disable viewport zooming iOS 10 safari

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I ve update my iPhone 6 plus to iOS 10 beta version and just found that in mobile safari  you can zoom any webpages by double tapping or pinching IGNORE the user-scalable no code in the meta tag  I don t know whether it s a bug or feature  If it s considered as a feature  how do we disable viewport zooming iOS 10 safari      updated on iOS 11 12 release  iOS 11 and iOS 12 safari still DO NOT respect the user-scalable no meta tag

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The workaround that works in Mobile Safari at this time of writing, is to have the the third argument in addEventListener be { passive: false }, so the full workaround looks like this:

document.addEventListener('touchmove', function (event) {
  if (event.scale !== 1) { event.preventDefault(); }
}, { passive: false });

You may want to check if options are supported to remain backwards compatible.

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I came up with a pretty naive solution  but it seems to work  My goal was to prevent accidental double-taps to be interpreted as zoom in  while keeping pinch to zoom working for accessibility   The idea is in measuring time between the first touchstart and second touchend in a double tap and then interpreting the last touchend as click if the delay is too small  While preventing accidental zooming  this method seems to keep list scrolling unaffected  which is nice  Not sure if I haven t missed anything though   let preLastTouchStartAt   0  let lastTouchStartAt   0  const delay   500   document addEventListener  touchstart        gt      preLastTouchStartAt   lastTouchStartAt    lastTouchStartAt    new Date        document addEventListener  touchend    event    gt      const touchEndAt    new Date      if  touchEndAt - preLastTouchStartAt  lt  delay        event preventDefault        event target click              Inspired by a gist from mutewinter and Joseph s answer

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I checked all above answers in practice with my page on iOS  iPhone 6  iOS 10 0 2   but with no success  This is my working solution     window  bind  gesturestart touchmove   function event        event   event originalEvent    event      if  event scale     1             event preventDefault             document body style transform    scale 1

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As odd as it sounds  at least for Safari in iOS 10 2  double tap to zoom is magically disabled if your element or any of its ancestors have one of the following    An onClick listener - it can be a simple noop  A cursor  pointer set in CSS

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Found this simple work around which appears to prevent double click to zoom          Convert touchend events to click events to work around an IOS 10 feature which prevents        developers from using disabling double click touch zoom  which we don t want       document addEventListener  touchend   function  event            event preventDefault              event target  trigger  click           false

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this worked for me   document documentElement addEventListener  touchmove   function  event        event preventDefault       false

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I ve been able to fix this using the touch-action css property on individual elements  Try setting touch-action  manipulation  on elements that are commonly clicked on  like links or buttons

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Unintentional zooming tends to happen when    A user double taps on a component of the interface A user interacts with the viewport using two or more digits  pinch    To prevent the double tap behaviour I have found two very simple workarounds    lt button onclick  event preventDefault    gt Prevent Default lt  button gt   lt button style  touch-action  manipulation  gt Touch Action Manipulation lt  button gt    Both of these prevent Safari  iOS 10 3 2  from zooming in on the button  As you can see one is JavaScript only  the other is CSS only  Use appropriately   Here is a demo  https   codepen io lukejacksonn pen QMELXQ  I have not attempted to prevent the pinch behaviour  yet   primarily because I tend not to create multi touch interfaces for the web and secondly I have come round to the idea that perhaps all interfaces including native app UI should be  pinch to zoom -able in places  I d still design to avoid the user having to do this to make your UI accessible to them  at all costs

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As requested  I have transfered my comment to an answer so people can upvote it   This works 90  of the time for iOS 13    lt meta name  viewport  content  width device-width  initial-scale 1  maximum-scale 1  viewport-fit cover  user-scalable no  shrink-to-fit no    gt   and    lt meta name  HandheldFriendly  content  true  gt

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In my particular case  I am using Babylon js to create a 3D scene and my whole page consists of one full screen canvas  The 3D engine has its own zooming functionality but on iOS the pinch-to-zoom interferes with that  I updated the the  Joseph answer to overcome my problem  To disable it  I figured out that I need to pass the  passive  false  as an option to the event listener  The following code works for me   window addEventListener       touchmove       function event            if  event scale     1                event preventDefault                           passive  false

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In the current version of safari this is not working anymore  You have to define the second parameter as non-passive by passing  passiv false   document addEventListener  touchmove   function e     e preventDefault         passive  false

