Trackpad misses first tap after upgrade to Monterey

Same issue here. Intermittent on MacBook Pro 13 2020. I've tried changing settings, but this is certainly a bug. Issue is with tap to click. Takes more than one tap to select the majority of the time, though every once in awhile it works first try.

Yup, same here. At first I thought it was just me, but realized I wasn't crazy when I found this thread. It's extremely annoying, and I agree with others here that the change was totally unnecessary. I did adjust in System Preferences, but it's not where it used to be, before Monterey. I'm wondering if there might be a terminal hack for it (like with repeat rate)???

EDIT: Actually, I'm now with others who believe it's a bug... doesn't seem consistent, and doesn't seem to be affected by how hard/soft I tap.

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?!

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

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.

Same here with Monterey...

I thought it was an issue with my brand-new magic trackpad but apparently it's a bug.

Hopefully it'll be resolved in a proximate update

I filed a bug report to apple

You should too...

I forgot to mention in my reply above to the Click problem with the Trackpad and Monterey.

Apple: Please give a shoutout to the guys/gals that originally developed the Trackpads and associated software. It's by far the best trackpad I have ever used and it's the only one thats good enough (I could use a bigger surface area). This trackpad is the product that convinced me to migrate to Apple products from the wasteland. It has made a huge improvement to my user experience when using a computer.

Apple: I have been patiently waiting for fifteen years for the day when I can have only one computer to learn and maintain. And that will be my phone, wirelessly connected to my TV and then relegated to act as a trackpad. Does anyone realize that we then will not need reading glasses. Oh and by the way all TV's should have the same internal computer and it should also act as the household computer and it should be produced and maintained by organizations such as Apple.

wheetabix wrote:

Actually, I've also noticed that occasionally the mouse/pointer jumps to a different location. Not sure if it's a related issue, but has anybody else noticed the same?

Only once or twice...per minute.

I don't suppose there's anybody here on 12.0? I don't remember experiencing this when I first got my machine, which shipped with 12.0. Just curious, really, since I know we can't get back to that version... (And no, I can't actually revert to the original version through Restore... weird...)

I wonder if this is something to do with Universal Control—it does have to do with basic interaction, so I could see it maybe creating issues.

I wonder if my difficulty double-clicking with my mouse is related to this. Since I installed Monterey it sometimes takes a couple of tries to double-click. Also having trouble with my Mail inbox scrolling out of control, but maybe I can find another thread for that.

Ditto. 12.0 didn't seem to have the problem, or at least, not as bad.

I used to love Tap to Click—I always felt Apple's implementation was flawless. Had it worked like this all along, I NEVER would have used it.

No disrespect to leroydouglas, I’d be curious to know what about this post Apple finds worthy of recommendation aside the very good suggestion to submit feedback?

It would be interesting to know how they broke such basic functionality.

"I've also noticed that occasionally the mouse/pointer jumps to a different location"

Yup.

This happened many years ago, but was fixed. Now it's made a comeback.

I'm also suffering from the infuriating 'missed taps'. I've set the sensitivity to Click - Light, which has perhaps helped, but not that much.

I've also found that selecting text, in some apps, has become incredibly difficult. Ironically, in html it's ok. Perhaps they've decided that's the future? In Filemaker for example, it has become incredibly difficult, just to select a line of text. I have to start from the left. Impossible from the right.