moronic designer

I came here specifically to find out how to do this. What took a couple of seconds to do in Photoshop took me ages (at least it felt that way) to do in Affinity Photo and I didn’t really achieve what I wanted. So frustrating…

Yep. I've basically stopped recommending Affinity Photo to everyone. Early on I could overlook obvious clunky workflow problems as first generation growing pains. The Affinity software seemed promising, but with over six years of fairly regular updates the first gen excuse doesn't hold up anymore. The fact that they are still missing basic features present in all other Photo editors just tells me they are making a "my way or the highway" type of statement without regard to efficient workflows. Maybe they'll change their mind at some point, but until then I'm relegating them to a niche player like Luminar. Nice, interesting features, but too many quirks and shortcomings.

So basically, are you just renaming the Crop tool 
 
 
So, make a pixel selection, then use that to define the Crop tool area ? Yes, that would probably please everybody. 
 
Are you listening Serif ?

The problem is just that this doesn't work in macros and is destructive... So I would still very much appreciate a "Crop to Selection" function.

Such self-important arrogance. If this is the kind abusive, do-it-our-way-or-sod-off response people can expect when they come here for help, maybe I should stop recommending Affinity software.

I can't recommend Affinity Photo to anyone until this is added, sorry. I just bought the software and it's the very first thing I needed to do.

yeah, "limit initial zoom to a maximum of 100%" option should be applicable to any situation that the image is zoomed.

I posted this almost a year ago and still nothing has changed. Even so, I am glad that people are still finding this post. It's the one feature in Affinity that I really, really don't like.