Email text size suddenly very small, uncontrolled font change

Question

Without warning, the text of incoming emails is suddenly very small.  The body of text is crowded into the left side of the screen.  And, old emails in the inbox are exhibiting the same behavior.  If you double tap the text, it resizes to fill the screen, but you shouldn't have to double tap every message to get it to read properly.  I have tried accessibility function and increased the font size, but that has not helped.  Reading email in landscape helps.   I recently turned on iCloud but then turned it off with respect to emails.  Cannot figure out why this is suddenly happening.   Help.

Answer 1

Try quitting Mail.
Go to the Home screen and double click the Home button. That will reveal the row of recently used apps at the bottom of the screen. Tap and hold on the Mail app until it wiggles and displays a minus sign. Tap the minus sign to actually quit the app. Then tap anywhere on the screen above that bottom row to return the screen to normal. Then restart the app and see if it works normally.