After upgrading my trackpad is not working as smooth as it used to in El Capitan. Now it scrolls way too fast on some applications and slow and not smoothly on google chrome. There is no way to fix this on the accessibility menu with the trackpad speed. I hope you look into it fast, it is very annoying.
MacBook Pro, iOS 10
same issue, but your solution didn't work for me...
Thanks, that fixed my problem. 🙂
Same problem here.
I happen to know two types of software which scrolls lightning fast in macOS Sierra:
What's in common is that they scroll line-by-line, but not continuously like Safari or Pages.
When I say "lightning fast", I mean when I swipe with two fingers from bottom to top of the trackpad of my MacBook Air, the Terminal application scrolls about six pages, or the PyCharm app scrolls about 250 to 300 lines.
That's totally INSANE.
However, Safari, Pages, Chrome, Sublime Text 3, Evernote, anything else that scrolls continuously but not line-by-line, behave normally.
To fix the problem, here's what I tried one by one, suggested by some expert:
Rebooting to safe mode cost me more than 20 minutes. So DO NOT WASTE YOUR TIME!
On my MacBook Air, Mac OS X Lion was pre-installed, then it was upgraded to OS X Mountain Lion, then OS X Mavericks, then OS X Yosemite, then OS X El Capitan. None of them caused scrolling problem.
Now we upgrade to macOS Sierra, then scrolling problem happens, to a large group of people, to some specific applications.
So this is DEFINITELY A SOFTWARE PROBLEM of macOS Sierra. NO EXCUSE.
I experienced this problem myself about a week ago after getting my GM. Go into system preferences and uncheck everything and then enable force touch and everything else. Then your problem should be fixed.
Excuse me? “Go into system preferences and uncheck everything”?
There are so many options in Preferences. How can I uncheck everything?
Actually the fast scrolling happened to me using intellij so your observation is valid. Thanks for helping understand the pattern. I hope they fix this fast! It is getting very annoying to work with intellij on mac.
Same problem here on Dreamweaver CC 2015. No one of above solutione worked for me.
It' a Sierra issue.
Bye
With Magic trackpad the main menu of Photoshop CC 2015.5 after the click to select items fades away and it's impossible to select items and work.
I hope this issue Sierra vs. Trackpad will be soon fixed.
Bye
This is what is causing the issue, apparently: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8166591
Sierra generates much more scroll events than El Capitan. So the native delta from the operating system became close to 0, but Swing still converts it to 1. This makes scrolling too harsh.
Don't know how can that be fixed though.
How about non-Java application like Dreamweaver and the stock Terminal app? They also scroll insanely fast.
Maybe it has also something to do about the increased scroll events in sierra which seems to be the issue that affects programs not only on the jvm
Same thing here on MB Air and MB Pro. One of the greatest aspects of Mac experience - smooth, flawless trackpad/ mouse control gone down the drain. I tried everything posted on the net and no fix. Just a horrible, jerky scrolling and this goes both for built-in trackpads and Mighty Mice.
Considering that Apple does not seem to be planning new Macs ever again, I think I'll just go back and lock down all my machines on El Cap or Yosemite for ever. So disappointing.
I hate to have to say this, but the biggest problem Apple needs to fix right now is its CEO problem. Tim Kook is no Steve Jobs. As long as he is at the helm, I fear Apple will release shoddy software with no innovation. This is what everyone I know is saying.
Tim Kook must go.
This worked for me!!!
You are an angel.
Problem with trackpad on Mac OS Sierra
