Tap-to-click issue on MacOS 12.0.1

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The problem seems to occur when I click to a new app, then the first click in that app is unresponsive. It's consistent for me.

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It’s not the official release ! It’s the release candidate… official release is expected this week or next Monday

Aside from x86-only Apps - This computer has x86-only apps might not work on future versions of the operating system.

and Google Chrome which is a known Memory and CPU hog ( reports elsewhere it consumes 10x as much CPU and RAM than native Browser looks good.

Just as suggestion for down the road - x86 Application are still supported and function via Rosette 2 - worth looking forwards to when Apple may cease supporting x86 in future newer versions of macOS. This may become more critical as more and more Apple Computers go only M Chips.

History from another era - the old Motorola PPC once was the main CPU and then Intel was introduced. During that transition the original Rosetta emulator was in place to handle the move. But, at some point around maybe Snow Leopard ( I think ?? ) support for PPC based Apps ceased and only Intel became the accepted. Draw the same parallel between Into and M Chipped CPUs

Hi, i have similar problems with my trackpad. (use the external trackpad) The trackpad’s sensitivity is not as good as it was before the Monterey update. It is really annoying to work with that! Sometimes there are wasted clicks, mouse cursor lags and I feel bad when I work with it. (MacBook Air M1)

Same. Tap to click, which I specifically paid for in practical terms, purchasing the trackpad to pair with my late 2015 iMac. Such a beautiful experience editing both photos and videos with tap to click and some other options in accessibility; especially super useful in Final Cut. But it is super hard to get along with this now.

Cursor jumps around sometimes as well. It's just the tap to click function though. If I disable that the trackpad functions well. Unfortunately, if Apple doesn't fix this, I've really got a problem with them since I paid specifically for the functionality that they've now broken.

With Apple, it is not such a sure thing that they'll quickly fix bugs, but, since trackpads are a major thing due to their superior notebooks, I'd think it gets fixed pretty quick. It better.

I take it back. It really felt like the trackpad was back to its "pre-Monterey self", but this morning it is not registering single-taps upon first try.

So, nothing in the system preferences seems to address this issue. Now it's a waiting game with Apple.

P. Phillips wrote:

Suggest downloading the Application Etrecheck directly from a well Respected ASC Contributor. 

EtreCheck is not going to help with this problem because the EtreCheck developer is also suffering from it. 😄

I have a problem that the trackpad stops responding reliably when I use the pinch-to-zoom gesture. For example, to zoom into a workspace in Adobe XD. I use this gesture very often and it is very annoying that it no longer works.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) 2,2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 | Mac OS 12.0.1 (21A559)

Marcus_4SELLERS wrote:

I have a problem that the trackpad stops responding reliably when I use the pinch-to-zoom gesture. For example, to zoom into a workspace in Adobe XD. I use this gesture very often and it is very annoying that it no longer works.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018) 2,2 GHz 6-Core Intel Core i7 | Mac OS 12.0.1 (21A559)

I use two- and three- and four-finger gestures, as defined in System Preferences->Trackpad, and they all work.

Is this issue happening for you system-wide, or specifically in this Adobe application?

Sounds like you've thoroughly tried to get to the bottom of this issue, unfortunately to no avail. I understand the frustration and its bothering me quite a lot too. Some of these steps you've taken apply only to an intel based machine, as I understand certain troubleshooting steps work a little differently on apple silicon.

I have tried to get used to the hard clicking- but as I said in my initial post the 'silent clicking' function makes absolutely difference to the synthetic click noise coming out the speaker. it still sounds the same and I wish it was truly silent. I remember it being that way with my previous intel machine and it was so satisfying to use. Apple clearly have a lot modifications to make with their software for the trackpad.

Hopefully the next update sorts all these things out.

Best wishes,

Ali.

I had a similar experience. I messed around with some settings, closed some background apps like Dropbox, and then enabled tap to click again. It seemed to work fine, but the next day, with no more changes, I was missing clicks with a jumpy cursor again.

Maybe the erratic nature of this bug is why more people aren’t complaining about it. It’s easy to dismiss a missed click here and there as user error, even if the frustration is gradually getting worse.

Perhaps also when responding with results it would be informative to say whether you are finding daily usage of tap to click acceptable or not.

I've yet to perform the test, but I suppose that I might get similar results to the posted 93 and 94 percent, and currently I'm not finding the performance horrendous as I did before things improved for me. I'll report back in a bit when I've done the test.