iPhone Double-tap to zoom gone?

[jknight8907]

In Chrome (and presumably Safari) it used to be possible to double-tap a block of text and the view would automatically snap to the width of the text. That no longer works in 13. Is that an option somewhere now? It’s possible to pinch to zoom but the old tap method was instant and one-handed.

 

[DDustiNN]

Still works for me (in Safari at least).

 

[cmaier]

In Chrome (and presumably Safari) it used to be possible to double-tap a block of text and the view would automatically snap to the width of the text. That no longer works in 13. Is that an option somewhere now? It’s possible to pinch to zoom but the old tap method was instant and one-handed.

Work for me in safari.

 

[Arndroid]

I have been having it work irregularly for me in 13/13.1.

I use it all the time and it is frustrating me.

 

[danmart]

I have been finding this extremely patchy, too. On iPhone 11 Pro Max running iOS 13.0.

 

[bmac89]

In iOS 11 I found that it depended on the website. Some websites it always worked while others never worked and I suspect it is due to the way the website is designed.

No doubt you have tried extensively but just in case have you tested it on websites which you know for certain worked before?

 

[danmart]

For sure. It’s worse than that! On MacRumours home page you can double-tap to room in the side bar, but not on the main column.

 

[jknight8907]

In iOS 11 I found that it depended on the website. Some websites it always worked while others never worked and I suspect it is due to the way the website is designed.

No doubt you have tried extensively but just in case have you tested it on websites which you know for certain worked before?

Yes, definitely. It does seem to affect Chrome more than Safari, though.

 

[unchecked]

Ditto. Only got it to work less than 5 times. It’s very intermittent and inconsistent.

 

[RedGT]

I thought it had gone completely, then got it to work. But only once....it was/is such a useful feature, hope it gets sorted.

 

[crjackson2134]

Wish I had found this thread earlier (Before I posted this question in another thread)

It doesn’t work at all anymore on my iPad Air 2. I thought is was just me. Hopefully it will get fixed on the next point release.

 

[!!!]

I just noticed that whenever I want to double tap a paragraph in safari to "fit" the paragraph to my screen, it no longer works. I used this all the time! Anyone else annoyed by all the features removed in iOS 13?

 

[Asclepias]

Yes double tap zoom does not work reliable anymore! This is annoying, as I was also using it all the time.

 

[revmacian]

I went to distrowatch dot com on my iPhone XR, tapped a paragraph in the middle column and it zoomed to fit the screen. It even zoomed on my iPad Air 3, even though no zoom was necessary. Distrowatch isn’t coded to be a responsive HTML site, so I’m wondering if part of this problem has to do with how each site is designed.

 

[DaBozMan]

So iOS 13.2 is now out and this is still not working.
Extremely annoying.
Can only assume the feature has either been removed or is somehow nerfed by the new gestures.

@revmacian - interesting. I tried the site you mention and it does seem to work on there.
it used to work pretty much everywhere, so again I wonder if something is getting in the way...

 

[revmacian]

So iOS 13.2 is now out and this is still not working.
Extremely annoying.
Can only assume the feature has either been removed or is somehow nerfed by the new gestures.

@revmacian - interesting. I tried the site you mention and it does seem to work on there.
it used to work pretty much everywhere, so again I wonder if something is getting in the way...

Yep, tap-to-zoom works great on Distrowatch, but it doesn’t work at all on MacRumors. I think this is because MacRumors is designed to be a responsive HTML website whereas Distrowatch is not. One of the benefits of responsive design is that tap-to-zoom shouldn’t be necessary and the responsive website will render differently according to the device being used. I don’t think it’s a problem with iOS at all. As more website are redesigned with responsive HTML code, I think we’ll see tap-to-zoom fade into the past.

 

[carlsson]

Any news on this? It hasn't worked for me for a year or so. Extremely useful feature that suddenly didn't work anymore...