changing font size on Iphone photo text markups

I've just realized that one can imprint text captions on iPhone photos! Really neat. But when you go into "markup" on the iPhone photo app, and you select the font and font size, the font size defaults to 60, which is kind of big. Now, you'd like to just hold down the "-" key to make the font size smaller, but that doesn't work. You have to do it by individual taps on that key -- 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, ... etc. etc. A real PIA. Is there some way to change the markup font size more quickly? And, is there some way to change the default size?

iPhone SE, iOS 26

Posted on Oct 26, 2025 3:36 PM

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Oct 26, 2025 6:02 PM in response to Dannymac22

Dannymac22 wrote:

That's why I'm here. Because I was wondering if I was missing something, and thought I would ask other users. I know you aren't Apple, and I know you didn't design how anything works in iOS. But I thought you might have wisdom to offer. As you might notice, I already did make the suggestion to Apple. The wisdom that was offered is that, no, I'm not missing anything. Thank you.

Much nicer response than the one which was just removed! And you are correct. You're not missing anything and it's working exactly as Apple designed it to work. It's good you provided feedback to Apple. Whether they will change anything is questionable. For Apple to see this as a change needed, it takes a LOT of people telling Apple they'd like such a change. Since I'm here on this forum every day, you are, I believe, the first person to suggest how it works is problematic. But you never know.


Take care and stay well.

Oct 26, 2025 5:55 PM in response to lobsterghost1

That's why I'm here. Because I was wondering if I was missing something, and thought I would ask other users. I know you aren't Apple, and I know you didn't design how anything works in iOS. But I thought you might have wisdom to offer. As you might notice, I already did make the suggestion to Apple. The wisdom that was offered is that, no, I'm not missing anything. Thank you.

Oct 26, 2025 5:24 PM in response to Dannymac22

Dannymac22 wrote:

That's my point. It takes LOT of taps to get where you want. If they made it so you just held down the key to rapidly change size, it would be SO much easier.

I get that this is your point. My point is it's how you change the font size. This is a user to user only forum. We aren't Apple and we didn't design how anything works in iOS. If you aren't happy with how it works and honestly I do use Markup and don't find it difficult to change the font size), then by all means use the link Kurtosis12 provided and share your thoughts with Apple.

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