If your Lock Screen icons are magnified on your iPhone, iPad or iPod touch

If the icons on your Lock Screen appear too large or are magnified to fit the screen, your device may have the Zoom feature turned on. Find out how to turn off Zoom.

Turn off Zoom in Settings on your device

An iPhone showing the Lock Screen with the Zoom feature turned on

If you can’t access Settings because your Lock Screen icons are magnified, double tap with three fingers on the display to zoom out.

An iPhone showing the Accessibility options for Zoom

To turn off Zoom:

  1. Go to Settings > Accessibility > Zoom.

  2. Tap to turn Zoom off.

Turn off Zoom in the Finder or iTunes

You can also use the Finder or iTunes to turn off Zoom:

  1. Connect your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch to a computer.

  2. On a Mac with macOS Catalina or later, open a Finder window. On a Mac with macOS Mojave or earlier, or on a PC, open iTunes.

  3. Select your device when it appears in the Finder or iTunes.

  4. Click Configure Accessibility.

    A Finder window showing the options for configuring accessibility with a connected iPhone

  5. To turn off Zoom, deselect the Zoom tick box.

    A Finder window showing the options to turn Zoom on or off with a connected iPhone

  6. Click OK.

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