Tap-to-click issue on MacOS 12.0.1

I had already done so. I think the link is to the wrong feedback system. That's for betas and developers. There is a regular feedback at:

https://www.apple.com/feedback/

Since this is an official OS release now and it's somewhat unlikely developers are posting here, I think the link above is the one we are expected to use, although I suppose it won't hurt to report to either or both.

12.1 seems to have fixed the tap to click bug. However, my Magic Trackpad (external) sometimes seems a bit laggy.

Sometimes when I drag my finger across the trackpad, there will be a slight delay (~0.25 secs) before the mouse cursor/pointer moves on the screen.

Other times, the mouse cursor/pointer will jump slightly out of position while I'm moving my finger around the trackpad.

Is anyone else seeing this?

I'm also experiencing this problem on a m1 max 14", and it is extremely frustrating. I've heard rumours that the 12.1 release of Monterey would solve the problem but I haven't noticed any improvements. I try playing around with the click setting on configurations from light to medium and firm to no avail.

One thing I've noticed is that if I press cmd and then slightly move the trackpad before clicking seems to be more consistent.

This is extremely annoying, and it is definitely ruining my experience with my brand new and rather expensive mac.

Same here. 14 inch. Happens every time after I connect to a monitor via HDMI…… Need to restart the computer to resolve it, quite annonying.

The 12.1 update released today has been reported by some people with access to have fixed this issue. Crossing my fingers!

I can comfirm today’s 12.1 (not-official) update fixed the issue finally! Thanks everyone who helped reporting the issue! 👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼

HouseofG wrote:

The 12.1 update released today has been reported by some people with access to have fixed this issue. Crossing my fingers!

Great news!! Crossed fingers!!!

Yes! Downgraded to Big Sur because of this. Strangely enough I remember having the same issue with Big Sur in the first version... Also BT issues and "Ignore trackpad when mouse is present" issues. Happy camper on Big Sur so far, so not trying anytime soon.

Hello,

I have been experiencing a very similar issue. The issue seems to be only with the 'tap to click' functionality on the trackpad. For every X amount of taps, one tap will be totally unresponsive. When you're working for longer periods of time you begin to feel it more and its really frustrating. I have contacted apple support- ran a first aid on the hard drive which made no difference. As a result I was told to install macOS Monterey fresh and that also made no difference at all. After speaking to someone more senior in the support team, I was told that this issue has now been raised to the software engineers and hopefully would expect to see a fix in the next incremental update. The MacBook I own is a MacBook Air 2020 M1.

Another issue I pointed out to apple is that the 'silent clicking' option in trackpad settings makes absolutely no difference to the artificial 'click' sounds when pressing down on the trackpad. I recall having a previous MacBook Air with a 10th gen intel chip which really did click silently when selecting this option. Strange.

I hope this helps.

Best wishes,

Ali

The only fix to this was tweaking the trackpad speed tracking, silent clicking and the medium-firm click modification, it depends from person to another but this should do the trick and help somehow.. didn't notice that issue since, but still hope next update will fix this bug for good

I "solved" the issue by finally reverting to BigSur. Monterey was a nightmare. Never had any upgrade experience like that before. Wow. I can only think of one thing I liked about Monterey. Everything else was a regression. Just terrible.

I can't say how much or if it will help others, but on a related thread someone posted that resetting SMC had helped him.

It is certainly worth a try.

@lamfromhi it’s absolutely monterey’s fault .. downgrading to big sur fixed it for many users

I've upgraded to the official release 12.1 (21C51) now and all issues with the trackpad seems to have been solved now. Feeling happy and comfy again.

Already did. But, for me, a reboot has given me a fresh lease on sanity for the time being. Didn't think it'd help, but it did. Still needs to be addressed ASAP though.