Trackpad too sensitive, reacts when palm lightly touches it

Anybody? Am I asking this in the wrong forum?... 🤷🏻‍♂️

I can't be the only one who has had this issue, right?

No, same problem and I wish that Apple had designed a track pad an inch or so less wide.

I have no idea what "enable the keyboard focus tracking: while typing option," means...

Love to understand what you mean.

Still have never seen "enable keyboard focus" and have no idea what you mean there.

Please post a screenshot of that setting and what you mean?

I've been using Macs exclusively for well over three decades. This is a laptop, and ultimately, I need to find a way to prevent the trackpad from highlighting lines of text and deleting them.

This happens because the pad of one's right hand (below the thumb) hovers over the right side of the trackpad which is nearly an inch offset from the space bar. Apple should have matched the space bar size because the proper way to type involves your index fingers sitting on the "F" and "J" keys.

I don't know why Apple thinks that we need such a large trackpad on their laptops these days, but it's a shame there's not a way to "deaden" it (or the right side) so it doesn't interfere with writing. As I mentioned in the original post, there used to be a system setting to address this, but now there is not.

Do you have "Tap-to-click" enabled?

If you do, try disabling it and see if you can retrain your muscle memory to use a physical click.

When I had an Apple repair and support biz, we'd turn on Tap to Click when a MacBook was on our bench because we had so many things to install that it saved time. But it never worked well if you wanted to have your laptop in your lap and surf the web or write.