Pinch to zoom in Safari not working consistently on IOS 15

As regards images or graphics in emails, or on webpages. I have also found that pinching to zoom in/out on the image/graphic causes more problems than the normal hassles with zoom.

I have found that if I carry out the ‘pinching’ on an area of the screen that does NOT have the image/graphic on it, so a bit of white space, or text, that it works more often than not.

Where I have specifically wanted to zoom on of the image or graphic, and have been totally unable to pinch to zoom, I have taken a screenshot and then looked at it in my Photos app.

I haven’t upgraded to 15.2 yet, but I’m doing that now to see if there’s any change.

Apple have had ample opportunity to look into this now and, as far as i

am aware, haven’t even acknowledged the problem, let alone fix it. Most frustrating.

Apple. Fix this issue. These phone come loaded with features and yet we have to turn or perform workarounds because your team have not co e up with a fix. I believe the scanning feature is causing this as it scans graphics and pictures for readable text.

iPhone Xs 512 GB, iOS 15.2. Same problem. If this isn’t planned obsolescence I don’t know what is. It’s the first time since the first iPhone when I’m actually considering switching to an Android based terminal.

I agree. I still have every iPhone model since it came out up to my current one which Xs Max. I don’t plan on getting any more. The prices going up and quality going down. Phone looks amazing during those dog and pony shows but in the real world application key features they praise during their review are finished with software updates. We should not have to go through all these workarounds when we pay so much money for it. I don’t mind paying top dollar for a phone but when it starts coming short to their promises and deliverables I would agree with your assessment in changing to another operating system.

This fixed it for me:

Settings -> General -> Language & Region -> Live Text (disable this feature)

Power down and restart

Not ideal but pinch and zoom working consistently is way more useful to me than live text

I came to this string with the same problem and found an answer. Today I was having a problem viewing a Tik Tok video and realized my phone's font size was at 125%. I brought it down to 100% and it fixed both the Tik Tok issue and the pinch-zoom feature. Works evrytime now. It was driving me nuts!

It’s seems that it’s like a thread prioritization problem. It’s like the phone can’t figure out you’ve made the gesture to zoom in/out because it missed some key indicatives from the digitizer values.

Also, the simpler the render is the less probable of this issue happening, suggesting the same story.

I'm noticing this happening in the Gmail app as well. It is almost as if it hesitates and then catches up (making the zoom too much when it works).

On Safari pictures when I am trying to zoom, sometimes it will not work at all until I rotate to landscape mode or do that and back to portrait.

I'm not a fan of reducing the font size (though I see it may no longer work) as the point of me having to zoom is not being able to see it clearly so a reduction in font is making it worse.

I wonder if this is an ADA issue?

Issue still present with 15.2 update on iPhone X . Mostly, I noticed the problems by zooming in mail app. 6 times repeating till it works. I hate this issue. Quality of updates is going down. If I could, I would go back to iOS14. As someone saying to disable ios15 live text is a workaround. I can say this does not work on iphoneX, it does not support live text, so it can’t be deactivated. 782 people replied here to have the issue. Apple do anything now!

Still happening for me. iPhone XS Max. Noticed it immediately after an update about three months ago. It seems to be consistently inconsistent. I find that if I slowly place my thumb and forefinger together then it somewhat reliably enters zoom mode, but as soon as the fingers aren’t touching, it’s way less reliable.

I would have said that Apple doesn’t do that before ios 15 but now I’m reconsidering. It might well be a mistake of sorts, a bug but failing to address it is very stinky indeed. It smells a lot like forced obsolescence and makes me get out of their ecosystem.

..... and here I thought I am the only one having this pinch and zoom problem on my XS Max. I checked on my friends' iphones 12 and 13 and no one else has this issue. These issues are one of the reason some people dread these iOS updates and do not update their phones regularly (or not at all), sadly.

It’s a sales tactic from Apple forcing individuals to upgrade their phones after having them for a few years. I know personal individuals and some at the work place who have encountered this tactic for years. I fell for that once. No more. I’m recommending them to get another phone that isn’t Apple this Apple did fall far away from its tree.

Turning off Live Text as someone else in this thread suggested seems to have at least made it better for me, if not solved it. They also said to restart after turning it off.

Settings > General > Language & Region > Live Text

deactivating live text fixed the issue for me.

hey Apple, try the page https://pavelmayer.de/covid/risks/ with iphone Xs and live text activated ! Its a horror to try to zoom in the big table !

please fix !!!