Did Apple remove the zooming feature from the Magic Mouse in a recent OS update?

Question

Mac OS X has a 'zoom' action which can be used in various views in applications e.g. Photos.app when looking at a photo, zooming an entire Safari page, zooming in an NSScrollView.

This action is easily performed on a trackpad by using the 'pinch' gesture.

I cannot for the life of me, work out how to enable it for the Magic Mouse (when running Mac OS X 10.10 Yosemite).

The closest that I can get is in the 'Zoom' section of the 'Accessibility' pref pane. This allows you to zoom the entire screen which is not the behaviour that I'm looking for.

You used to be able to perform the zoom action using the mouse (see this video at 1:26 - https://youtu.be/UXbwOIsXNL8?t=1m26s )

So - have Apple removed this feature? Or is there a way to enable in-app zooming with the Magic Mouse?

Thanks

Answer 1

So - It appears that they did remove this feature in Yosemite.

Answer 2

Hold down cmd# while scroling then the magic mouse zooms.

Answer 3

On Sierra i found lovely hidden options!

Hold down CONTROL button to zoom the entire screen area Hold down OPTION to use a zoom tool eg photoshop

Answer 4

If my trackpad wasn't working with gestures, I'd go to Zoom In Or Out is enabled in System Preferences->Trackpad-> Scroll & Zoom. If it is, I'd make sure Pinch With Two Fingers is selected.

Try this, but click on the Mouse pane in System Preferences.

Answer 5

I have the latest updates and a Magic Mouse and mine works fine, so I guess the answer would be no.

Answer 6

Zooming with the Magic Mouse was switched to the "Smart Zoom" functionality done by double tapping on the mouse with one finger. More info on gestures here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204895

Answer 7

In Numbers app, you can zoom with option + cmd + scroll.

Answer 8

Zoom features in the Accessibility section of System Preferences always several alternative options for zooming.