Artboard Rotation while using touchpad for zoom in Illustrator 25.3

[Amir Mahdi Moslehi]

Hi, recently I faced a new problem. When I use the trackpad for zoom-in/out the artboard keeps rotating. I don't know how can I fix this problem.

[josh.creative]

...i can't work like this

[mike.deraco]

those are great reset tricks but yes I have been dealing with the same issue. If you are on a mac you can create a keyboard shortcut key too but Adobe needs to have a setting to turn that off.

[MarkGould]

On my 2017 iMac with OS Big Sur with an Apple trackpad, when trying to zoom in and out there seems to be a problem identify between zooming/pinching and turning/rotating - while zooming at times it will go into rotation mode for a half-second and then will continue zooming in or out. But then I am unable to reimplement the rotate gesture with the trackpad - the result being that I can't presently use the canvas rotation feature at all. Can this be isolated to my system? - Mark

[defaultktnh6vtgp6mi]

A new feature seems to have hit Illustrator, where you can turn the artboards with the 2-finger-turn on the trackpad of your laptop... but for the life of me I cannot get the artboards returned back to be vertically straight again. Can someone help me with this? there must be a drop-down menu for resettting the angle of the artboards in the sdropdown menu that I'm missing...?

[Monika Gause]

That menu is in the status bar at the bottom left of the document window.

[Doug A Roberts]

Or View > Reset Rotate View

[Damon James5E61]

How do I disable rotate view? It is a nightmare on a macbook

[Doug A Roberts]

As long as you don't use it for anything else, you can disable the gesture in your system trackpad prefs. There isn't a way within Illustrator. The screenshot is from High Sierra, yours may differ somewhat:

[plshelpmelol]

Is there a way to turn off the rotate view tool? I updated recently and I use my trackpad a lot and it's flimsy and rotates the entire rotation view, which is annoying to constantly reset. If there isn't a way, I think it'd be convenient to be able to turn this feature on/off when we want.

[Doug A Roberts]

As long as you don't use it for anything else, you can disable the gesture in your system trackpad prefs. There isn't a way within Illustrator. The screenshot is from High Sierra, yours may differ somewhat:

[ADRIAN5CCC]

Rotate view should be optional. With a key command.

It can be very useful, but only quite seldom.

Having it active all the time is extremely frustrating.

Disabling the computer by removing the rotation gesture is not a good solution at all.

[Mike Bro]

Hello,

you can setup your own keyboard shorcuts for Rotate view

Regards,

Mike

[ADRIAN5CCC]

Thanks, Mike. That helps.

I have a lot of work with triangular symmetry, so rotations at multples of 60 degrees help.

I'll use the keys though to come back to 0.

A lot of rotations are unwanted, accidental when the dragging fingers move a bit off.

[goldrecordman]

I just had to create a post for this because it's been driving me crazy. I use my Macbook Pro touch/trackpad almost exclusively when zooming in and out and it used to be no problem at all. Now, almost EVERY SINGLE TIME it will try to rotate the artboard instead of zooming. 

If it happened once or twice a session, no big deal I guess, just a mild aggrevation. This happens a couple of times A MINUTE when I'm working at my normal pace and it's extremely frustrating. 

No, I don't want to turn rotation off for my entire computer using the two-finger gesture because all my other applications don't have trouble distinguishing the pinch motions from the rotation motions. I want to be able to lock the orientation of the artboard so that it just won't rotate unless I unlock it. Or at least be able to tell Illustrator that I only want the artboard to rotate if I go to the Hand tool and specifically use the artboard rotation tool.

Please make it a priority to try and patch this soon because it's frustrating when it happens SO FREQUENTLY.

[Doug A Roberts]

There is a uservoice post on the issue, marked 'Under Review' by staff. I suggest you vote and comment there:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/43637925-canvas...

[Ryan5C87]

Hi there Adobe and fellow Adobe users,

I would like to recommend an idea to introduce a Rotate View Lock. As this new feature was introduced, I realized how I never needed it before and how frustrating it is that it gets accidentally activated every time I zoom in on trackpad (which I do most of my work on). This feature is quite annoying for me already, I'm not sure about everyone else's opinion, but I'd love to deactivate it.

[Doug A Roberts]

Staff appear to be aware; please vote on this topic and hopefully something will be implemented in the next few updates:

https://illustrator.uservoice.com/forums/601447-illustrator-desktop-bugs/suggestions/43637925-canvas...

[Simmer1]

Hi,

You can request new features here: https://www.adobe.com/products/wishform.html 

Thanks,

Sim

[Francisco GyG]

Hi guys,
How can I turn off, Rotate View?

[Doug A Roberts]

In what way is it activating that you don't want? Via trackpad gestures?

[Francisco GyG]

Exactly!

[Doug A Roberts]

The only way at the moment is to disable the rotate gesture in your system preferences.

[Francisco GyG]

Thanks Doug!

[fanbrahms]

hello everyone-

This might be easily solved, but as I could not find solution on YouTube, or anywhere else - please aid me in this. 

When zooming out, sometimes this happens - and I simply can't reverse it..

[pixxxelschubser]

Try to double click the Rotate View Tool (in a "tool group" with the Hand tool)