Do you ever find yourself having to zoom in or out of images when using Safari on the Mac? I know I do. Thankfully, Apple makes this convenient to do right in the Safari preferences.
In my case, I look at Apple’s patent filings each Tuesday and Thursday to see if there are any of interest to readers of “Apple World Today,” of which I’m the editor/publisher. I often have to zoom in or out on images to take a screenshot for articles.
Zooming in and out of images
You can do this by pressing command-hyphen to shrink (scale back) the view of an image and command-equal to enlarge (scale back) an image. Press Command and the zero (0) keys to return to the original size of the image or web page.
Also, a few site websites, such as that of the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office, have a pop-up window with “+” and “-“ signs for zooming in and out of an image.
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Making content bigger for web pages
You can also make the content larger for all web pages—or make the content larger for a specific web page.
In the Safari app on your Mac, choose Safari > Preferences > Websites.
Click Page Zoom.
![Safari Reader menu item](https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Graphic-two.png)
You’ll see a list of currently open websites. Each one will have a popup window that allows you to set and save the zoom/enlargement percentage anywhere from 50% to 300%. Also, you can click the “When visiting other websites” pop-up menu, to set the percentage.
![Safari zoom level preferences](https://eshop.macsales.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Graphic-three.png)
You can also set Zoom features in the Mac System Preferences app. Go to System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom.
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You can set keyboard shortcuts to zoom in and out. You can also set a scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom.
[Header photo by Jay Wennington on Unsplash]
Great Info! Thanks! I do have a similar question. How can I zoom in on email attachments?I get some that are hard to read. I have both 2010 iMac and 2020 iMac! I’m running out of reading glass strength ! Thanks again!