Trackpad misses first tap after upgrade to Monterey

I have the same issue and it's driving me crazy. Also, my GarageBand won't open on the first try now. Apple support is just as bad as every other company now. They used to have computer techs who knew the answers and now they are just people who read the same instructions that we do to try and fix the issues. So you wind up on the phone hours to do what you already did before calling.

I have the same issue, thought it was first hardware or me, glad to see it's not. Sad to see so many affected by this. I tried setting it to more "light", but the behaviour is not as it used to be.

Please Apple, recognise this bug and fix it, the trackpad has been one of those things that just works and this makes it insanely frustrating to use...

It is a BUG, has been introduced by Monterey and has been here for many days now, there's NOTHING a User can do to mitigate this issue!

It should be fixed by now!

Why hasn't been fixed yet?

Why there is no response from Apple?!

The mysterious thing is that in this case it's something positive. They have solve the problem. But maybe they just follow the idea that it could be negativ judgment about the xxx and then the AI robot delete it?

Problem still persists, no official updates yet. In fact just when I was login in here I had to tap 3 times in the login credential fields for the trackpad to recognize the input. It's extremely annoying and it is surprising to me Apple messed up with such a basic functionality that has always worked perfectly before Monterey.

My machine is an intel MacBook Pro mid-2019 full spec.

Just to pile on, I am having the same issue. MBP using an external Magic Trackpad. Figured it was my Magic Trackpad since it's several years old, or maybe I was just at fault even though I've never had issues tapping before, but now that I think about it, it only started happening after my upgrade. Annoying, but not infuriating -- still, needs to be fixed, since annoying can eventually become infuriating :)

I have a new 14 inch m1 pro and I got it with monterey 12.0.1 and didn't have this issue.

Upgrading to 12.1 2 days ago cause this issue for me!

It is a nightmare. About 20% of my taps don't get registered. This is especially annoying when scrolling. I scroll and nothing happens, have to do the gesture again to be able to scroll, sometimes twice. Sometimes it works smoothly and then suddenly starts missing scroll. It is painful...

allon224 wrote:

I have a new 14 inch m1 pro and I got it with monterey 12.0.1 and didn't have this issue.

Upgrading to 12.1 2 days ago cause this issue for me!

Thanks for posting this.

I upgraded an Intel MBPro suffering badly from the issue. Totally fixed.

I shall hold-off on upgrading an M1 MBPro, which has NOT had the issue under Monterey 12.0.1

MacBook Pro 14 inch, 2021

Apple M1 Max

Memory 64GB

Monterey 12.1

Tap to click Not fixed in OS12.1. First tap generally works. Second tap to open, select text, etc., does NOT work. Any subsidiary tap accompanying control, option, command does NOT work. I've adjusted settings in both Trackpad and Accessibility > Pointer Control > Trackpad Option and nothing works. What I have noticed is second tap as noted above 'clicks in' after three (3) subsequent taps. For example, in Numbers, with control/command I have to tap three (3) times, slowly or with relatively long time gap between, to select a second or range of spreadsheet cells. Pain in the fingers this is. I just bought this M1 Max because I thought my 2018 MacBook Pro with useless 'butterfly' keyboard was finally dying; only to now realise it's probably Monterey fault all along.

Guys, after hours on the phone with Apple support, nothing helped.

I posted above but basically I have the 14 inch m1 pro, 12.0.1 was fine, then upgraded to 12.1 created the problem.

I had just bought the computer a few days before so hadn't done a time machine backup.

In the end I followed instructions on the net because Apple support couldn't help.

I had to connect my old macbook to the new one with a usb-c cable (not any cable, the one from apple), before that I completely wiped my new computer clean. (BTW - reinstalling the OS in recovery mode did not help nor did updating to 12.2 beta, even made it worse and my magic mouse also started acting up)

So after wiping the computer I opened it in DFU mode which requires precisely clicking left option-control + right shift + power for exactly 10 seconds (took 30 tries about to get it right).

Then I on the older computer had already downloaded the ISPW file for 12.0.1 which also took me hours to find.

I flashed that over to my new computer using apple configurator 2 on my old computer connected to my new computer in DFU recovery mode.

12.0.1 is back on my new computer and problem is gone.

Using the pre downloaded ISPW file it took less than 30 minutes.

Now the question is why this happens only to some of us and not the rest.

Is something faulty with the hardware that only surfaces in certain versions of the OS? What could it be.

Here is the article that saved me:

Seems I can't put links here so look for mrmacintosh

restore-macos-firmware-on-an-apple-silicon-mac-boot-to-dfu-mode

You will also need his DB so look for:

macos-12-monterey-full-installer-database-download-directly-from-apple

I don't see this as hardware. As I wrote above, my old 2108 MBP trackpad worked fine until OS12.

Regardless this issue is serious. What took me 15 minutes to do before is taking me hours and too many mistakes occurring. Even Command/C, Command/V for simple copy and paste does not work most of the time. I have to hold Command key down and press 'C' or 'V' or any other quick key half a dozen times to ensure it's taken hold. Tap, drag to select doesn't work. Pages Command, tap to toggle to rotate never works - I have to press the trackpad physically to get any response.

We're way backwards here. I am about to toss this new computer into the pool and buy anything other than Apple. I am a 35 years user of Apple products but I am tired of this nonsense.

12.1 seems to have fixed it for me

Many people are experiencing this: Tap-to-click issue on MacOS 12.0.1 - Apple Community

To anyone reading this, try resetting your NVRAM. This seems to have resolved the issue for me.

Instructions here: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204063

Hope this helps someone!

I have a similar issue with my MBA M1. Sometimes the 1st tap to click doesn't work, the next one does. Very annoying bug