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Latest macOS 12.1 Beta Appears to Fix Intermittent 'Tap to Click' Issue

Is this email something everyone gets that reported the tap to click issue? If not you can all thank me and send me beer, girls, and money.
 

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I’m using an external mouse, and the scroll jumps with a lot of miss clicks and at times opens things in 2-3 instances.

Is this issue related? I have trackpad still enabled with tap-to-click on 12.0.1.
 
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No it didn't fix it completely. cmd+click still doesn't register sometimes. Not to mention other trackpad gesture issues
 
"Oh, so it's not just me OR my beloved old silver Magic Trackpad!" he exclaimed, before hitting his new, didn't actually need, $129 Magic Trackpad THREE times on the link to place a reply on Macrumors.
 
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ramallite said:
To be clear, the "tap to click" problem appeared to have been part of a wider problem with the trackpad. Below is the report I sent to Apple last week. I haven't downloaded the latest beta yet, but I hope it fixes all the problems I described below, not just tap-to-click.

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• Tap to click with one finger: erratic, sometimes need to tap 2-3 attempts for the tap to register.

• Scrolling up or down with two fingers: Seems to be fine.

• Swipe between full-screen apps with four fingers: When swiping to the *right*, it frequently swipes to the *left* screen instead, or starts to swipe to the right but suddenly bounces back to the original screen. When swiping *left*, however, it acts correctly every time. This indicates that swiping to the left with 4 fingers is correct, but swiping to the right sometimes registers as swiping to the left.

• When swiping down with 4 fingers for App Exposé, it frequently bounces back to desktop mid-way through the action. When swiping *up* with 4 fingers for Mission Control, it often takes 2-3 tries to reverse back to the desktop. This indicates that swiping *up* with 4 fingers seems to register correctly, but swiping *down* with 4 fingers actually registers as a swipe *up* some of the time.

• Pinch with thumb and three fingers for Launchpad: Will often end with Mission Control instead (again, incorrectly registering as a 4-finger swipe *up*).
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Ok - I downloaded the update. The first item above (tap to click with one finger) appears to be fixed, but the third and fourth items (swiping between full-screen apps with four fingers and swiping down with 4 fingers for App Exposé) still have not been fixed. Still not sure about the last point (launchpad).
 
anyone here use 3-finger drag?

Not sure if this is a bug or if it's working as intended, but if I 3-finger drag an item on the desktop and then "let go" of the file, everything pauses for a brief moment and THEN it drops the item. There's a weird split second lag going on.

You can see it here...

https://imgur.com/l0M0uxN

I drag the Spotify icon out of the dock. The first two drags are just using the trackpad normally. The icon immediately snaps back when I let go. The next two are with 3-finger drag and you can see the brief lag.
 
ramallite said:
Ok - I downloaded the update. The first item above (tap to click with one finger) appears to be fixed, but the third and fourth items (swiping between full-screen apps with four fingers and swiping down with 4 fingers for App Exposé) still have not been fixed. Still not sure about the last point (launchpad).
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can you confirm that the tap to click is fully fixed for you? Would you mind testing it with `cmd + tap` to, for example, open links in the background and seeing if it's working? On my 14" MBP, beta 4 has made the tap to click itself perfectly reliable, but as soon as I pair it with a modifier key such as 'cmd', which I do very frequently, to open links in the background, it STILL requires 3 taps.
 
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apple_tap_to_click_sucks said:
can you confirm that the tap to click is fully fixed for you? Would you mind testing it with `cmd + tap` to, for example, open links in the background and seeing if it's working? On my 14" MBP, beta 4 has made the tap to click itself perfectly reliable, but as soon as I pair it with a modifier key such as 'cmd', which I do very frequently, to open links in the background, it STILL requires 3 taps.
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Seeing exactly the same here.
 
