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Resizing of fonts in email threads was always consistent with IOS9. Not with IOS10. In fact, the font is smaller and makes it difficult to read if you are visually challenged. This is not an improvement and I was very happy with IOS9. Why fix something that is not broke?????
Make the font even bigger
- Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text (or Larger Type in iOS 7).
- Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes (or Larger Dynamic Type in iOS 7) for bigger font options.
- Drag the slider to select the font size you want.
Turn on other Accessibility settings
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility to make the text bold, increase the contrast, or invert the colors on your screen.
Change the font size on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
There are also some additional Accessibility features available for vision needs. You can view all of them here: iOS. A wide range of features for a wide range of needs.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care.
Make the font even bigger
- Go to Settings > General > Accessibility > Larger Text (or Larger Type in iOS 7).
- Turn on Larger Accessibility Sizes (or Larger Dynamic Type in iOS 7) for bigger font options.
- Drag the slider to select the font size you want.
Turn on other Accessibility settings
Go to Settings > General > Accessibility to make the text bold, increase the contrast, or invert the colors on your screen.
Change the font size on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch
There are also some additional Accessibility features available for vision needs. You can view all of them here: iOS. A wide range of features for a wide range of needs.
Thanks for using Apple Support Communities.
Take care.
Thank you for responding to my concern. However, I have done this and I am aware of the Font size slider, etc. I made words larger. This has still not corrected the problem. Messages I received in my email are erratic in that certain ones are large and I can read however there still remains many emails with the smaller print. In addition, the trailers to the email [previous emails] still appear in a very small font. Unfortunately this problem persists.
Zoom
- To turn on Zoom, use three fingers and double-tap the screen.
- To increase the level of Zoom, use three fingers to double-tap and hold, then move your fingers up or down on the screen to increase or decrease magnification.
Jameson - Thanks for your response. My point is that I did not have this problem with IOS9 . I understand about zoom but this does not really help in the circumstances. But I believe you are correct about emails are formatted not working with Dynamic Type".However, it worked before with IOS9.
I agree with BryanCBT. After changing font size in both Display and Accessibility it does not work like IOS9. IOS9 always made the font larger in email-no zoom required.
Can you please make 10 like 9?
I also have this problem on and off since iOS 10. Even mailing list messages that were always appropriately fitted to the mail screen in iOS 9 are shrunk down and appear like a little web page inside a browser within the mail window. Double tapping does not expand such messages to fit-to-screen as before. Turning the phone to landscape view doesn't always work with these reduced sizes. Sometimes, if I rotate from portrait to landscape, the sizing improves if I again rotate back to portrait, but not always. This problem is definitely related to iOS 10 and I only experience it in Mail. There is no change to font sizing in any other app.
Thank you to Cwwalkerjax and Spediteur for your support and assistance in helping me describe the problem(s) - much appreciated as the problem still persists
I Have experienced this problem as well. Definitely an issue with iOS 10, or some feature/setting that came with it. For most emails (HTML or rich text) received, changes to the text size in settings has no effect at all. This was not an issue with ios9. in iOS 9, you could make text monster size in settings and it would instantly adjust text size in emails. Never had an issue. Now can't read 90% of emails. As usual, I'm regretting upgrading since email is mostly what I do on my phone.
Apple- please note that this issue is being widely reported on various sites. Here are two others as examples:
http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/253397/how-can-i-fix-the-tiny-type-in-i os-10-mail
http://www.applevis.com/forum/ios-ios-app-discussion/ios-10-dynamic-font-scaling -broken-mail
i also read an email marketing site where they lament at the significant email scaling issues they are having with ios10. I am guessing the issues are linked.
Have you tried force closing mail and then restart the phone?
Force an app to close on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch - Apple Support
I should have mentioned in my earlier post that I did try a restart and it did appear to resolve the matter, but eventually I started receiving emails that presented the problem. Fewer of them at first, then more over the period of a week or more. In some cases, the message looked okay in portrait mode, but when I rotated my iPhone to landscape to gain some readability, the sizing issue presents itself again - the message does not fill the landscape layout. This solution only seems to have worked temporarily for me.
In my situation, the reboot did nothing - I too am sorry I uploaded IOS10 - please restore to ios9 which worked fine!!
I'M having exactly the same issues as listed by all the people above, AND agree it wasn't a problem with IOS9. Each upgrade seems to make things a little bit more difficult for people with visual impairment.
PLEASE solve this, for me and other people with very bad eyesight a lot of what we see in the world is through our device.
I Have a iPhone 6 plus and an ipad.
I Notice you seem to have stopped replying - are you and Apple actually doing anything about this? You probably are leaving yourselves open to litigation the way you are slowly eroding the ability of the visually impaired to access their emails.
i am having this exact same issue with Several users here at my Municipal Government. i am looking trying to downgrade their phones to IOS 9 to fix for them.
IOS10 Mail FONT Size Issues