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It s possible to prevent webpage scaling in safari on iOS 10  but it s going to involve more work on your part  I guess the argument is that a degree of difficulty should stop cargo-cult devs from dropping  user-scalable no  into every viewport tag and making things needlessly difficult for vision-impaired users   Still  I would like to see Apple change their implementation so that there is a simple  meta-tag  way to disable double-tap-to-zoom  Most of the difficulties relate to that interaction   You can stop pinch-to-zoom with something like this   document addEventListener  touchmove   function  event      if  event scale     1    event preventDefault         false     Note that if any deeper targets call stopPropagation on the event  the event will not reach the document and the scaling behavior will not be prevented by this listener   Disabling double-tap-to-zoom is similar  You disable any tap on the document occurring within 300 milliseconds of the prior tap   var lastTouchEnd   0  document addEventListener  touchend   function  event      var now    new Date    getTime      if  now - lastTouchEnd  lt   300        event preventDefault          lastTouchEnd   now     false     If you don t set up your form elements right  focusing on an input will auto-zoom  and since you have mostly disabled manual zoom  it will now be almost impossible to unzoom  Make sure the input font size is    16px   If you re trying to solve this in a WKWebView in a native app  the solution given above is viable  but this is a better solution  https   stackoverflow com a 31943976 661418  And as mentioned in other answers  in iOS 10 beta 6  Apple has now provided a flag to honor the meta tag   Update May 2017  I replaced the old  check touches length on touchstart  method of disabling pinch-zoom with a simpler  check event scale on touchmove  approach  Should be more reliable for everyone

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Check for scale factor in touchove event then prevent touch event   document addEventListener  touchmove   function event        event   event originalEvent    event      if event scale  gt  1            event preventDefault             false

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I tried the previous answer about pinch-to-zoom  document documentElement addEventListener  touchstart   function  event        if  event touches length  gt  1            event preventDefault             false     however sometime the screen still zoom when the  event touches length   1 I found out the best way is using touchmove event  to avoid any finger moving on the screen  The code will be something like this   document documentElement addEventListener  touchmove   function  event        event preventDefault             false     Hope it will help

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It appears that this behavior is supposedly changed in the latest beta  which at the time of writing is beta 6   From the release notes for iOS 10 Beta 6      WKWebView now defaults to respecting user-scalable no from a viewport    Clients of WKWebView can improve accessibility and allow users to   pinch-to-zoom on all pages by setting the WKWebViewConfiguration   property ignoresViewportScaleLimits to YES    However  in my  very limited  testing  I can t yet confirm this to be the case   Edit  verified  iOS 10 Beta 6 respects user-scalable no by default for me

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We can get everything we want by injecting one style rule and by intercepting zoom events     function        if     iPad iPhone iPod  test navigator userAgent    return     document head  append        lt style gt   cursor pointer -webkit-tap-highlight-color rgba 0 0 0 0   lt  style gt           window  on  gesturestart touchmove   function  evt        if  evt originalEvent scale     1          evt originalEvent preventDefault         document body style transform    scale 1                     Disables pinch zoom     Disables double-tap zoom     Scroll is not affected     Disables tap highlight  which is triggered  on iOS  by the style rule    NOTICE  Tweak the iOS-detection to your liking  More on that here     Apologies to lukejackson and Piotr Kowalski  whose answers appear in modified form in the code above

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I spent about an hour looking for a more robust javascript option  and did not find one   It just so happens that in the past few days I ve been fiddling with hammer js  Hammer js is a library that lets you manipulate all sorts of touch events easily  and mostly failing at what I was trying to do   With that caveat  and understanding I am by no means a javascript expert  this is a solution I came up with that basically leverages hammer js to capture the pinch-zoom and double-tap events and then log and discard them   Make sure you include hammer js in your page and then try sticking this javascript in the head somewhere    x000D   x000D   lt  script type    text javascript  src  http   hammerjs github io dist hammer min js  gt   lt   script  gt  x000D   lt  script type    text javascript   gt  x000D   x000D       SPORK - block pinch-zoom to force use of tooltip zoom x000D      document  ready function     x000D   x000D         the element you want to attach to  probably a wrapper for the page x000D      var myElement   document getElementById  yourwrapperelement    x000D         create a new hammer object  setting  touchAction  ensures the user can still scroll pan x000D      var hammertime   new Hammer myElement    x000D        prevent default  false  x000D        touchAction   pan  x000D          x000D   x000D         pinch is not enabled by default in hammer x000D      hammertime get  pinch   set   x000D        enable  true x000D          x000D   x000D         name the events you want to capture  then call some function if you want and most importantly  add the preventDefault to block the normal pinch action x000D      hammertime on  pinch pinchend pinchstart doubletap   function e    x000D        console log  captured event    e type   x000D        e preventDefault    x000D         x000D        x000D   lt  script gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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This is a new feature in iOS 10   From the iOS 10 beta 1 release notes         To improve accessibility on websites in Safari  users can now pinch-to-zoom even when a website sets user-scalable no in the viewport       I expect we re going to see a JS add-on soon to disable this in some way

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