none of the axes interactions are working in axes embedded in a UIFigure panel

Problem: The interactions of an axes object embeded in a UIFigure panel are not working. The interactions I am trying to add to the axes are rulerPanInteraction('Dimensions','y'), panInteraction('Dimensions','y'), and zoomInteraction('Dimensions','y'). However, during troubleshooting I found that none of the other interactions are working either.

Question: Has anyone else encountered this problem when building their apps? And if so, do you know what is causing the problem and how to resolve it?

Addtional info:

• The reason I am using axes and not uiaxes in my app is because 'linkaxes' functionality is not supported for the latter; and my app has two axes whose XLim properties must be synched.
• Immediately after creating the axes, I enabled its interactivity using the 'enableDefaultInteractivity' function
• I verified that the pan and zoom interaction in the axes toolbar (when enabled) are working just fine, but they do not produce the behaviour I need
• Matlab version: R2020a - uptade 6

Any input on this matter would be highly appeciated. Thank you in advance!