How to Fix Vauz Being Zoomed In or Zoomed Out

You opened Vauz and it looks wrong. Everything is enormous and half the buttons have wandered off the edge of the window, or everything has shrunk to the size of an ant colony. You did not change a setting, you closed and reopened the app and it made no difference, and now you are wondering what you have broken

Nothing. Vauz is zoomed, and one keypress puts it back

The one-second fix

Vauz snaps back to its default size straight away

No luck with the keyboard?

The menu does exactly the same job

Why it happened, and why restarting did not help

Vauz has the standard zoom shortcuts every desktop app has, and they sit right next to keys you press all day:

A stray ⌘ + - while reaching for something else, a cat on the keyboard, a hand resting somewhere it should not, a shortcut you meant for a different app — any of these will do it

The part that puzzles people is what comes next. Vauz remembers the zoom level, deliberately: somebody who has zoomed in because they need larger text should not have to set it again every single morning. The same memory is what makes an accidental keypress feel permanent. Quitting Vauz will not clear it, restarting your computer will not clear it, and reinstalling would be a spectacularly heavy way to undo a keystroke

⌘ + 0 or Ctrl + 0 clears it. That is what it is for

Make sure it really is zoom

Two other things get mistaken for zoom, and neither is fixed by pressing 0

The window is the wrong size, but the text looks normal

If the text and buttons are their usual size and there is simply too much or too little window around them, that is the window, not the zoom. Drag an edge to resize it, or maximise it with the green button on macOS, the maximise button on Windows, or a double-click on the title bar

Vauz never goes smaller than 700 × 700 pixels, so if the window refuses to shrink any further, that is the floor and not a fault

Vauz opens filling the whole screen every time

That is a setting, and it is doing what you asked. Open Settings, stay on the Personalisation tab, find Open app in maximized view on startup, untick the Full Screen checkbox, and click Save

If it is the opposite that bothers you, tick the same box and Vauz will open large from now on

Vauz has taken over the entire screen with no title bar

That is true full screen rather than zoom, and it is easy to trigger by accident

If it's still not right

Common questions

Have I lost any passwords?

No. Zoom changes nothing but the size things are drawn at. Every entry in your vault is exactly as it was, and resetting the zoom neither reads nor writes any of your data

Will resetting the zoom log me out?

No. Your vault stays exactly as it was, locked or unlocked

I actually want it bigger, I just went too far

Then you do not want the reset at all. Press ⌘ + - or Ctrl + - once or twice to come back down a step at a time, and keep the size you like. How to Make Vauz Text and Buttons Bigger covers getting this comfortable rather than merely normal

Can I turn the zoom shortcuts off so this stops happening?

Not at the moment. They are the standard shortcuts across desktop apps, and they are how people who need larger text get it. If you keep triggering them by accident, tell us how it tends to happen

It comes back zoomed every time I open Vauz

That is the setting doing its job, remembering whatever it was last left at. Reset it with ⌘ + 0 or Ctrl + 0 while Vauz is open, and that becomes the size it remembers from then on

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Still zoomed?

Please contact Vauz support and include:

• Your operating system and version
• Your Vauz version
• Whether Vauz is too large or too small
• Whether your other applications look normal
• What you have already tried, and what happened when you pressed the reset shortcut
• A photo or screenshot of the window, with any passwords covered up