Q: iOS 9 zoom bug big problem!

I hope my emotion is not taken wrong, I really want the issue raised in priority.

The biggest issue is that 3 finger double tap is treated as a single click. I noticed appear as an issue on iOS 8 in the BankSA application. I thought this was a poor application design but maybe it is a new API. Yes I am Applle's biggest fan and an Enterprise Programmer and yes this is the first time I have ever needed to complain to Apple in 29 years, I always adapt to new directions. This issue is big and if Apple choose to innovate the 3D Touch feature and don't get the accessibility right we may for the first time in Apples history end up with a disjoint patchy human user interface. Please don't forget the 4 quadrants of accessibility and what that means to good software - and what good software means to Apple. This is truly a big problem.

3 finger double tap is triggering single tap.
Causes mistaken calls and makes banking difficult.

Zoom has never been as good as it was iOS7.

I noticed the BankSA app was doing sinlge taps rather than zoom in iOS8 in a recent upgrade, this might mean it was an API in iOS8 not just iOS9 that has this issue.

Best work around is to keep tying to three finger triple tap and then zoom out. IT then resets the screen and you can try agin.

Concerned that this is note ever going to work like it did prior to iOS8 if 3D Touch is not correctly integrated with Accessability.

Accessibility has always made Apple user interfaces great to use, any comprimise will hurt a lot of users.

Zoom features breaking in early releases makes it hard for vision impaired user to be developers and early adopters of BETA releases.

Please Apple make suer you get this right, I am sure you can get a lot of early feedback on zoom changes I am always happy to give feedback.

I have iPhone 6 Plus  

i have an iPhone 6 64gb and an iPad air 2

on my iPhone i am still on iOS 8!and this is the first time that i didn't upgrade!!and now that apple doesn't sign back to iOS 8.4.1 so as to downgrade i will not upgrade to iOS 9

too bad since i have seen some feature that i like on my iPad like back to the app and split view and many more but there will be no use if i can't see anything

when i first noticed this i knew there would be an issue..and yes i have sent this as feedback and as an email to Tim Coo himself!

obviously i am not expecting an answer from him, busy man these days but i expect a fix!

HI I am so glad I have found this.discussion. I couldn't work out why this huge problem seemed to be treated with such low priority and larger national organisations were doing so little to complain.  I have all the three finger zoom problems mentioned here as do all the people, who are VI, who I support. with ipads and phones as a volunteer.

THe other equally big problems are with text messaging. The text field you type your message into is the ONLY part of the screen impossible to zoom into. The window / full screen flipping all over the place.

THe other problem is the follow focus not working in pages or word.

I Have noticed that elderly VI ipad users are giving up with their ipads because of this. Phoning Apple support and getting up the chain of managers as far as i can reveals a stunning lack of awareness on the part of Apple engineers.

GLad to find this thread and see its not only me

Go to the nearest Apple Store and explain your problems ! I just come back from there and after trying everything, they gave me a new iphone 6. The reason is that i have experienced a lot of problems with ios 9.

@edsan2015

Can you tell me what device you went in with that was having the problems?  Can you confirm that the new device you walked out with does NOT have any zooming problems?  The reason I ask, is that I can't tell if these zooming problems are affecting all devices or only a select few.  If I could confirm that it is only a small amount of devices that are being affected, then I would just trash my "affected" iPad Air and just go buy a new Air 2.  However, if it is a wide-spread iOS 9 bug, then I don't want to waste that money.

These are IOS problems. I have checked several different iphones and ipads in a store and they all pretty much have the same problems, so changing your device would noy solve anything. The apple store staff were completely unaware of these problems in IOS  that visually impaired people have,were very sympathetic but were unable to do anything. It is easy to feel helpless, but it needs as many people to post and to contact apple support

I created an account as well especially because of this problem. Ever since I updated my device to IOS 9.0.2 things have gone wrong. Before that, I used the three fingers double-tap a billion times so to speak; when I was reading through some tekst with different fonts, I even swiped left and right to decrease or increase the zoom. None of those functions is still working nowadays. Neither on both other iPads I had to chance to try it on. The only thing that is still working is to switch the zoom-button on and off if you go to the 'accessiblity' menu in settings.

With the help of Apple Support, I even tried re-installing the Original settings on my iPad which didn't help AT ALL. Although they were very symphatetic, they still didn't believe this was related to the update... Can you believe that? Their engineering team replied I did it wrong... I had to tap-release-tap-release... I don't think they understood what I wanted to say although I explained myself a Thousand times!

Anyway, sounds like buying another device won't solve the problem??? So we just have to keep our fingers crossed that any bug-fixing update will be released ASAP??? I used to adore Apple and what they did for accessiblity but now....

Positive thoughts, hey... Let's hope it'll be resolved SOON!!!

Def glad to see that I'm not the only one

I have been an iphone user in the  early days since 3gs, Few years ago I upgraded to iphone 5 and was always cautious about upgrading ios due to the unreliability of "new updates".  Even to this day my iphone 5 is on ios 5 still.  Unfortunately, my phone is dying recentlyso I had upgraded to 6s first.  After a day of using it, I hated the lag and unpractical designs of the new IOS and 3d touch function.   I noticed that although tripple tap launches zoom,  in order for you to "drag" and increase/decrease  zoom would require a strong and firm  pressure hold on the phone to change magnifications and zoom in.  For such a high end product, it failed to meet my simple requirement of straightforward zoom like in ios6/7. I decided to return the phone and saught for an older iphone 6 plus.

Although much cheaper in comparison to the 6s plus.  It still had major issues with zoom lag time and insensitivity.  The zooming in and out from left and right is very difficult to use and often does not work for me.  Triple tap is sometimes work and sometimes doesn't so it's a coin toss.

I've began searching for ways to downgrade to ios 6 or 7.  But its hard to find a phone that has/meets the criteria  to downgrade.    Iｍａｙ　ｇｏ　ａｓ　ｆａｒ　ａｓ　ｂｕｙｉｎｇ　ａｎ　ｏｌｄ　５　ａｇａｉｎ　ｊｕｓｔ　ｓｏ　Ｉcan use older ios and not have to deal with these ridiculous issues.

I've stuck with Apple not because it is cool but hands down their zoom process in ios 6/7 were smooth and an industry leader in accessibility.  If they are just as bad as an Android, then I may be better off not paying for this premium and get an android phone, since it's poorly designed anyways.

Perhaps Apple can offer an option for visually imparied people to downgrade back to ios 6 or 7 to ensure we are able to use the most basic function of zoom and carry out our  activities without the frustrations.

I just updated to IOS 9.0.2 and the first thing that I noticed was that The zoom was changed. Before, I could do a double tap with three fingers and slide up to increase the zoom level and then immediately do a double tap with three fingers and slide down to decrease the zoom level. This was great! Now since the update, I need to wait 2 full seconds before I can do a double tap with three fingers and slide up/down to increase/decrease the zoom level. It currently restricts the zooming behavior to a double tap with three fingers to zoom in, and a double tap with three fingers to zoom out. There is no immediate adjusting for different image sizes. Please fix this Apple since Im stuck and can not downgrade to fix this and depend on this accessibility for everyday use.

Hi everyone,

Just updated to IOS 9.1 and I'm happy to let you know the three-finger double tap to increase or decrease the zoom function is working again!!! Yayyy!!! No idea yet if there is anything else concerning the zoom function not working properly... We'll see! But thank you Apple for resolving this problem! You guys had me thinking that I wasn't able to perform a gesture I've been doing for years now the right way... Started doubting myself! ;-)

Sooo... seems like my iPad can stay after all! ;-)