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Apple's Magifier app can help you read small or faraway print.
The preinstalled app is free and easy to use.
It also includes other features, such as text-to-speech.
Forgetting your glasses or finding yourself squinting at the minuscule text on the back of a medicine bottle or a food box can be frustrating. But if you have an iPhone, as they used to say, there's an app for that: You can use the built-in Magnifier app to immediately zoom in on tiny print, whether you're up close or far away. It's a super useful tool. (If you have an Android phone, there's a similar Google Magnifier app available.)
The Magnifier app comes preinstalled on your iPhone. The easiest way to find it is to swipe down to access your search bar, and start typing in "Magnifier." The icon is a black square with a gray magnifying glass.
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The feature has been included as an accessibility tool on the iPhone and iPad since 2016, and became its own app in 2020, with iOS 14. As of last year, it's also available on MacOS.
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