How are you zooming? If you’re using a “spread” gesture on the live view pane, then what if you did a double-tap instead? You can also grab the bar below the pane and drag that down to essentially do the same thing. This is a fixed zoom so that the height of the image snaps to the height of your phone screen and you can pan the view (not the camera itself) left and right while zoomed in this way without actually changing the camera’s position, but this is only for portrait mode.
Landscape view works differently, and playing with this just now I see what you mean about how using “pinch” and “spread” gestures can inadvertently trigger one of the green bars at the image edge and cause the camera to move. That really is a little annoying. Being extra careful with the gestures might help, but I was able to trigger camera movement when I didn’t intend to despite that. I could see the case for a toggle, maybe something like Settings ➜ Advanced Settings ➜ Motor Controls ➜ Enable Swipe-to-Pan/Tilt .
The appropriate Wishlist category seems to be this one:
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