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ramallite said:
Ok - I downloaded the update. The first item above (tap to click with one finger) appears to be fixed, but the third and fourth items (swiping between full-screen apps with four fingers and swiping down with 4 fingers for App Exposé) still have not been fixed. Still not sure about the last point (launchpad).
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Agreed. Tap to click is fixed, but I'm still having issues with 3 fingers up/3 fingers down to switch app screens. Primarily, 3 fingers down not fully registering and leaving me with all my windows still up. Similar to your 4 finger App Exposé experience.
 
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apple_tap_to_click_sucks said:
can you confirm that the tap to click is fully fixed for you? Would you mind testing it with `cmd + tap` to, for example, open links in the background and seeing if it's working? On my 14" MBP, beta 4 has made the tap to click itself perfectly reliable, but as soon as I pair it with a modifier key such as 'cmd', which I do very frequently, to open links in the background, it STILL requires 3 taps.
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I actually do not use command-tap (but when I tried it now, it seemed to be fine so far). I usually use triple-finger tap for hyperlinks/word lookup and I can tell you that it's not working reliably.

But since you brought up the command key, and even though I don't use command-tap, I do regularly use command-S or command-F (constantly since I work on documents all the time). And in the past few weeks, sometimes these commands don't work (i.e., when I hit command-S to save, it actually types an 's' instead). I verified that the command key itself is not stuck (it registers as being pressed every time), so on my end, there does appear to be persisting problems with 'command+[key]' functions even under the most recent beta.
 
Heard anything about issues with crashing during sleep? In my case, this is on a late 2013 Mac Pro (trashcan). Various reports have it related to USB hub (true in my case) and/or RTC battery (on order).
 
VSG said:
Hooray!

How many missed clicks I’ve had with Monterey … and using press to click actually drains the the trackpad‘s battery much faster.
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Well the funny thing is that I have Tap to click unchecked and it still works. Go figure.
 
ramallite said:
To be clear, the "tap to click" problem appeared to have been part of a wider problem with the trackpad. Below is the report I sent to Apple last week. I haven't downloaded the latest beta yet, but I hope it fixes all the problems I described below, not just tap-to-click.

--

• Tap to click with one finger: erratic, sometimes need to tap 2-3 attempts for the tap to register.

• Scrolling up or down with two fingers: Seems to be fine.

• Swipe between full-screen apps with four fingers: When swiping to the *right*, it frequently swipes to the *left* screen instead, or starts to swipe to the right but suddenly bounces back to the original screen. When swiping *left*, however, it acts correctly every time. This indicates that swiping to the left with 4 fingers is correct, but swiping to the right sometimes registers as swiping to the left.

• When swiping down with 4 fingers for App Exposé, it frequently bounces back to desktop mid-way through the action. When swiping *up* with 4 fingers for Mission Control, it often takes 2-3 tries to reverse back to the desktop. This indicates that swiping *up* with 4 fingers seems to register correctly, but swiping *down* with 4 fingers actually registers as a swipe *up* some of the time.

• Pinch with thumb and three fingers for Launchpad: Will often end with Mission Control instead (again, incorrectly registering as a 4-finger swipe *up*).
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I've been having a huge issue with the swipe between full screen apps recently, and beta 4 definitely did not fix it :(
 
Sadly the latest build (12.1 beta 4) didn't solve the issue for my 2021 MacBook pro 14.

The tap won't register if any key is pressed and I can still reproduce this 100% of the time.
(hold cmd, do not move cursor, any tap within next 2 seconds won't register)
 
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urock374 said:
Sadly the latest build (12.1 beta 4) didn't solve the issue for my 2021 MacBook pro 14.

The tap won't register if any key is pressed and I can still reproduce this 100% of the time.
(hold cmd, do not move cursor, any tap within next 2 seconds won't register)
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yes exactly the same here.
 
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Maybe tap was fixed (something I haven't noticed) but latest beta brought strange stuff to my multi touch gestures.
I slide with 4 fingers trough full screen apps, and sometimes it gets right back. It's like you hit a spring and the screen bounces right back. Very annoying.

That is first, I hope won't find others.
 
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