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Make apps bigger on iPhone or iPad; Since it is an era of smartphones and smartwatches, keeping a smartphone in your pocket is necessary for everyone. But the older you get the more you realize that your eyesight is getting weaker your older generation is having this issue very often.

Keeping the text size bigger is not new but now you can with the new updates of iOS you can make the app bigger on your iPhone and iPad.
So in this article, I’m going to show you a step-by-step guide on how to make apps icon bigger on your iPhone or iPad. By default, the icon on your iPhone or iPad is set to display at standard size. However, you can make these icons bigger by roughly 15 percent.
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How do I make the apps icon bigger on iPhone or iPad?
Since, with the “display zoom” option, you can make app bigger on your iPhone or iPad. Everything on your screen will increase by 15 percent, so you need to be comfortable with everything being slightly larger on your screen.
Just follow the following steps and you’ll learn how to make icons bigger on iPhone or iPad:
- Go to the “settings” app and scroll down to “Display & Brightness.”
- In the “display zoom” option tap on “view.” By default, your screen zoom is a standard size.

- Once the ‘display zoom” screen appears tab on “zoomed.”
- The image on the lower part of the screen will show you a preview of what your app’s icon will look like on your iPhone or iPad.
- With the “zoomed” option selected, tab on the “set” button in the upper right corner of your screen.

- A pop-up notification will appear on your screen saying “changing display zoom will restart iPhone.”
Your iPhone or iPad will turn off for a few seconds. When your device is reactivated, the zoom feature will be applied and all your apps icon will be bigger by 15 percent on your screen.
Can I make the app’s icon size back to standard on iPhone or iPad?
As I’ve mentioned earlier in the article, once you enable these setting everything will be larger on your device screen. So you need to be comfortable will everything being slightly bigger on screen.
If you don’t like this “zoomed” setting on your screen, you can easily change it back to normal.
To do this all you need to do is repeat the same process and instead of tapping on “Zoomed” tap on “Standard.” Once you click on “set” your device will restart again and all apps will be back to normal size.
Conclusion
In this article, you’ve learned how to make apps icon bigger on your iPhone or iPad. The above step-by-step guide will help you to do it.
Just go to the “setting app” on your iPhone or iPad and repeat the process. You can also read the Apple support regarding the app icons.
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