I'm trying to try out the new device sensor library on my friend's iPhone, but it is almost impossible because the editor keeps zooming in every time a textbox is onscreen, and when I rotate the screen, the editor squishes weirdly. Is there some setting on iOS that I can change to stop this?
My go-to solution that I used until I can think of disabling zoom is by opening the webpage menu and changing the scale back and forth every time it zooms. You could maybe make a bookmarklet but this is what I use without a bookmarklet.
I don't know if you're aware, I'm pretty sure safari on iphone doesn't let you change the zoom, and you can't run bookmarklets.
you mean safari?
Yeah, whoops.
Eh its ok just a small typo.
Yes, there is a page zoom option, found in a menu that its icon looks like a rectangle and two lines below. There is a percentage initially at 100%. That is the page zoom.
I had a bookmarklet on iOS Safari that shows the source code of a page for a year or two and it runs fine. Been through iOS versions, and it still runs. If it doesn't run, blame that oddity on Apple devices where some bookmarklets are not registered as one but some are. I got that on macOS but unsure if that is the same on iOS.
If bookmarklets don't work, you can create a shortcut on Shortcuts that run JavaScript on a website to disable zoom.
Oh, ok. I have an ipad, and the last time I tried bookmarklets, they didn't work, but that might have been because I was using brave (still safari under the hood), or that I made it on the device, and not on a mac (cause I don't have one). I was also not sure about the page zoom, cause I thought that they disabled zoom in safari.
Well, thanks for clearing that up, and I'm sorry I gave misinformation,
I'll try the bookmarklet. The main problem is that I have Snap! installed as a shortcut. Thanks!
Chromium*
On ios, except in the EU*, all browsers use safari, or more accurately webkit, under the hood, because apple decided they don't like other browser engines on their devices. Heck, even google chrome on ios is using safari.
*The EU made apple allow other browser engines, but because apple is apple, they only allowed that for people in the EU (same with proper sideloading, although that's kind of a stretch).
What the hell? I know it's Apple but I didn't expect that from them
Also, you can properly sideload on European iPhones? Interesting
I have no idea what bookmaklets are are you trying to say bookmarks and here’s a picture of what bookmarks are
Bookmarklets are scripts saved as bookmarks. When you click on the bookmark, instead of taking you to another website, it runs a script.
Oh ok I did not know what that was
That's the button I'm talking about that opens the webpage menu and includes the page zoom option!
(to see bookmarklets, simply tap on the address bar)
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