web and is broken up by links which flow in a browser, but not in the reader- it's not a solution.

in OS X u can make the txt larger in safari- this is precisely what i and many people have been looking to do for years. Why is this still not possible?

A really good question does anybody from Apple read this, because it's been bugging me a lot to!

Come on look at the type case size in Facebook it unbelievable! 😕

i can't find the edit button on the latest os version, is it me or or is it gone?

can you help?