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Figma Desktop App on macOS:

Shortcut for Zoom-Out does not work correctly


Somehow the shortcut to change the mouse into a zoom-out tool doesn’t work as expected anymore. For years, this important shortcut (exactly like in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign) always was:


Zoom+ or zooming in: Space+Command plus mouse click

Zoom- or zooming out: Space+Command+Option plus mouse click


To be more precise, the current situation is as follows:

If you press Space+Command+Option, the mouse pointer turns into the zoom icon just for a very short moment, but does not stay that way. This means that you cannot zoom out as usual using a combination of shortcut and click.

It feels like a bug and I hope that this will be fixed soon.


Anybody else experiencing this faulty behaviour?

Use ‘Z’ and ‘Z + Option’ keys.


using ‘Z’ is no option cause on european keyboards Z and Y are switched


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