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Two-finger pinch zoom stops working

I and others have posted about this multiple times over the past few months. Two-finger pinch zoom stops working intermittently. Yes - I have it set properly in System Preferences, and this started after two or three upgrades ago. It fails across all apps and platforms were zoom used to be reliable. The feature stops working without warning, and works again after a few minutes. And, No, I do not want to have to restart my system every time as a work-around; this is a time-waster. I have just upgraded to Monterey 12.3, and the problem still persists. Does Apple even care?


  • Bro

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.3

Posted on Mar 21, 2022 9:56 AM

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Posted on Mar 24, 2022 1:28 PM

Hi There, Leroy. I've already tried the system preferences options - starting, changing, resetting, etc. I've been dealing with this for more than a year now, but thank you for your reply. This is obviously a bug.

~ Bro

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Mar 24, 2022 9:46 AM in response to Broman5

Broman5 wrote:

• I and others have posted about this multiple times over the past few months. Two-finger pinch zoom stops working intermittently. Yes - I have it set properly in System Preferences, and this started after two or three upgrades ago. It fails across all apps and platforms were zoom used to be reliable. The feature stops working without warning, and works again after a few minutes. And, No, I do not want to have to restart my system every time as a work-around; this is a time-waster. I have just upgraded to Monterey 12.3, and the problem still persists. Does Apple even care?

Bro


Make some change to your preferences, then return to your preferred settings


>System Preferences>Trackpad


How to use the Force Touch trackpad - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204352


Use Multi-Touch gestures on your Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895


Change Mouse & Trackpad preferences for accessibility on Mac

Change Mouse & Trackpad preferences for accessibility on Mac - Apple Support


Change how your trackpad works with Mac - Apple Support

https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/change-the-way-your-trackpad-works-mchlp1226/mac


Turn on "three finger drag" for your Force Touch trackpad - Apple Support

Turn on three finger drag for your Mac trackpad - Apple Support




Two-finger pinch zoom stops working

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