Apple’s Magnifier app does exactly what it sounds like. It gives your iPhone or iPad a built-in magnifier — the only thing cooler. With iOS 14, Magnifier has gained new powers and is easier to locate and use more often. Magnifier uses your iPhone’s camera to make fine print easier to read, and once you’ve enabled it, you can place it directly on your home screen from the App Library if you’d like.
How to set it up
You may already be familiar with Magnifier as it has been around since iOS 10. You can find it via Accessibility options of the Settings app, and you can still set it as an accessibility shortcut by going to Settings > Accessibility > Accessibility Shortcut > Magnifier. Then triple click on Page button on your iPhone or iPad to start zooming in by pointing the iPhone camera at the item you want to read. You can also set it up in Control Center by going to Settings > Control Center. Then swipe down to find Magnifier and tap plus sign next to it to add it to your choices, then drag up or down to set screen priority.
Magnifier functionality
When you’re in the Magnifier interface, the slider lets you zoom in on the image, adjust the contrast, or boost the brightness — or you can use pinch and zoom gestures, or simply slide your finger up or down the screen to adjust the magnification. Although Zoom is the default primary control, you can bring one other secondary control to the front of the interface: Filters, Brightness, Contrast, or Flashlight. Touch Lamp icon to turn on the phone’s LED light and hold the icon to adjust the brightness level. A set of filters allows you to invert colors in different combinations, where black text on white text can look like a photographic negative of white text on black. Other options include inverted gray shades and various combinations of yellow, red and blue. These brightness, contrast and color filters adjust what you see to make details more visible.
Once you have the print in focus, you can quickly capture a picture of the screen’s contents for more stable reading. Touch Lenses freeze frame button. Touch Overlapping rectangles to the right of the trigger to create a series of freeze frames and tap View review them or Share to send them a message or email. Touch End in the upper left corner to exit that mode. With iOS 14, Magnifier lets you take multiple pictures in a row, but those pictures aren’t stored in the Photos app.
Telescoping
While a real magnifier has a fairly limited range, the iPhone’s magnifier can magnify distant objects by several feet using the camera’s 10x digital zoom, allowing you to decipher an object from afar. It’s not super fancy, but if you need to distinguish a leaf from a small bird, it can do it for you.
Discovering people
The new magnifier feature in iOS 14.2 for iPhone 12 Pro and 12 Pro Max lets your phone alert you when other people are nearby by using augmented reality (AR) and machine learning to detect people’s locations. This is especially useful for blind and partially sighted users. These two iPhone models work differently than other iPhones because they include light ranging (LiDAR) technology that allows them to accurately calculate distances.
Discovering people is a method you would use sporadically as needed. To call it, you have to tap people icon. Then, when other people come into view of the iPhone’s camera, iOS recognizes them and uses your people detection settings to alert you, dynamically measure their distance from you, and notify you with sound, speech, or haptic feedback. The feedback gets louder or more frequent as the other person gets closer to you — and you can adjust the frequency and volume of the feedback.
- Touch equipment icon in the lower left part of the Magnifier application.
- Touch Plus icon next to it Discovering people in Secondary controls and drag to Primary Controls.
- Touch Discovering people.
- Adjust units (meters or feet), pitch distance (distance and pitch of audio feedback), and feedback (any mix of sounds, speech, and touch).
- Touch Done.
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