A display control apparatus that is capable of improving a feeling of an operation that moves a partial area cropped from an output image. A cropping unit crops an image in a partial cropping area from an output image. A scaling unit generates an unevenly scaled image by scaling the output image or the cropped image in one direction. A switching unit switches between display of an unscaled image and display of the unevenly scaled image when the cropped image is displayed on a display unit. A control unit moves the cropping area to the output image in the direction by a moving amount per a single operation for moving the cropping area in the direction when the unscaled image is displayed, and moves the cropping area in the direction by a different moving amount per the single operation when the unevenly scaled image is displayed.