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bertramm63196564
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January 24, 2025
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Control-option keys used by MacOS to zoom

  • January 24, 2025
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In latest MacOS update, contol-option keys are now used to zoom screen if any of the zoom options are enabled.  This results in control-options keys not working to resize burshes.  How can I change the shortcut keys to reszie burshes to something else?

Correct answer bertramm63196564

I FOUND THE PROBLEM!  Go to System-Settings->Accessibility->Zoom and choose “Advanced”.  Scroll to the bottom of the very long window… you will see the following. 

 

 

The arrow indicates the setting that was set ON when I installed the latest Sequoia update.  I switched this OFF and all is working as before.

 

Thanks for all your thoughts and the time you took to reply!

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Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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January 25, 2025

If you go to Apple>System Settings>Keyboard>Keyboard Shortcus>Accessibilty>Zoom, what keys are the Zoom out and Zoom in set for?

 

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bertramm63196564Author
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January 25, 2025

Everything worked as you would expect until a few days ago... then control-option key combination started zooming without me doing anything intensionally.

And remember, all this goes away if I don't have any zoom options switched on in SystemSettings-Accessibility-Zoom

Keyboard shortcuts shown below:

 

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bertramm63196564AuthorCorrect answer
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January 25, 2025

I FOUND THE PROBLEM!  Go to System-Settings->Accessibility->Zoom and choose “Advanced”.  Scroll to the bottom of the very long window… you will see the following. 

 

 

The arrow indicates the setting that was set ON when I installed the latest Sequoia update.  I switched this OFF and all is working as before.

 

Thanks for all your thoughts and the time you took to reply!

Jeff Arola
Community Expert
Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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January 25, 2025

Are you running macOS Sequoia 15.2?

 

The Keyboard Shortcuts for zooming are not listed in Apple>System Settings>Accessibility>Zoom

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  • Zoom in: Press Option-Command-Equal Sign (=).

  • Zoom out: Press Option-Command-Minus Sign (-).

 

For zooming the screen i use Scroll gesture with modifier key to zoom.

In other words press the Control key plus use the two fingers on the trackpad the scroll in or out.

Apple>System Settings>Accessibility>Zoom

 

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bertramm63196564Author
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January 25, 2025

Yes, I am running Sequoia 15.2.  And my system worked the way you describe about until just recently.  Now, if I enable any of the Zoom features the control-zoom key combinations becomes a "jump zoom".  If I press control-option the screen jump-zooms in.  When I release it the screen jump-zooms out.  I don't want it to do this because it also disables this key combination from working  in any app (except for the jump zoom).  Because I have poor eyesight, I have enabled "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys" for as long as it has been available and then used the control key with my mouse scroll wheel to zoom in and out.  Until recently this didn't cause the control-option key combination to jump zoom.  This started around the time I did the last Sequoia update.

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bertramm63196564Author
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January 25, 2025

Sorry... anywhere you see "contorl-zoom" in my above reply, I meant "control-option"

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LAMY2017
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January 24, 2025

I'm running 15.2, bertramm. I've always used ⌘ +/- to zoom in and out.

Ps>View>Zoom In | ⌘ +

Ps>View>Zoom Out | ⌘ -

 

How does one go about using the control/option keys to zoom?

Is there a preference in Settings?

 

Tip: search Character Viewer for "place of interest." Who woulda guessed.

 

Larry
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