MacBook Air M1 trackpad click not working

Mine works after restarting the computer or forcing the device to shut down like you mentioned. This happens randomly on my device and its pretty annoying. I noticed I can use gestures and two finger click (right click). Only the left click is not working.

My OS is updated to Sonoma 14.1.1 and I'm wondering if this is just an issue with the update as I haven't experience this before.

I haven't tried to run diagnostic yet but will probably do.

Hey. Same thing is happening to me. Did you solve this? If so, please tell me how you did.

It isnt working for me.

i was legit just working on mine and it was fine. Video ended and I can’t click. I can move the mouse around, but no tap click or push click. Restart didn’t work

March 2024

Developed over the last few days and is now full-blown problem. Neither trackpad nor mouse (Bluetooth or USE) working. I have to do a hard shutdown, reboot and things work for a moment and then...nothing. Can't access anything on my MB Pro.

Help!

This has been happenng to me as well. It's not just just the trackpad, but mouse click gets jammed as well.

When the "click" gets "selectively" jammed I can only click within browser, for instance, and desktop icons but dock items. Some other application, it behaves like right click (even I left clicking, as if I was holding option or control key)

Then it always takes a restart or two to resolve.

My spec is 2021 M1 Macbook Pro Max and on the latest Sonoma 14.3.1.

I even reinstalled macOS but the problem is still there ...

This worked! Thought I was going to have to replace the trackpad...Thank You!!

Same issue happened with me. M1 MacBook air was working fine until suddenly it just stops working. I’ve restarted it twice and it’s not been fixed yet.

Has anyone heard from Apple regarding this?

In case it's helpful to anyone here, I had this issue intermittently for months until I realized that the machine was connecting to a bluetooth Magic Mouse in an adjacent room, and the computer was disabling input on the trackpad as a result.

TLDR, make sure your peripherals are disconnected when trying to diagnose :)

This started happening to me 2-3 days ago, must've happened with a new firmware / update. Needs to be fixed ASAP. Fix does not work, tried twice, don't work.

The shutdown may or may not work for me, after a few trials.

We should hear from Apple Support, here: Are we dealing with hardware/software/driver problems? It's not making sense to me.

In fact, it is randomly the case that one app would exhibit this problem (Pages, for ex) while another app might not exhibit this problem, all within the same run.

Same for me on both my M1 and M2 MacBook Airs. The force shut down only works for a few minutes then it’s back at it. I have seen that if I hover the curser over what I want to click on for 20-30 seconds then it will click. It seems random as to what it will click on and what it won’t. It’s a big pain in the rear.

The “fix” of rebooting is not a fix. It’s a bandaid. It still happens again. An actual fix would keep this from happening again.

The trackpad does not physically click. Mac trackpads haven't physically clicked since 2017 I believe. It feels like they click because of the haptics. If there is no power to the trackpad it will not vibrate (which feels like a click).

They removed the physical movement so that any part of the trackpad can be clicked with the same amount of pressure. With a hinge you press lighter at the bottom and harder at the top. For years the trackpad has been a stationary piece of glass

Guys, the questioner has included the fix to this problem at the end of the question:

• "Hold the power (Touch ID) button about 10 seconds to force shut down. Wait a minute or two and power on with the Touch ID button.
• Trackpad physical clicking works again."