big font eases my eyes so that they don't have to work so hard. though it is not the main reason that I upgraded.
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Display Zoom: Standard vs Zoomed?
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big font eases my eyes so that they don't have to work so hard. though it is not the main reason that I upgraded.
Yes, Zoom mode affects font size. When you switch from Standard to Zoomed, text resizes to fit the new scale. The "zero" mark on the text slider moves to a larger size.
You can then manually override the Zoomed text down a few notches (just as you can shrink text in Standard mode) so that you get back to the Standard mode size (for apps coded with the right kinds of dynamic text boxes). I don't know for sure whether sliding all the way left for small text results in the same size, or if Zoom mode won't let you go as far as Standard (or whether Standard lets you go as large as Zoom when sliding right), but I do know that the middle of the scale is very much affected by the display setting.
Safari has always had a fluid zoom from microscopically illegible text to giant screen-sized letters, and the whole app is basically a giant content box.
You do get an extra row, just not an extra column. The screen is not wide enough for five.
I tried the zoom on my Iphone 6 and it was horrible on my eyes. I switched back to standard. Maybe the zoom is for 6 plus users.
You don't get an extra row compared to the 6. There is room for an extra column, using smaller icons and tighter spacing.
You don't own a plus right? You write very authoritatively for somebody who is guessing.
You get an extra row compared to Zoom mode. You made no reference to comparing the 6 and 6+ and this whole thread has been about Zoom vs. Standard.
iOS icons are 76 points square. The iPhone 6+ could only fit 5 icons across in Standard mode if they had a roughly 5-point gap between them, which is less than a letter's width. In other words, five won't fit.
I'm not guessing. You don't need an iPhone 6+ to know how the window server canvas works. You just need Xcode, so my iPhone 6 and developer account are more than adequate.
That and a little math.
For some reason, you're willing to give up the use of your 6+ in native mode in exchange for oversized home screen app icons. That's fine, but stop telling people there's no difference when you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
Apparently at least one more time:
The iPhone 6 loses a row of icons in Zoom mode (7 in Standard vs. 6 in Zoomed) because it's running as an iPhone 5. The iPhone 6+ has 7 rows in both modes, because the 6+ Zoom mode uses the iPhone 6 layout, but you lose all the UI features unique to the 6+ when it's running in 6 mode.
The iPhone 6 loses a row of icons in Zoom mode (7 in Standard vs. 6 in Zoomed) because it's running as an iPhone 5. The iPhone 6+ has 7 rows in both modes, because the 6+ Zoom mode uses the iPhone 6 layout, but you lose all the UI features unique to the 6+ when it's running in 6 mode.
Yeah, I agree being confused about how your phone works is pretty funny.
Also, while we're at it, the reason the 6+ doesn't have 8 rows in Standard view is the same reason it doesn't have 5 columns. Each icon and label is about 100 pts (compared to 90 pts on the 6), and with only about 700 points to work with after the status bar and page count, even if they had used the tighter iPhone 6 padding, going to 8 rows would run out of space (90*8=720).
So again, if split views, landscape home screen, and multi-page landscape folder views (and whatever Plus-only layouts developers come up with in the coming months) aren't important, and you want to undo the larger text of Zoom by manual override, then by all means use Zoom to get those bigger icons on the 6+. But it's a pretty bad trade for just about everyone else.
Also, while we're at it, the reason the 6+ doesn't have 8 rows in Standard view is the same reason it doesn't have 5 columns. Each icon and label is about 100 pts (compared to 90 pts on the 6), and with only about 700 points to work with after the status bar and page count, even if they had used the tighter iPhone 6 padding, going to 8 rows would run out of space (90*8=720).
So again, if split views, landscape home screen, and multi-page landscape folder views (and whatever Plus-only layouts developers come up with in the coming months) aren't important, and you want to undo the larger text of Zoom by manual override, then by all means use Zoom to get those bigger icons on the 6+. But it's a pretty bad trade for just about everyone else.
Thank you for this! I have a 6 in standard mode and now the "big app" behavior makes total sense.
One of the main reasons I wanted the 6+ was for landscape orientation. I am older than you are, but keep mine in standard for the option of the landscape/ iPad-like view