Stop squinting at your screen: Learn how to make the text bigger on your computer, iPhone, Android, tablet, or web browser.
Have you found yourself straining to read text on a web page? What about text on your tablet or phone? Fortunately, increasing text size on all of your devices is quick and easy.
Increasing text size on your computer
Windows 10
Select the Start button
Select Settings
Select Ease of Access
Select Display
To make just the text on your screen larger, adjust the slider under Make text bigger.
To make everything larger, including images and apps, choose an option from the drop-down menu under Make everything bigger.
Mac
This method changes the resolution of your Mac, meaning the number of pixels displayed on your screen. Higher resolution means crisper graphics, but usually means smaller text. Lowering the resolution on your Mac will increase your font size–and the size of everything else.
Try it out:
Select the Apple icon in the top left corner
Select System Preferences
Select Displays
Under Resolution, select Scaled
Select a lower resolution (eg 1024 x 640)
Increasing text size on your phone or tablet
Android phone
Tap Apps (this may be an icon on your home screen, or you may need to swipe down on the Home screen to pull up the Apps screen)
Tap Settings
Tap Display (on som tablets, you may need to select Device, then Display)
Tap Font or Font and screen zoom
Use the slider to increase text size from tiny to huge
Samsung Tablet
From the Home screen, tap Apps
Tap Settings, then Display
Tap Font style
Tap (or use the slider) to select the size you prefer (such as Tiny, Huge, etc.)
iPhone and iPad
Tap Settings from your home screen
Tap General then Accessibility
Tap Larger Text
At this step, you may need to enable Larger Accessibility Sizes
Use the slider to make text larger or smaller
Increasing text size on your browser
Using Microsoft Edge, Internet Explorer, Chrome, Firefox or Safari, follow these instructions:
Hit CTRL (Mac users: Use Command) and the plus sign (+) or minus sign (–) to increase and decrease text size.
Or, select your browser’s main menu and use Zoom.
In most browsers, you will need to increase the text size on every new web page you open. But, if you use Chrome or Firefox, you can change the default font size on every website you visit.
Change the default font size on every web page
Chrome
Select the Chrome menu (the three dots on the right hand corner)
Select Settings
Scroll down to the Appearance section
Use the Font size drop-down to increase or decrease font size
Firefox
Select the main menu (three lines in the top right corner)
Select Options
Scroll down to Language and Appearance
Choose your preferred default font and font size
Select Advanced…
Choose your Minimum font size
Select or deselect Allow pages to choose their own fonts
Now you’ll have an easier time reading and enjoying pages on your computer, tablet, phone, or browser.
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