Apple’s textual content choice magnifying glass has reappeared within the iOS 15 beta, and Apple’s own site confirms its return by itemizing it as a characteristic. Bringing the characteristic again is a reversal from when Apple made the choice to dump it in iOS 13, which is a little bit of a uncommon incidence: Apple doesn’t often return after it’s accomplished away with one thing (bringing again scissor switches in its keyboards after years of butterfly switches is a notable exception). The return of the little pop-up is welcome, although: I can solely converse for myself, however since iOS 13’s launch, I’ve continuously been struggling with out the useful little magnifier.

The new model of the textual content magnifier appears to be a bit smaller than the outdated one (in case you’ve forgotten what it used to seem like, you possibly can see a great demonstration here), nevertheless it’s not less than higher than the nothing that seems in iOS 13 and 14.

It will, on the very least, clear up the most important downside with the present choice system: that your thumb is protecting the textual content you’re attempting to pick out, which makes it a little bit tough to see what’s being chosen till you choose your thumb up from the display screen. Then, in case you’re like me, you’ll in all probability sigh seeing that the improper factor is chosen, then wrestle with the textual content choice handles to attempt to spotlight what you had been truly going for (squinting on the small display screen the entire time).

iOS 15 is at present in early beta, so something we see now’s topic to vary — Apple might all the time make the magnifying glass extra outstanding primarily based on suggestions, if it looks like lots of people are nonetheless struggling. While this characteristic isn’t fairly sufficient for me to danger downloading the primary developer beta, I feel it might be what will get me to instantly seize the primary public beta when it comes out.