Image zoom no longer works

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Ever since some update, I can no longer zoom in on images on my PC to view them in a larger size temporarily. It used to work fine before. It still works on my phone.

  • I can’t find any information about this.
  • I’ve searched through the Obsidian settings and found nothing.
  • I’ve tried every possible keyboard shortcut.

Can someone please help me?

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Were you using a plugin to do it? I believe that’s not a built in feature.

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If I remember correctly, it used to be possible to enlarge an inserted image by clicking on it with the mouse arrow. Or was it a double-click? On the mobile app, you just tap on it, and the enlarged view of the image opens right away. But that wasn’t a separate plugin for this feature.

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It’s supported on mobile but as far as I know this has never been a built in feature on desktop. There is a feature request for it that’s nearly as old as Obsidian is: Zoom/enlarge images in desktop version. Have you checked your plugins?

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In addition to a possible plugin, Minimal (and probably some other themes) had an “image zoom” option, but it was incompatible with the new (Obsidian 1.12+) image resize feature so was removed in Minimal 8.2.

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Obsidian has taught me what a true love-hate relationship is. Honestly.

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I have a workaround:

Click the icon next to the image to edit it, and then ![[Image]] will appear. If I hold the mouse cursor over it while holding down the CTRL key, I can see an enlarged version of the image.

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