Didn't work for me (SOLVED)

[styopin]

Not working on macOS Ventura 13.1 with plugged monitor.
Open at moment: Adobe InDesign, Safari, VSC, Mail App

[danqing]

Hey! Thank you for the report. When you click on the fix button, does your screen flicker for a second? (It should as the dock process is killed.)

And do you mind running killall Dock in your terminal to see if the command works for you?

[danqing]

@styopin I added another way to fix the problem with 1.1 — get it here and lmk if that works for you!

https://github.com/danqing/Pinch/releases/download/1.1/Pinch.zip

[styopin]

Unfortunately 1.1 still not work for me.
Killall Dock can't help too.

It's so strange. Maybe the reason on the Adobe side?

[danqing]

Even if Adobe is messing up with the trackpad, the problem should be fixable on the system side I believe. Can you confirm that with 1.1, right after you click Fix Pinch Gesture, the gesture stops working for 0.5s? (This version works by turning the gesture off and on again, which is reported on Twitter as a reliable way to fix the issue.)

[styopin]

Well, I have really different algorithm of actions before this happens.
For example, right now I catch this problem, but "Fix Pinch Gesture" can't help me. Display blinking once time only. Ok.
But when I run Preview (native Mac app), try pitching (didn't help), and after that run "Fix Pinch Gesture" again — it's works!

It is blow my mind! :)

[danqing]

Oh wow that's weird! Do you have a reliable way to make pinch fail? I have Adobe apps too so if you know how to trigger the issue I can see if I can do anything!

[bucweat]

Hi,

Using Pinch 1.1 on MBP 2018 (Intel) with Ventura 13.1 and a connected screen. After installing Pinch it took a while for issue to pop up again, but it finally happened today (noticed in Safari), and Pinch did not solve the issue. The dock flashed, but pinch to zoom did not start working again. About a minute later after clicking through a couple of open apps trying pinch to zoom, it started working again. All other trackpad features still work when pinch to zoom stops...its just that feature that stops.

I did try running Pinch while pinch to zoom was working to see if feature stops while the app cycles the option, but I could not tell that it was turned off as pinch to zoom worked throughout the flashing caused by killall Dock.

I have not found any way to make pinch to zoom fail...I mostly use it in Safari and Preview, but have apps like Parallels, Apple mail, messages, discord, Microsoft Teams and Signal running. Issue seems to just randomly show up and go away. I've not found anything in Unified Logs that might indicate what is going on...

Also running Pinch multiple times when pinch to zoom is broken does not seem to help. It just comes back after some period of time that is not associated with running Pinch.

PS thank you for making app and trying to find solution...it is much appreciated. Happy to debug and try anything else you might find. If I come across any other possible solutions or indications will share them here :-)

PPS WRT Adobe I only have Acrobat Reader that I almost never use. So I doubt it is Adobe apps. I was thinking it might be terminal or Parallels...apps that "steal" the cursor...but so far not found anything definitive...

[styopin]

Bucweat, hi!

You described my situation.
Exactly the same!

[danqing]

I'm still unable to reproduce this...

Maybe you can help me by trying the version below? This version disables pinch gesture for 5 seconds before re-enabling it. Can you check if:

1. After clicking on Fix Gesture you can't pinch in the next 5 seconds, and
2. Whether this fixes anything?

(The 1.1.1 build disables the gesture for just 0.5s before re-enabling, which works for me.)

Pinch.zip

[bucweat]

Thanks :-)

Downloaded the 5 second version provided here and it DOES disable the pinch to zoom for a couple of seconds. So it could be the 1.1.1 version is not long enough to notice especially with the killall Dock happening.

Keeping the 5 second version installed...just need to wait until pinch to zoom fails again...

[SuatBabatan]

this also worked for me too

[lblive]

I take the opportunity to share my experience. Until now, I always solved this problem by disabling and re-enabling pinch gesture in System Settings. And, I have noticed that in my case this solution only works if I wait a few seconds before re-enabling the gesture. (I use Stage Manager on macOS 13.1, MacBook Air M2, and this problem occurs even when using only Apple apps)

And Pinch version 1 doesn't solve the pinch problem, but it does allow me to solve another bug! From time to time, I can't swipe with two fingers to hide a notification or delete an email for example. Pinch 1 solves the bug every time. So thanks a lot!
(I haven’t tried the other versions yet)

[lblive]

I'm lucky today, I've already been able to test version 1.1.1 and version 5s in real condition 😅 I confirm that in my case version 1.1.1 does not work, but the 5 second version seems to work well.

Thanks a lot

[danqing]

Thank you for the info @lblive! So it looks like the 0.5s delay in 1.1.1 may be too quick for some systems.

I increased it to 1s here: https://github.com/danqing/Pinch/releases/download/1.2/Pinch.zip. If you may, want to help try this version out? I'm glad that the 5s version works, but it's a bit long haha.

[styopin]

@danqing, 1.1.1 and 1.2 is works for me!

THANK YOU SO MUCH!