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Please get rid of the auto toggling pan/select

  • May 30, 2024
  • 2 replies
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Dan_Taylor1

In every iPad app I can think of with canvas navigation you pan / zoom with two fingers and select/select box with one. FigJam is the only app that doesn’t act like this.

What’s more is that after selecting, it switches back to pan. Unless I specifically keep this in mind I am constantly confused what my index finger is going to do.

Here’s what I would suggest:

Option 1 (the Affinity Designer method)

  • Pan and zoom with two fingers, select with one.
  • Select multiple by drawing a box.

Option 2 (The Apple Freeform method)

  • Select and pan with a single finger
  • Tap and hold to start a selection box

For pencil users include the option to only select with the Apple Pencil and only pan with the finger. This would make the pencil workflow extremely fast.

2 replies

djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • May 31, 2024

Thanks for the feedback, @Dan_Taylor1!

We’ll pass this onto our team for future consideration.


dan.taylor
  • New Participant
  • June 8, 2024

Whoa! Huge kudos to the team. You just pushed out a thorough update that directly addresses this. Beautiful design solutions all, I’m very impressed.