Macbook Air Zoom-in Feature

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Macbook Air Zoom-in Feature

The IT department of my organisation suddenly turned off the zoom-in feature of my Macbook Air. I have tried everything. I went under accessibility to zoom and found that everything was turned on except 'hover text'. The modifier scroll is set to control. But I still couldn't zoom-in, even after restarting and updating multiple times.

Now, I don't know if these two things co-relate but when I am scrolling in a website, sometimes my mac screen just gets super zoomed-in. And I don't mean the website. Like my dock will be taking up 1/7 of the screen and would get cut off towards the right. Upon restarting it gets set back to normal, BUT THIS HAS HAPPENED FOR THE 7TH TIME.

Please help me. The IT won't. Apparently this is needed for their software to run, but literally never in my 2 years has this ever been needed and their software has not been updated or changed at any point in time while I was here. BUT THIS NO ZOOM-IN IS SUCH A PAIN IN THE A**.

MacBook Air 13″, macOS 14.2

Posted on Jan 26, 2024 8:54 PM

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Jan 26, 2024 10:33 PM in response to rowan_foxx

There are many ways to zoom in on a page.

The command plus buttons zoom in. The command minus buttons zoom out.

Moving fingers apart on the touch pad zooms in Squeezing fingers together on the touch pad zooms out.

Sometimes there will be applications that have their own plus and minus control buttons on the screen like Apple maps.

Are you having trouble with all these zoom options on your Mac?

Hard to believe the IT department turned off zoom controls but I guess it is possible.

It sounds like you are having trouble with zooming in when you don't want it while scrolling using the touch pad.

I think this has to do with the track pad settings and the smartzoom feature using two finger taps. Turn it off and see if that helps.

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Macbook Air Zoom-in Feature

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