High magnetic field is applied with the field direction parallel to the rolling direction during annealing of a cold rolled IF steel sheet. Results of X-ray ODF analysis show that, magnetic field annealing retards the normal recrystallization texture evolution for the IF steel sheet. It is worth noting that an abnormal increase of orientation intensity at {100}< 110 > is found after magnetic annealing for 25min at 650 degrees C. When the magnetic field strength is increased from 10 Tesla to 14 Tesla, the alpha-fiber is further strengthened, especially the {100}< 110 > component. Combined with EBSD analysis results, it is considered that the magnetic field does not change the mechanism of recrystallization texture evolution for the IF steel sheet in the present case.