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Q: Two-finger scroll not working on MacBook Pro

Any idea why I am unable to scroll up and down in Safari and in other applications using the laptop's trackpad?  I have to move the pointer on top of a scroll bar, click and hold with one finger, then scroll with another finger.  Looking to scroll pages without dragging the scroll bar. 

 

I have already checked the Trackpad settings in System Preferences.

 

Thanks.

MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012), OS X Mountain Lion (10.8.2)

Posted on Nov 26, 2013 4:58 PM

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  • by sanjampet,

    sanjampet sanjampet Nov 26, 2013 5:20 PM in response to Cleveland
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    Nov 26, 2013 5:20 PM in response to Cleveland
  • by adamsl2010,

    adamsl2010 adamsl2010 Nov 29, 2013 12:45 PM in response to sanjampet
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    Nov 29, 2013 12:45 PM in response to sanjampet

    Neither of those solve the problem. It's as simple as it will just stop for a day, or a few hours. The trackpad is still perfectly receptive, it just ceases to have the capacity to recognize the two-finger slide.

  • by Badjujubns,

    Badjujubns Badjujubns Dec 7, 2013 8:35 PM in response to Cleveland
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    Dec 7, 2013 8:35 PM in response to Cleveland

    I keep having this same problem as well in any of the browser windows.  I can move my mouse around with one finger and I can swipe to dashboard using three fingers, but I cannot use two fingers for any scrolling or going back.  If I quit the browser completely, or restart the entire laptop, it will work for a small, random amount of time.  It is not happening in any other applications I have open...just the browsers.

  • by tjk,

    tjk tjk Dec 7, 2013 8:41 PM in response to Cleveland
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    Dec 7, 2013 8:41 PM in response to Cleveland

    Hi all,

     

    Make sure your two fingers are spread apart a bit or the trackpad may see them as one.

  • by MChuong,

    MChuong MChuong Dec 7, 2013 11:26 PM in response to Cleveland
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    Dec 7, 2013 11:26 PM in response to Cleveland

    I have the exact same issue with my 15" rMBP. With Chrome and Safari at random times the 2 finger scrolling will not work.

     

    @tjk It's not that the trackpad senses my two fingers as one, it just doesn't respond to the 2 finger scroll at all. I can use all the other mulit finger gestures with no issue when this happens.

     

    Restarting the browser fixes it for a small period of time but it happens again.

  • by tjk,

    tjk tjk Dec 7, 2013 11:37 PM in response to MChuong
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    Dec 7, 2013 11:37 PM in response to MChuong

    MChuong wrote:

     

    I have the exact same issue with my 15" rMBP. With Chrome and Safari at random times the 2 finger scrolling will not work.

     

    @tjk It's not that the trackpad senses my two fingers as one, it just doesn't respond to the 2 finger scroll at all. I can use all the other mulit finger gestures with no issue when this happens.

     

    Restarting the browser fixes it for a small period of time but it happens again.

     

    Thanks for getting us back on track. Beyond Sanjampet's links and my post, I have only one other thought, which is that it's an OS and/or trackpad compatibility issue. It's good you list your machine and the browser, but it would be better if everyone listed the OS they're running and the version of the apps in which they're experiencing the issue. In that way, it can help narrow things down to a specific OS, machine, or app. Also, please report the issue to Apple Feedback: http://www.apple.com/feedback/

  • by MChuong,

    MChuong MChuong Dec 7, 2013 11:44 PM in response to tjk
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    Dec 7, 2013 11:44 PM in response to tjk

    I have the latest version of both Chrome (Version 31.0.1650.63) and Safari (Version 7.0 (9537.71)) installed. I feel like it would be a trackpad/app compatibility issue as well seeing how the gestures work fine on everything else other than the browsers.

  • by tjk,

    tjk tjk Dec 7, 2013 11:47 PM in response to MChuong
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    Dec 7, 2013 11:47 PM in response to MChuong

    MChuong wrote:

     

    I feel like it would be a trackpad/app compatibility issue as well seeing how the gestures work fine on everything else other than the browsers.

     

    Agreed. Unfortunately, that may mean waiting for Apple to come up with a fix in the next point update to Mav.

  • by MChuong,

    MChuong MChuong Dec 7, 2013 11:50 PM in response to tjk
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    Dec 7, 2013 11:50 PM in response to tjk

    Hopefully its soon. A tad annoying when I'm in the middle of something and all of a sudden my trackpad stops working and I can't scroll. Don't really notice something small like that you use on a daily basis until its gone 

  • by GoRamsFootball,

    GoRamsFootball GoRamsFootball Dec 8, 2013 6:36 AM in response to Cleveland
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    Dec 8, 2013 6:36 AM in response to Cleveland

    I recently upgraded to OS 10.9.  When I did that I noticed that the scroll arrows were removed from the scroll bar.  When that happened I needed to find a new way to scroll as I didn't like just grabbing the scroll bar up and down.  I never used the 2 finger scroll prior to the upgrade so I don't know if it ever worked in the old operating system (10.6.8).  All the other gestures seem to work, the two finger click works to use the RIGHT-CLICK function, the only thing that doesn't work is the two finger scroll up and down.

     

    I've checked setting, I've reinstalled OS 10.9, I've troubleshooted for hours and can't get it to work.

     

    I using the following:

    MacBook 13-inch, Mid 2010

    Processor  2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo

    Memory  2 GB 1067 MHz DDR3

    Graphics  NVIDIA GeForce 320M 256 MB

    Software  OS X 10.9 (13A603)

     

    Is this a software issue or a hardware issue?  Any help on a fix would be greatly appreciated.

  • by jacksondc,

    jacksondc jacksondc Dec 27, 2013 10:49 PM in response to Cleveland
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    Dec 27, 2013 10:49 PM in response to Cleveland

    I'm having the exact same problem in Chrome (version 31.0.1650.63) and OSX 10.9.1. As others have reported, two-finger gestures in other applications and three- and four-finger gestures in any application all work fine.

  • by Apple-Pie Order,Helpful

    Apple-Pie Order Apple-Pie Order Jan 27, 2014 9:53 PM in response to jacksondc
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    Jan 27, 2014 9:53 PM in response to jacksondc

    This is a bug and it's caused when you swipe between pages with two fingers.

     

    How to fix:

     

    1. Quit Chrome.
    2. Open System Prefences.
    3. Choose View > Trackpad, or click Trackpad.
    4. Click the More Gestures tab.
    5. Disable "Swipe between pages".
    6. Restart Chrome.

     

    Additional Information

     

    If you own an Apple Magic Mouse, I would also disable the same gesture within the Mouse preferences pane.

  • by zzalp,

    zzalp zzalp Feb 19, 2014 10:18 AM in response to Apple-Pie Order
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    Feb 19, 2014 10:18 AM in response to Apple-Pie Order

    worked for me. Thank you

  • by Tropicthunder,

    Tropicthunder Tropicthunder Feb 25, 2014 5:43 AM in response to Cleveland
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    Feb 25, 2014 5:43 AM in response to Cleveland

    If anyone has this issue with an extral Apple trackpad (maybe you're using a laptop docked to a monitor), I have found that disconnecting the trackpad from the laptops bluetooth connection restores vertical scrolling. But it's a recurring problem that Apple needs to fix.

     

    Bluetooth/disconnect trackpad/press trackpad button on the side to restore.

     

    Other solutions have also worked but again, they are temporary fixes but thank you to all that have offered some help.

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