trackpad Drag Lock and 3 Finger Drag at once?

[msvadi]

It used to be possible to make dragging with Drag Lock and 3 Finger Drag work at the same time by running these two commands in the terminal and rebooting:

defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad TrackpadThreeFingerDrag -bool true
defaults write com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad Dragging -bool true

See, for example, here: https://apple.stackexchange.com/que...-trackpad-drag-lock-and-3-finger-drag-at-once

However, it appears that macOS 26 broke this hack. Is there another way to make this work? I use 3 Finger Drag all the time, but unfortunately, it disables text selection with a tap.

 

[Feek]

This is definitely broken in Tahoe. If I set Dragging Style to be Without Drag Lock and then enable three finger dragging via the terminal, even though accessibility / pointer control / trackpad still shows Without Drag Lock, it forces drag lock on.

I'm holding off updating my Mac Studio to Tahoe because of this.

/edit - And I have logged it via feedbackassistant.apple.com

Spoiler

 

[msvadi]

This is definitely broken in Tahoe.

Thank you for confirming

 

[Feek]

Thank you for confirming

Have you also logged it with Apple? The more people who do, the better.

 

[msvadi]

Have you also logged it with Apple? The more people who do, the better.

I'm wondering if it was disabled intentionally. I believe the termina-based solution was always viewd as a hack