Daring FireballMacOS Tip: Enable the Zoom ‘Peek’ Gesture
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/macos-zoom-gesture
https://daringfireball.net/linked/2026/04/13/macos-zoom-gesture
Seth Milliken@daringfireball “Smooth Images” might not be a great default if you’re using it to inspect UI details, but if you’re actually using Zoom as an accessibility feature to better see portions of your screen, why would you want to look at jagged images and read pixelated text?
Magnus Ahltorp@SethMilliken @daringfireball I use it constantly, with smoothing, and have used it for ages.
Most applications don't support zooming, and even if they do, like Preview, it makes e.g. navigation work differently, or I will have to restore zooming after I'm done.
Zooming in the screen is totally transparent to the application, and with today's high pixel densities, the results are amazing, especially on laptops, where screen estate is so limited.
@SethMilliken @daringfireball As late as yesterday I used it to read a PDF of a scanned book, where the book was in the corner of each page, with lots of blank space around it.
Manually zooming in each page makes navigation to the next page very awkward, and would require me to adjust the framing all the time.
Instead setting Preview to the whole page and zooming the screen makes navigation much easier.
I use the feature without thinking about it, just like zooming on a touch screen.