Trackpad gestures stop working randomly after monterey update

I appreciate you pushing forward additional possible solutions as it seems there are different routes to dealing with this glitch.

When I experienced the trackpad glitch, all of my hot corners shut down as well. I tried the whole “kill dock” thing and it did nothing for me too.

It’s only been a week since I did the reinstall, which is why I’m not guaranteeing it as a success yet, but so far it’s been the only thing that has worked for me besides restarting my computer each time.

Same issue here while using the Apple Magic Trackpad 2. The 2 finger swipe left to reveal notification center works. However, 3 finger horizontal swipe and 4 finger swipes do not work. Super frustrating and will be interested to see when Apple fixes this. It still hasn't been resolved in Monterey 12.4 and I'm wondering if it will ever.

Same story for me. I'm using the newest 2021 16" MBP with M1 Max. It happens super randomly that I can't use my trackpads gestures. I can still click around and use it in its basic functions, but all the swipes and gesture features are gone. Restarting is the only fix, at the moment. Hope this gets addressed in future OS updates.

Hi, I'm late to this thread because I received my new 14-inch MacBook Pro only a few days ago. I'm experiencing the same issue; in addition all of my trackpad gestures suddenly not working, my F3 key and hot corners also glitch out. If I restart my computer the problem is resolved. I haven't tried to the Dock solution yet.

I was curious, now that it's two months later, have you continued to experience this issue? I'm on macOS version 12.1, and I'm surprised the glitch wouldn't have been resolved by now. I didn't pay thousands for a glitchy computer...

So I just did a test on my 16" Macbook Pro M1 Max running a video file on the Handbrake app to reduce size (which had the CPU doing some work), I had my screen saver set to turn on after 5 Minutes and after the screen saver turned on and was running I then touched the trackpad to open the screen and when I tried to do gestures they were not working and I could not switch screens, so I let Handbrake finish the job and then quit it, reopened Handbrake did the same video file again and waited for the screensaver to become active, then when I opened the screen, the gestures were now working.

So far for me there seems to be a connection to the screensaver becoming active and turning the functionality of the track pad on or off. I will do some more tests with other apps to see if I can find any other situations.

I have also added Screensaver to a hot Corner to open it quickly as was suggested by astriddesmet.

This is still an issue... 4 months after release. It's becoming more "typical" for Apple to deliver an OS with numerous bugs... some of which only get corrected weeks prior to the release of the next major iteration. This one is just unacceptable! 4 months!

Restarting is the only option that fixes this for me. Happens every time I plug into my external monitor.

I have a MacBook Pro 16" (M1 Pro)

2020 M1 Pro - same issues. But my trackpad randomly won't click either. I should say that the trackpad clicks, but nothing happens. Tried the Dock fix, and it worked temporarily, but the cat came back.

Yes it happens on my M1 MacBook Air (2020). After a few hours the gestures just stop working and I need to restart. I plan to downgrade to Big Sur until a permanent fix is found or the next MacOS is released. Very annoying to my workflow.

I'm facing this issue for a month while writing this.

I've updated it to 12.3.1 and after that I got started experiencing this issue. This thread is olf but this glitch is not got solved yet, very disaapointing.

I hope this will be fixed in next update, otherwise I'll rollback to the last release.

!!! Still present in 12.4. Please, raise the issue here in Feedback Assistant. Thank you.

Same issue here... but mine is a Macbook Pro 13 2020, with the INTEL processor (Core i5)! The 'click' on the touchpad also randomly works and then doesn't. A reboot sometimes fixes that, but not always. Was perfect until the Monterey update. I expect this kind of sloppy behaviour with drivers etc on Windows, but Apple make both the hardware and software so this is inexcusable in my opinion.

Good to know that there is a workaround but I don’t want to do workarounds on premium products. I bought Macbook Pro to have super-stable laptop for my business and now I’m really surprised that Apple hasn’t fixed it in the last update even if it was known bug at least for month and half.

Thanks! that fixed it for me. Glad to not be alone, but what a weird bug. Don't suppose you've ALSO had command-W to close windows stop working too? Command-Q works but not Command-W. Happened twice in between reboots lately.

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Having this issue, too - at random. Try to swipe with two fingers (to delete mail or mark as unread) and it doesn't function. It's only when I'm swiping with two fingers left or right. Brand new MacBookPro M1 Chip.