Apps in iOS 14 include the new Magnifier.
David PhelanApple iOS 14 is now on to its fifth beta – the public beta arrived on Wednesday, August 19 and you can read all about it in Anthony Karcz’s masterful post here on Forbes. He even reveals how to make your home screen app-free.
But it continues to surprise. The big-ticket updates are beginning to bed in, but smaller features are still coming through the door. One of them is the Magnifier.
Now, if you’re under a certain age, with 20/20 vision, you will likely not have come across the Magnifier. But you will. As one’s sight decreases, it becomes increasingly useful.
The Magnifier app on the Home Screen in iOS 14.
David PhelanUp until now, you had to go searching for it. First, you’d launch the Settings app, then choose Accessibility, then Magnifier. When you toggled the switch to on, you’d set up a highly useful shortcut.
Triple-press the side button and the Magnifier feature would launch. It looks like a camera screen, but for the fact that the bottom part of the display is taken up with a magnifying slider. Touch this and the camera zooms in to enlarge what you’re looking at.
A view through the Magnifier lens in iOS 14.
David PhelanThis is ideal for reading menus in trendy restaurants or other documents in other modishly dark rooms.
But now, with iOS 14 Public Beta 5, the app has gone mainstream. The same triple-press shortcut still works, but now there’s an actual Magnifier app which can sit on the Home Screen or in your App Library.
And within the app itself, everything has changed. The magnifier slider is now bigger – that is, easier to see – than before. The torch button to add light as well as magnification, has moved to the right and the filters option is still there. Unlike the regular camera filters, these are designed to enhance contrast so you can choose blue on yellow, inverted colors and other helpful settings. The inverted colors, by the way, is additionally very cool-looking, so you might want to take a picture with this filter on.
Luckily, you can, with a simple press of the shutter button.
There are also contrast and brightness sliders to adjust. These are new in this version of the Magnifier.
This is one of those details that nobody does as well as Apple and it’s typical that this is something that has had almost no publicity yet.
And it’s one of those things you’re going to be glad you came across. If not yet, then one day.
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