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

tap-to-click, the feature for the people that like accidental input.

I've been using it for roughly two decades - accidental clicks have never been an issue.

Finally...

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*).

Memory leaks? ProMotion? MagSafe charging?

Hooray!

How many missed clicks I’ve had with Monterey … and using press to click actually drains the the trackpad‘s battery much faster.

It’s not just tap-to-click that’s the problem. It’s all the trackpad gestures:

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/253320997