If your touchpad supports multi-finger taps, middle-click by tapping with three fingers at once. When tapping or dragging with multiple fingers, make sure your fingers are spread far enough apart. When this is selected, tapping and dragging with one finger will work as normal, but if you drag two fingers across any part of the touchpad, it will scroll instead.
Move your fingers between the top and bottom of your touchpad to scroll up and down, or move your fingers across the touchpad to scroll sideways. Be careful to space your fingers a bit apart. If your fingers are too close together, they just look like one big finger to your touchpad. In the Touchpad section, make sure that the Touchpad switch is set to on. Got a comment? Spotted an error? Found the instructions unclear? Send feedback about this page. Go to page content Go to main menu Go to the search field. About Users Administrators Developers.
Click, drag, or scroll with the touchpad. Tap to click. You can tap your touchpad to click instead of using a button.
How to repair not clicking MacBook Pro trackpad
To click, tap on the touchpad. To double-click, tap twice. Two finger scroll. Maybe some of You have similar problems. Check out your blutooth devices. Have a good day :. In the end I gave the edging small shelf in which the trackpad sits a good clean of all the bits that had built up over the years and then when I put the trackpad back in it then worked fine. I had to play with the work scew a little to get it perfect. Thank you! I had tried everything and was on to checking the trackpad settings, although was not able to arrow down into those sys pref menus to change anything.
It dawned on me to use Siri! I have never found a use for her before! Saw the culprit. It was piled on a desk across the room but here it was showing as connected. And she did. And immediately I can click again. Thanks to you! I feel a little bit smarter now.
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Aside from the planned obsolescence that is almost non existent in the PC world, your old pu will just run slower, maybe Apple is releasing too many versions too fast. None of these options worked for me. Any other options to get past the login so I can get the the Apple menu to check my trackpad status?
Mouse in the drawer!!! With something pressing on the button. You saved me a trip to the repair shop.
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Thanks to the comments in this post… I was starting to think that my Mac was going bonkers. Turns out that my Anywhere 2S mouse in my bag was on and on the same channel as my Master MX on my desk. After turning the Anywhere mouse off in bag, I have control of my left click again. Thanks for this article.
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Ok so my I could not close out but the arrow was tracking still. I simply place 4 fingers on the pad and swiped left which took me to a quick launch screen. I then clicked on the plus sign in lower left corner once which took me to a secondary screen then clicked on the plus in lower left again. Once back to the original screen I swiped right. This brought me back to my main page and the click button then worked again for me. Hope this helps. I think it is perfectly ridiculous to Reboot, close the lid and then re-start after a wait…. However, it worked…. Also, the only way I was able to get around he clicking problem was with the Bluetooth mouse.
Have brand new Mac pro with the touch bar. Left click stopped working entirely. Tried restarting alone, but nothing.
I cant do anything all I can do is use three fingers and make the screen move in and out. You will lose any unsaved data. Probably a good plan to check your bluetooth settings upon restart if that is possible. Thanks for the post! It was an external mouse being pushed down. I never would have thought of it. Willy Pott! Thanks so much for the tip!
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I tried to restart and let it sleep for a few mins, failed…Funny thing was that i finally decided to do nothing except only shutting down the mac and turning on next morning. Finally, it worked again! The trackpad did again react to the mechanic clicks after resting for a day. Hopefully some of u will find it helpful to address the issue.
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Hi had a similar problem. No left mouse click even when using an external keyboard. I tried different thing without success then I connected to an external display not sure this helped and managed to go into the mouse settings. Without really changing anything from there, everything went back to normal. Hard reboot followed by closing lid to sleep my MacBook Pro worked! This was a life saver. I was reading through the comments and I came across one that said they had a Bluetooth mouse that somehow got turned on.
At first I thought it silly and unlikely that it was my issue. Low and behold I found the stupid mouse and problem solved.
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Thank You Willy Pott!! Thanks fir the suggestion of using the arrows and return to log on. Worked fir me putting the mac to sleep. My click is back , thank you. My trackpad still clicked, but it was very difficult to do so. It is old, and probably has a swollen battery, but I want to nurse it along without paying for repairs as long as possible.
I can now easily navigate, and hopefully it will last a little longer, thanks! Happens to me all the time. I leave the plug out for about 15min. Plug back in and, after a normal restart, everything works as normal. I found a solution without restarting. In my case the bluetooth connection to my trackpad was messed up and I could only right click.
Right click on the apple logo, right click on system preferences, start typing Bluetooth and then key down to the Bluetooth preferences screen and press enter. Thanks for posting. I traced it down to a bluetooth mouse that somehow connected to my mac without my knowing.
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I removed the bluetooth mouse and now my trackpad and wireless mouse work again! Hey I figured out that this problems occur when i change my monitors. So try to plug and unplug your monitor and keep clicking. Also sometimes it helps to to reboot in safe mode.