Chrome’s Android app will now let you zoom in on text without affecting the webpage
Published on: 2025-07-12 09:00:00
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Google is rolling out a handy update for Chrome on Android, as it will now allow you to zoom in on text without affecting the appearance of the webpage. You can use a slider to enlarge text, and then set it for one page or for all the sites you visit.
Previously, when you zoomed in on a page in Chrome’s Android app, it enlarged the entire page, making the site more difficult to navigate. You can try out the updated zoom feature by tapping the three-dot menu in the top-right corner of Chrome and then selecting how far you want to increase the size of the text.
The format of a webpage is no longer affected when zooming in on text. GIF: Google
Additionally, Chrome’s Optical Character Recognition tool, which converts an image of text into a machine-readable format, will now automatically recognize scanned PDFs on desktop, letting you highli
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