# Disable zoom on mobile PWA

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541
**Category:** Feature
**Created:** [July 30, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541 "2022-07-30T20:11:57Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![alanost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alanost/32/230952_2.png) [@alanost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alanost)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2022, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541/1 "2022-07-30T20:11:57Z")

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I come with a suggestion. I think a checkbox in the settings that prevents zooming in and out on the mobile PWA (= Shortcut on home screen or app bundled with [pwabuilder.com](http://pwabuilder.com) in my definition) of a discourse page would be very useful. I have demonstrated it in the video

```plaintext
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" />

```

> <https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11689353/disable-pinch-zoom-on-mobile-web/11689448#11689448>

If you put these lines in the header in the theme you can’t zoom in and out in the mobile PWA (in Safari I can still do it and it’s okay that way). I just think that a mobile PWA should behave like an app. And maybe Discourse should bring this feature right along in the form of an optional setting.

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### Author: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 12:37am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541/2 "2022-08-04T00:37:53Z")

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We tried this in the past and people got quite upset about it.

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### Author: ![alanost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/alanost/32/230952_2.png) [@alanost](https://meta.discourse.org/u/alanost)
#### Post date: [August 4, 2022, 6:20am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541/3 "2022-08-04T06:20:57Z")

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@sam Make it an option 👍

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### Author: ![Israel\_G](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/israel_g/32/493132_2.png) [@Israel\_G](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Israel_G)
#### Post date: [March 10, 2025, 1:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/disable-zoom-on-mobile-pwa/234541/4 "2025-03-10T13:31:12Z")

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Found this today.  
I think the proper orientation is to give option to modify this on the mobile projects (as i download and edit the android source code, for example) too.

And yes, you’re right, Apple ignores this property (in the UK is mandatory by law to enable this pinch-zoom functionality, for example).