The way you enlarge a hard-to-read website in Safari has moved. In iOS 27 the large A and small A controls sit behind a Page Zoom item, one tap deeper than before, and Apple’s guide now files them under the heading “Make the content larger or smaller for a website”.
Nothing was taken away. The control is in a different place, and it has a name it did not have in iOS 26, where Apple’s guide called the same section “Change the text size for a website” and put the A controls directly in the menu.
How to zoom a website in Safari
Apple’s steps, in its own wording:
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- Go to the Safari app on your iPhone.
- Tap the Page Menu button on the left side of the search field, then tap Page Zoom.
- “Tap the large A to increase the font size or the small A to decrease it.”
Apple adds one detail that doubles as your way back to normal: “An indicator briefly appears when the font size defaults to 100%.” Step the size back down and you will see that indicator flash when you land on the default. Apple does not document a separate reset command, and it does not say whether a zoom level is remembered the next time you open the site, so 100% is the target to aim for rather than a button to press.
Apple is also inconsistent about what the control does. The section intro says “use the Page Menu button to zoom in or out on a webpage”, while the step itself talks about increasing and decreasing the font size. Both lines are Apple’s, and the company has not reconciled them.
Finding the button itself
Apple calls it the Page Menu button, and prints it as an icon rather than a word in the steps themselves, so go by position: the left end of the search field, the bar you type addresses into. That one menu holds Page Zoom, Customize Menu, Hide Toolbar, Show Reader, Request Desktop Website and, on an Apple Intelligence iPhone, Summarize.
Rebuild that menu with Customize Menu
The same menu can be edited, and in iOS 27 the item that does it is called Customize Menu. Apple’s steps:
- Go to the Safari app on your iPhone.
- Tap the Page Menu button on the left side of the search field, then tap Customize Menu.
- Tap the add button to put Page or Tab Actions into the Page menu, or the remove button to take one out.
- Tap Done, then tap Done again.
Editing the Page menu is not itself new. The iOS 26 guide had the same section, but it buried the editor two taps deeper: the Page Menu button, then the More button, then Edit. In iOS 27 the entry sits in the menu under a name you can read. Apple does not publish the list of Page and Tab Actions available to add, so the only way to see your options is to open the editor.
The other controls in the menu
Worth knowing while you are in there, in Apple’s words:
- “Hide the search field: Tap Hide Toolbar (tap the bottom of the screen to get it back).”
- “See a streamlined view of the webpage: Tap Show Reader (if available).” To go back, open the menu again and tap Hide Reader.
- “See what the webpage looks like on a desktop computer: Tap Request Desktop Website (if available).”
- “See a summary of the webpage (requires Apple Intelligence): Tap Summarize.”
Only the last one has a hardware requirement. Apple’s note reads: “Apple Intelligence on iOS 27 or later is available on an Apple Intelligence-enabled iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, or iPhone 16 model or later.” Page Zoom and Customize Menu carry no such condition, so they work anywhere iOS 27 runs, which is iPhone 11 and later plus iPhone SE (2nd generation) and later.
If you want it bigger everywhere
Page Zoom is a per-page control. For a setting that applies to Safari as a whole, Apple points at Accessibility: “Go to the Settings app, tap Accessibility, then tap Per-App Settings. Tap Safari to adjust settings. If Safari isn’t listed, tap Add App, then tap Safari to add it.” That is where to go if the real problem is that every site is too small, rather than one stubborn one.
Safari picked up more than this in the September 14 release. Our iOS 27 release rundown lists what else changed, and the event recap has the announcements behind it.
