Prevent user from zooming has disappeared?

mccjon · April 18, 2018, 8:58pm

Hi Bubblers,

In the Settings>General tab, there used to be an option to ‘Prevent User from Zooming’. It is no longer there.

Anyone know what happened and how to get it back? I really don’t want users to be able to zoom.

Thanks!

neerja · April 18, 2018, 9:37pm

We deprecated that since it looks like Apple does not support disabling zoom in Safari anymore.

mattmazzega · April 19, 2018, 3:48pm

Any work around about this ? it’s quite important for me to prevent zooming especially in mobile webapp…

mccjon · April 28, 2018, 11:43am

And all the non-Apple users in the world?

supernaturally · April 29, 2018, 2:03am

This can be done in any wrapper or service (cordova builds, gonative, etc.). Plenty of articles on stackoverflow on modifying via Xcode. Did anyone try that route?

jonkirchman · February 5, 2019, 11:25pm

Hey, I have the same issue. Did you figure out a workaround?

mccjon · February 16, 2019, 5:36pm

Hi John,

No, not really. Just set my page size to 370 and that’s as close as I can get. Really annoying that they did that.

malife · February 16, 2019, 9:19pm

I am using two things to avoid letting the user zoom in:

Do not set any font size less than 18
On the Page HTML Header section of the mobile page I have the following code:

<meta name="viewport" content="viewport-fit=cover, width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1, user-scalable=no">

So far, even on iOS 12, my application is not “zoomable”. This also works on Android using Chrome as browser.

gilles · February 16, 2019, 9:58pm

Hi. Use copilot’s wrapper (@copilot) with their mobile deployment services and set your input fonts to at least 16 font. You’ll have have a native feeling mobile app that will not zoom in.