On macOS, the pinch-to-zoom out gesture on a trackpad is often not detected at first, I have to try multiple times for the gesture to be detected.
This may not be a Figma issue, it could be the OS trying to prevent accidental clicks…
Any another app I use picks up the gesture right away. Could be an Electron issue, or an issue with a custom implemented gesture handler. For what it’s worth I also don’t have “tap to click” enabled on macOS.
Hi,
After upgrading to monterey, I’m experiencing some issues with my trackpad, most noticable when working with Figma.
The trackpad’s sensitivity is not as good as it was before the Monterey update. While using Figma, the user experience became much worse. When using pinch to zoom, it became sluggish, not as responsive as before, and the animation stutters regurarly.
Is it just my macbook doing this, or is it a more whidespread problem with Monterey and trackpad usage?
M1 Macbook - verzió Monterey 12.0.1 (21A559)
Chrome - verzió: 95.0.4638.69 (Hivatalos verzió) (arm64)
i have the same problem in my MacBook Air M1 after update to Monterey
@Szarka_Balint Is this on both the web and the desktop app versions of Figma? Or are you noticing this when only using the web version (you mentioned Chrome, but let us know if it is also happening on the desktop app).
@Maique_Anderson – ^ same questions for you. You mentioned you’re on Monterey, but didn’t mention if you were using the web version or the desktop app.
Thanks 🙂
I experience these issues everywhere
I have the same issue. It seems to be the same whether I use the app or browser (chrome).
I’m also experiencing this issue. I agree that it’s most noticeable in Figma, but I’m able to recreate the issue in Safari and others apps as well which implies it’s an OS-level bug. I’ve submitted feedback to Apple (FB9796210).
I am experiencing the same issue, especially with zoom, multiple selection holding shift button and app expose actually on every app 😦
same issure here with M1pro on Monterey
I also have a problem with the trackpad, but the fact is that sometimes the ability to zoom the canvas disappears. The problem disappears over time, but repeats itself several times during the day.
I am using a desktop app on a macbook air m1
Same issue here - it seems to be a Monterey issue but this is seriously impacting when working in Figma.
This happens to me all the time and is so frustrating! I have no idea what the cause is, because it happens randomly and unpredictably.
Sometimes, going into macOS Setting → Trackpad → Pinch to Zoom → Change from enabled, to disabled, then back to enabled will fix it. Other times, I need to do a full restart to fix it.
Sometimes, opening Sketch will cause only one of the apps (Figma or Sketch) to still have pinch-to-zoom. Other times, they’ll both be able to use the trackpad normally.
Sometimes pinch-to-zoom will work in Figma, but not in a browser I have open. Sometimes, it will work in a browser, but not in Figma.
I have no clue what is causing the problems, but I’m guessing it’s a Figma-related bug because that’s the app I always have open when it happens.
I just had the same issue, it was working fine with Monterey a couple of days and now it’s not. Sometimes it works and sometimes not… It really impacts my work as I don’t use a mouse at all only external Trackpad 😦
First time this happened to me and I just realized that this is my most common gesture, making it impossible to design anything. Thanks for the tip, Joey—worked for me.
I had the same issue: Pinch to zoom wouldn’t work in Figma. I went into system preferences to check the trackpad and noticed it had little battery (10 % left). I added it to a charger, and suddenly pinch to zoom worked in Figma.
EDIT:
Problem came back later in the day 😔 I’m also on an M1 macbook air
ORIGINAL:
This is fixed for me now!! I’m not sure if it was fixed in the 32 Little Big Changes update, or if it was because I just uninstalled some stuff.
Uninstalled
LogiOptions (app from Logitech — I thought I had already uninstalled it, but it turns out Logitech has more than 1 app that it installs). I found an uninstaller in /Library/Application Support/ , ran that, and that uninstalled the app.
Adobe products except for DC — I’m planning to reinstall once I need fonts/etc, but I don’t use anything very often so mostly just wanted to uninstall it to make sure it wasn’t wasting system resources/slowing down my bootup times.
Now I’m able to have huge Figma files open AND have a huge Sketch file open, and pinch to zoom works in both! That never happened before!
Latest version of Figma (107.1) and trackpad still stops working after switching between apps. I just got a new laptop and this problem didn’t exist for me on MacOS BigSur and a non apple silicon laptop.
@anon21722796 When is this going to be fixed? This has been an issues for over a year? I love Figma, but this is such an annoyance that I am considering moving to Sketch.
Macbook M1 and also often encounter this problem lately. It appeared this problem relatively recently, maybe two or three months ago. Only the restart of Figma helps, but this is somehow not very good)
@anon21722796 Please can we get a fix for this?
ZOOM doesn’t work which means either a full restart, a quit Figma or switching off pinch to zoom and back on again, all of which aren’t guaranteed to fix the problem.
I am thinking of moving to Sketch 😦 or XD
This seems to be a more recent issue for me too — I’ve been using Figma for a long time and never had zoom stop working until these past couple weeks.
