Marco Arment

Yeah, Display Zoom was a feature where you could basically make your phone have the display layout

of the next size phone down from it.

So when the 6 came out, you could simulate the look of the iPhone 5 screen or something like that, whichever one introduced it.

You can increase the font size regularly in accessibility, but that doesn't increase the size of everything.

It increases the size of text.

text in many but not all places but I was having trouble like seeing the keyboard very well and stuff so I'm like let me just and like I was trying to like type emoji in certain text fields and I'm like and that was hard to do even with the bigger text size so display zoom was actually better and this by the way I still go back to the Apple watch

I still wish they would add display zoom to the larger sizes of the Apple Watch because the font size accessibility on the Apple Watch is terrible compared to the phone.

It has the same dynamic type APIs.

But way fewer things use it on the watch compared to the phone.

So if you need a bigger than usual tech size on the Apple Watch, you're mostly out of luck.

It doesn't do a very good job of it.

Again, you can see it in some places, but not nearly as many as you would want, especially like the watch faces themselves.

No luck.

And so what I really think would be a very good accessibility option for the Apple Watch is if you have either of the two large screen models, the Ultra or the 40, whatever it is, 47 now, whatever that is.

If you have either of those, DisplayZoom could render the interface of the smaller, the 42 or 41, whatever.

It could render that interface size and blow it up to the bigger screen size.

that would be a great accessibility feature on the Apple watch larger sizes and why they haven't done it yet.

Honestly is baffling.

Cause again, Apple usually is very good with accessibility options, especially visual and text size options are usually very good at that.

And the Apple watch is just a giant black hole of Texas accessibility where it's just terrible.