iPhone 5 For Dummies, 6th Edition

I Can See Clearly Now

If you know how to open a web page (if you don’t, read the preceding section, “Blasting off into cyberspace”), we can show you how radically simple it is to zoom in on the pages so that you can read what you want to read and see what you want to see, without enlisting a magnifying glass.

Try these neat tricks:

Double-tap the screen so that the portion of the text you want to read fills up the entire screen: It takes just a second before the screen comes into focus. By way of example, check out Figure 11-4. It shows two views of the same Sports Illustrated web page. In the first view, you see what the page looks like when you first open it. In the second one, you see how the picture takes over much more of the screen after you double-tap it. To return to the first view, double-tap the screen again.

Pinch the page: Sliding your thumb and index finger together and then spreading them apart (or as we like to say, unpinching) also zooms in and out of a page. Again, wait just a moment for the screen to come into focus.

Press down on a page and drag it in all directions, or flick through a page from top to bottom: You’re panning and scrolling, baby.

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