Tiny font using mail in iOS 10

I have tried then all on my iPhone 7 plus and only outlook works (plus Newton is crazy expensive). I had created my own discussion on this and was attacked buy multiple fanboys and girls who told me since they didn't have this problem that it's either a)not a big deal b)very few people are affected and c) that I should stop trying to complain since they use it fine and haver been using for x amount of years.

So I'm done. If this bs persists I'm going back to Android. I love the notifications on this... But if I can't read the email... What good is that

Yes, i went into the MAAS 360 settings, under Mail, Contacts, Calendar...and turned off the setting Mail View Size to Fit, this turned back to normal. Looks like they set this as a default when they rolled out the last MAAS version.

I have the same issue except it is happening sporadically. It seems that it only happens when an email has a Table embedded in the body of the email. The mail app then adjusts everything (including the font size) so that the width of the table fits within the width of the iPhone screen.

Unfortunately I have not found a fix!

This has been a problem for a long time. I had iPhones for years and really really did not want to switch to Android. But here in type on my S8. Apple has the best user interface. Problem is I can't read my emails. It's a shame.

Hi elyar1,

I have given up on Apple's native mail app and have completely moved over to Outlook for iOS. It consistently renders text at very readable (but not explosively large!) sizes. It supports all my e-mail clients, although it does require 2-factor authorization if you want to use your iCloud mail account. And it does not have the problem you linked to in your most recent comment.

iOS 11 offered no relief to the problems addressed in this discussion. In fact, I think it made things worse when using Dynamic Type functionality and turning larger text sizes on in Accessibility settings. If you place the slider two places to the right of the midpoint, the text is now even more crazy huge than before. If you place the slider just one position to the left of that (one place to the right of the midpoint) the text in some emails reverts to gnat gonad size.

We live in baffling times my friend.

That's sad to hear, but not surprising - I doubt that this will be ever fixed, although some folks in neighbouring threads assert that the issue is gone in iOS 11.

I am still on 10.3.3, but today I have started receiving some HTML emails in legible San Francisco - I wonder if there is indeed some problem with Exchange servers that is being addressed?

I am still having the problem. Last year I updated from iPhone 6 to 7 and now to X and ios11, but still some emails are impossible small to be read!. I changed to Outlook but the same email bodies also appear in micro font. I am crazy with this problem. Trillion dollar company and can't provide a decent email experience???. Now I am stuck with my iphoneX until I finish paying for it... Good job Apple...

I have IOS 10.3.3 and the font is tiny also and I cannot find where to change the font size. This started happening spontaneously and I don't know what to do about it. I tried the suggestion about "kill the app" but it tells me it will delete all my info from my device which I really don't want to do. Any other suggestions?

Wonder Woman

Hi dclearyea, Doing below didn't increase the size of INCOMING emails?

I don't know what caused it, but I killed the application and then restarted it and everything seeme back to normal.

I'm having this problem also. Updated to iOS 10 yesterday and ever since emails I normally get and are readable (even if they are wider - I just have to scroll to the side) are now tiny font and unreadable. Not all messages. Just some (i.e. bank transaction alerts). Both newly received email as well as older before the upgrade. I've tried resizing fonts/text in various places:

Settings-Accessibility-Larger Text

Settings-Accessibility-Zoom

Settings-Display & Brightness-Text Size

Settings-Display & Brightness-View (Display Zoom)

as well as double-tapping the message

-----all to no avail!

I had the same issue.. after upgrading to iOS-10 all of my emails (in the native iOS Mail app) were in a tiny almost unreadable font. I restarted my phone (off/on) and that fixed the issue.. font size is back to normal.

Try restarting (off/on) your phone.. that worked for me to fix the tiny font issue in mail.

I had the same issue.. after upgrading to iOS-10 all of my emails (in the native iOS Mail app) were in a tiny almost unreadable font. I restarted my phone (off/on) and that fixed the issue.. font size is back to normal.