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I don't know why people are terrified of zooming. Frankly, zooming to use a desktop site is better UX than 90% of mobile sites. All you have to do is ensure your text lines aren't too long, which is good practice anyway.

Maybe it's because iOS don't have a one finger zoom gesture like Android? I wonder why Apple never added that one?

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AA sibling comment mentions double tap to zoom in on a paragraph, but there's also a single finger zoom (tap and hold, then move the held finger vertically) for Maps (and by default in MapBoxGL last I checked).

Yeah, in Android that's been available for a long time in almost all apps that support zooming, not just Maps. Most critically, Chrome.

On iOS you can double tap a paragraph to zoom in on it. That’s been around as long as I can remember.

Yeah it was in the first iPhone but you can't control the amount of zoom and it often guesses wrong or just doesn't work. I pretty much gave up on using it. On Android in most apps you can double tap, hold the second tap, then swipe up and down to zoom. It's a lot more natural than it sounds and it gives you precise control over both the zoom location and zoom amount.

On iOS you can try the gesture in Maps, and then wonder why they never added it to Safari.

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