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Re: zoom controls on (older) iPhone camera (2.5.1)?

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From: Jonathan Avila
Date: Nov 4, 2019 10:53AM

iOS does have a Magnifier feature that can be used from the accessibility shortcut. The magnifier is essentially the camera app with some added features for color filters and freezing the image. It does have a slider that is on-screen.

Jon

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I sometimes use the camera app as a magnifier if I'm trying to read text that is too small, for example on a restaurant menu (especially if the lighting is low) or the fine print on a legal document. I noticed when I pinch to zoom, a plus/minus slider appears. When it's visible, I can either slide the thumb, touch the plus/minus buttons, or swipe up/down to adjust the value when voiceover is running. But I have not been able to figure out how to get the slider to appear without first doing a pinch to zoom gesture.

If I could not pinch to zoom initially, then do I have to turn on assistive touch to start a zoom gesture in order to get the slider to appear?

A voiceover user can change the rotor setting to "zoom" and then adjust the magnification (although that doesn't cause the zoom slider to appear). A sighted mobility impaired user probably wouldn't use voiceover.

I looked at
https://support.apple.com/guide/iphone/take-photos-iph263472f78/ios#iph1300d7647
which has info on zooming the camera. It sounds like there might be zoom buttons on the newer iphones. I have an older phone, 6 plus, which is not listed on that help page except under the first bullet point about "all models" allow pinch to zoom. I have the latest iOS that's available for my ancient phone, 12.4.3.

My iPad shows the zoom slider all the time. I don't know if that's because it's a larger screen or because it's a newer iOS.

Anyone else have an older iPhone?