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What Is This Orange Border?

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Ricardo Jimenez

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Aug 1, 2015, 10:43:07 AM8/1/15
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I notice that in some apps, an unfortunate gesture will cause the font
to increase size and only show a portion of what was previously
displayed. The entire display of my tablet also gets an orange border
on the edge. Despite my frustrated efforts, I can't figure how to get
out of this mode without going back to the initial Android screen.
Please somebody explain what to do. Thanks.

John McGaw

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Aug 1, 2015, 2:47:05 PM8/1/15
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It is magnification and is triggered by some gesture or other, possibly
just tapping the screen just the right/wrong way. To get rid of it go to
settings>system>accessibility>Magnification Gestures and make sure that the
setting is 'Off'.

Whiskers

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Aug 2, 2015, 1:44:37 PM8/2/15
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Triple-tapping the screen toggles the magnification on and off for me.
This feature sometimes works even when 'zooming in' doesn't, so it has
its uses.

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Ricardo Jimenez

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Aug 2, 2015, 5:30:13 PM8/2/15
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I tried triple tapping, both with and without a stylus, and it did not
work for me so I just turned the "feature" off in settings. I
certainly didn't get the unwanted magnification originally from triple
tapping.

jopi...@gmail.com

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Feb 14, 2017, 4:22:51 AM2/14/17
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Just in last couple weeks an orange outline has started appearing around my entire page. This almost paralyzes screen and I have to exit, exit to get outline to go away. Very recent problem.

Andy Burns

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Feb 14, 2017, 4:27:12 AM2/14/17
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jopi...@gmail.com wrote:

> Just in last couple weeks an orange outline has started appearing around my entire page.

Sounds like battery saver is permanently on?

Look under Settings/Battery then the [...] menu to see if you've
accidentally turned it on, normally it just activates automatically
below a certain % of battery.

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