mac desktop icon

Thank you again for your response. I think I found a solution:

In the keyboard shortcuts menu, in Mission Control, I assigned ⌘- to Mission Control and ⌘+ to Show Notification Center. Now the shortcut defaults to these menus rather than changing icon size.

Funny that this is a hidden shortcut- who is changing the size of their icons often enough to need this??

⌘+ and ⌘- aren't listed in any of the keyboard shortcut menus.

I just tried setting ⌘+ and ⌘- as shortcuts for other, less disruptive things, like "Open selected file in TextEdit." However, with this shortcut enabled and disabled, it still changes the size of desktop icons when the desktop is selected.

thanks for the response- iMac retina 5k late 2015, OS Catalina 10.15.7.

I don't think it's related to the zoom function- it's not zooming in on the screen, it's changing the size of the desktop icons.

(For context, ⌘+ and ⌘- are the zoom shortcuts for photoshop. I'll often use them not knowing the desktop is selected rather than the photoshop document.)

thank you