Devices Change Touchpad Zoom Speed in Windows 11

This tutorial will show you how to change touchpad zoom speed for your account in Windows 11.

Starting with Windows 11 build 26300.8376 (Experimental), Microsoft is adding new gesturing-related functionality to precision touchpads in Settings. The new features should be widely available across applications, with the exception that WinUI3-based UI requires new WinAppSDK versions for complete functionality - Microsoft is in the process of bringing the necessary changes to versions 1.8 and 2.0.

If your Windows 11 device (ex: laptop) has a built-in precision touchpad, you can adjust the touchpad zoom speed to be faster or slower.

This touchpad zoom speed setting will be grayed out and disabled if pinch to zoom is turned off.

1 Open Settings (Win+I).

2 Click/tap on Bluetooth & devices on the left side, and click/tap on Touchpad on the right side. (see screenshot below)



3 Under Gestures & interaction, click/tap on Scroll & zoom to expand it open. (see screenshot below step 4)

4 Adjust the Zoom speed slider left (less) or right (more) for the 0 to 10 speed you want. (see screenshot below)

5 is the default zoom speed.

You can hover the pointer over the slider to see the current zoom speed.

5 You can now close Settings if you like.





1 Open Registry Editor (regedit.exe).

2 Navigate to the key below in the left pane of Registry Editor. (see screenshot below step 3)


3 In the right pane of PrecisionTouchPad, double click/tap on the ZoomSensitivity DWORD to modify it. (see screenshot below)


4 Select (dot) Decimal, type a number between 0 (slower) to 100 (faster) for the zoom speed you want, and click/tap on OK. (see screenshot below)

50 is the default value.

5 Close Registry Editor.

6 Restart the computer to apply.


That's it,
Shawn Brink