Device preview

Device preview lets you check how your presentation fits different screens without leaving the editor. Preview a phone or tablet in portrait or landscape, or try a square or widescreen display.

Here's a slide in the landscape phone preview:

A presentation slide displayed inside a landscape phone frame in the editor's preview mode

Choose a preview size

  1. Open your presentation in the editor and click Preview in the left sidebar.
  2. Click the Preview size button (the devices icon) in the top-left corner.
  3. Choose a device or aspect ratio, then navigate through your slides to check how they look.

The Preview size menu includes Phone (9:19), Tablet (3:4), Square (1:1), Tablet – Landscape (4:3), Widescreen (16:9), and Phone – Landscape (19:9).

Preview size menu showing the available devices and aspect ratios, with Phone – Landscape selected

Choose Default to fit the preview to your current screen again. Click Resume editing (the pencil icon) to return to the editor.

Device preview changes only the viewing area. Your slide dimensions and content layout stay the same. To change the dimensions of the presentation itself, see Presentation size and aspect ratio.