Pinch zoom on MacBook Pro unreliable with macOS Ventura

Lasse13 wrote:

• Hey there :)

Still have the issue with the pinch zoom that randomly doesn't work.

From the previous thread "Pinch zoom on MacBook Pro unreliable with macOS Monterey", I have gathered some ideas and maybe seen a connection to a greater issue with the recent OS versions.

So far what didn't help was:

stopping the "dock" in the activity monitor

• turning the pinch zoom switch in the system settings on/off

• turning the tap to click switch in the system settings on/off

One person wrote, that he could see the pinch zoom work on a different window behind the his active window within the same programm. Could that be the actual issue? I also experienced that depending on the program I'm using (firefox, adobe, sometimes even finder) "command+<" for changing tabs/active windows doesn't work properly or at least as unreliable as the pinch zoom.

Might it be that not the pinch zoom or the trackpad is the issue but the window management of the OS or at least certain software when working with the OS?

Hope this helps to look further into the still ongoing issue of this (pain in the a**) malfunctioning workflow.

MacBook Air, macOS 13.0

Can you verify your have applied all software updates...(?)

The current stable release of Ventura including bug fixes, security updates is macOS Ventura 13.1

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I'm having the same issue on my macbook pro m1 16. It's super frustrating and breaks up my workflow a lot. I do a lot of graphic design and I'm constantly zooming in and out for my work. Really need this fixed ASAP, please, please.

I've tried turning pinch-zoom off and on and in the settings, and I've also tried putting macbook to sleep for a few seconds. Neither method works.

I read this somewhere else and this works SOMETIMES, not all the time - putting both index fingers in the middle of the trackpad and slowly spreading them - sometimes this resets it and the pinch-zoom functionality works, and sometimes it doesn't.

Please, please fix. Thank you.