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How To Make The Keyboard Bigger On Your iPhone
Essentially all electronic devices have "default" settings that are calibrated during production, with the intention of being the ideal setup for the average user. However, these can also be adjusted if needed. So while the average iPhone user may not feel the need to dive into their settings as soon as initial setup is complete, another might want to spend a few minutes recalibrating a number of functions and features.
That can be particularly true for text size, which the iPhone is largely well-equipped with out of the box, but it may not be large enough for some readers, for any number of reasons. Whether your eyesight benefits from larger fonts, you prefer to use your iPhone at a distance and bigger text would be more beneficial, or you just like things to be magnified a bit, there are ways for you to get your smartphone more in-line with your keyboard and text display preferences and needs.
Enlarging Your iPhone's Keyboard
When you say you want to make the keyboard on your iPhone bigger, do you mean you want the keyboard itself to be larger so the buttons are more spread out? Or do you want the text to appear larger so it's easier to read? If you're looking for the former, the answer is generally very simple: Turn your iPhone on its side (landscape orientation). Most apps that provide keyboard functions and support both portrait and landscape view modes will automatically give you a larger keyboard when you tilt your phone 90-degrees. Though this method won't actually affect the text size itself. To do that:
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- Open the Settings app and scroll down to Display & Brightness (below General and Control Center).
- Open the Display & Brightness menu, then scroll to the bottom and select Display Zoom.
- Default should be the current selection, in which case choose Larger Text instead and then select Done.
- A confirmation window will appear asking if you want to accept the Zoom setting and restart your iPhone. Select Use Zoomed to confirm and wait for your iPhone to restart.
- Your Home Screen, app icons, text, and keyboards should now appear larger. To return to default settings, go back to Display Zoom and choose Default.
You may be tempted to adjust the Text Size setting instead, but this method only affects the size of Dynamic Type (i.e. text displayed on screen) and will not change the size of your keyboard.
