Image controls show when dragging zoomed image by small amount (feddit.uk)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by dave@feddit.uk to c/mlemapp@lemmy.ml

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Really liking the new image settings such as not showing the controls by default. But they kept appearing for me and I couldn’t work out why until just now.

Open an image, zoom in, then pan a small amount. Looks like a small drag is interpreted as a tap, and the controls alternately show / hide.

I’d happily turn the overlay off completely if that was an option; I can’t remember the last time I actually needed them—the close icon isn’t needed with the swipe to dismiss, and you can easily get to save / share by long press after closing. Since I use those so rarely, that would be better UX for me.

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[-] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Thanks for the feedback. We'll add an option to disable the controls completely in the next TestFlight 👍

https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/issues/2674

https://github.com/mlemgroup/mlem/issues/2673

[-] sjmarf@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 month ago

We've added an option to disable the controls completely in the latest TestFlight :)

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago

i just want there to be a swipe-away gesture while zooming. needs to happen when we're swiping 'forcefully' well beyond the edge of it.

[-] dave@feddit.uk 1 points 2 months ago

My preference (which I think I put in the original post) was single tap while zoomed should reset zoom. Then dismiss becomes ‘tap, swipe’ and can be almost instantaneous.

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 2 months ago

i guess double-tap does it.

[-] sqw@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 2 months ago

im also noting here that the image viewer dismissal is down/up swipe where the rest of the app wants left-edge-to-right swipe

this post was submitted on 31 Mar 2026

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