It still blows my mind to think that in 2023 Squarespace does not have a method to natively allow users to "pinch to zoom" in on images for either desktop or mobile when viewing images in the "Lightbox" mode.
This ability has been ironed out over a decade ago on every other website from Craigslist to Facebook and when watching people use my website they naturally try to do this move an are dismayed when they cannot. It reflects poorly on my services when basic web moves like zooming in on an image cannot be done. What is the point of Lightbox then??
As a provider of websites for millions of people I expect Squarespace to have the basic features of the modern web experience available but they are not.
Anyways, if anyone is looking to enable this functionality I cannot recommend the plugin by Beyondspaces which I will link below.
https://www.beyondspace.studio/pinch-zoom-lightbox
I am not involved or affiliated with this plugin at all but feel the absolute need to post this because it is so frustrating to watch clients and users want to zoom in on images and not be able to and then have Squarespace not implement this feature for years.
This plugin is easy to install and does exactly what you want across every device and browser I have witnessed.
/End rant
