How to stop Safari on iPhone 16 from auto-zooming on input boxes?

Hi jsibs

welcome to this Apple (user-to-user) Community!

Re: "iPhone annoyingly zooms in on input boxes"

"How do you stop safari from zooming in on boxes where you input information?"

"I am using a company's chat feature on their website in Safari. When I hit the box to ask my question

or type a response, the box is zoomed in on and it kicks the "enter" button off screen. "

It is the person who design's the web-site and web-pages for that company who decides how things are set-up to display. (ie: The coding they have in use would be set by them.) Many times, websites are designed with a few certain browsers in mind, and they do not display well on all the other browsers in use. It is expensive to hire well-trained designers whose web-site designs work just fine on all web-browsers.

There is often information about "preferred" browsers in their "support" or "help" pages, you could check if Safari is listed, and if not, and you intend using that website often, perhaps download and install a browser (eg: like Mozilla's Firefox, if that is listed).

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Re: Is there a way for Safari to not zoom in when I type in an input box without coding language?

It may depend on how the web=page's web-designer has set things up to display, and which browsers are preferred by the website's tech. team. You can experiment with changing the text to a smaller size.

For iOS 18: Apple support's article (link below) has lots of tips.

Customize your Safari settings on iPhone - Apple Support

Eg: says:

"Change the text size for a website on Safari

Use the Page Settings button to increase or decrease the text size.

1. Go to the Safari app  on your iPhone.
2. Tap  on the left side of the search field.
3. Tap the large A to increase the font size or the small A to decrease it."

All the best :-)