The Touch Tracking is grayed out or not available

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Under certain conditions, the Touch Tracking function will be grayed out in the Settings menu and unavailable. Here are the conditions in which the Touch Tracking function will be unavailable:

• Touching the panel activates Spot Focus:
  • File Format is set to XAVC S 4K, and Proxy Recording is set to On in the movie mode (Except ILCE-7SM3, ILCE-1, ILCE-7M4, ILCE-9M3, ILCE-7RM5, ILCE-7CM2, ILCE-7CR, ILCE-6700, ZV-E1, ZV-E10M2, ILME-FX3, and ILME-FX30).
  • 4K Output Select is set to Memory Card+HDMI in the movie mode while outputting images via HDMI® (Memory Card+HDMI is unavailable on all models).
  • SteadyShot is set to Intelligent Active in movie mode (Intelligent Active is not available on all models).
  • Record Setting is set to 120p/100p in the movie mode (Except ILCE-7SM3, ILCE-1, ILCE-9M3, ILCE-7M4, ILCE-7RM5, ILCE-7CM2, ILCE-7CR, ILCE-6700, ZV-E1, ZV-E10M2, ILME-FX3 and ILME-FX30).
  • When Focus Mode is set to Manual Focus in the movie mode (Only for ILCE-7C, ILCE-7SM3, ILCE-1, ILCE-7M4, ZV-1, ZV-1F, ZV-1M2, and ZV-E10).

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• Touching the panel activates Touch Focus:
  • Scene Selection is set to Hand-held Twilight or Anti Motion Blur (Anti Motion Blur is unavailable on all models).
  • Subject Detection under Face/Eye AF Set. is set to Animal (Except ILCE-9, ILCE-9M2, ILCE-7SM3, ILCE-7C, ILCE-7M4, ILME-FX3, ILME-FX30, and ZV-E10).
  • Focus Mode is set to DMF (only for Cyber-shot).
  • When Focus Mode is set to Manual Focus and the monitor is double-tapped (on some cameras, the focus magnifier is only available in still image mode).

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• Touch operation is unavailable:
  • Shooting mode is set to Sweep Panorama (unavailable on all models).
  • Using the Smart Zoom, Clear Image Zoom, or Digital Zoom functions.
  • Using Smart Telecon (not available on all models).