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Friends,
Something weird has happened recently when I'm in the photos app on my iMac running Monterey 12.7.6.
When I zoom in the hand tool doesn't work anymore. It should move around the area that you're looking at in the zoomed in photo but it doesn't anymore. What it does is it grabs a thumbnail of the picture and like you're gonna drag it off to a folder or something.
If anyone can help or has a solution greatly appreciative.
Rob
iMac 27″, macOS 12.7
Have you restarted? That often fixes crazy stuff like that. If it doesn't, try restating in Safe mode. This bypasses certain potentially disruptive processes, and it often helps. Safe Mode is different for different computers, so see this:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
Let us know how it goes…
Hand tool doesn't work in Apple Photo 7.0
