Blender Pivot Point and Zoom Location Stuck Exclusively on Cursor Location

Question

I have no idea why I can't change from pivoting around the cursor to pivoting around my selection in blender 2.80 or 2.81. I used to be able to pivot around the selection. In the navigation preferences I checked the box that states "orbit around selection". The navigation still orbits or pivots around the cursor location so it gets annoying when I have to select lots of different things and rotate them. I used the NumPad . key an the NumPad , key also and tried different pivot point options. It sadly makes no difference. The software is stuck on orbiting exclusively around the cursor. Can anyone help me find out what is happening? I attached an image of the navigation preferences below.

Answer 1

Press "N" to bring up a toolbox menu. Go to the "View" tab and click on the View Lock option. Then, you can lock the camera to the 3D Cursor, view or to an object.

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