Reconsider an option to disable pinch-to-zoom...

Hi there.
I know that I have created a topic like this before, but I would like to ask you to reconsider adding an option to disable pinch-to-zoom on iOS, when controlling the mouse pointer in the Remote Desktop app.
I have use Remote Desktop for iOS every day, pretty much since the day it came out, and it is far superior to any other remote app on the market in my opinion.
But I really can't stand the pinch-to-zoom feature that was suddenly added.
I use two-finger-scroll a lot, but it really annoys me that 80-90% of the time the app thinks I want to zoom instead, even though I'm very precise in planting my two fingers horizontally and dragging them straight up-and-down.
And you would think that if you are able to add a new feature you should definitely be able to add an option to disable it for those that don't want to use it.
I really hope you will reconsider adding that option, because using the other control mode where pinch-to-zoom is disabled is not really an option for me.
Thanks in advance and many greetings from Denmark.
- Bjørn

Hi,
Thanks for the feedback. I will forward your concern to the product team.
Thanks.
Jeremy Wu
TechNet Community Support

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