# Gallery Navigation - Disable for Mobile

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095>\
**Category:** Elements\
**Created:** [December 9, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095 "2025-12-09T15:15:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![dvrooman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dvrooman/32/32954_2.png) [@dvrooman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dvrooman)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095/1 "2025-12-09T15:15:46Z")

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Hello. Brand new to Elements, so sorry if I’m missing something obvious. I’ve scoured the docs and forum, but haven’t found an answer.

Is it possible to disable the navigation elements for a Gallery’s Lightbox at the mobile breakpoints? They are taking up a large amount of the very limited screen real estate. I feel most mobile users are going to assume they can swipe left/right to view more images and either tap or swipe down to close the preview.

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**Author:** ![Fuellemann](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/fuellemann/32/22871_2.png) [@Fuellemann](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Fuellemann)\
**Post date:** [December 9, 2025, 3:54pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095/3 "2025-12-09T15:54:47Z")

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@dan Is it possible to disable the lightbox for mobile? Sorry, I do not have it in front of me at the moment.

→ Reason is that the picture size normally does not differ between whats visible on a mobile screen and the lightbox image, so it has a contrary effect (cluttering, not any larger image available)

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**Author:** ![ben](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/ben/32/28488_2.png) [@ben](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/ben)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 2:59pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095/4 "2025-12-10T14:59:10Z")

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> [@dvrooman](#):
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> Is it possible to disable the navigation elements for a Gallery’s Lightbox at the mobile breakpoints

Hi @dvrooman

I’ve gone ahead and added this feature to the Gallery, it’ll be included in the next update 🙂

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**Author:** ![dvrooman](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/dvrooman/32/32954_2.png) [@dvrooman](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/dvrooman)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2025, 3:01pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/gallery-navigation-disable-for-mobile/53095/5 "2025-12-10T15:01:14Z")

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That is amazing! Thank you so much!!!