trackpad moving but not clicking

awesome - fixed my problem, too. thanks!

Brilliant! Magic Mouse was turned on in my laptop bag - problem solved! 🙂

Very helpful indeed, thanks a lot for this tip

Take me out and dunk me in a vat of motor oil. I tried everything including sending all my other hardware with input devices to my sister in Uganda. Totally convinced this was not my problem I went back to setting pram's and vram's and pounding my head against more useless bulletin boards that continued to tell me what to do if my mouse would click. Finally, I picked up a pillow in the corner of my office to suffocate my frustrated self and found a white wireless mouse grinning at me.

Fantastic! My Magic Mouse was stuck in my couch cushion and was on; I found it, turned it off and that fixed it! -- Darn kids.....😝

I can't believe what worked for me. After rebooting, reading different websites, trying to fix it on my own, perplexed why one day the trackpad was working just fine, and then it stopped clicking.

Thank you, Twheeler 77, for posting your amazing words of wisdom!! Your the best.

✅

twheeler 77 wrote:

In case anyone has the same issue as above but not relating to the Magic Mouse (I don't use one), it may be from dust or crumbs in the clickpad (if mechanical models). Try holding the laptop upside down and tapping the clickpad hard several times. This worked for me. I promise to ease up on the cookies, ha.

Worked brilliantly for me!! Your the best.

I had the same issue, and turning off bluetooth fixed the issue.

ps: most probably you right click should work(two finger tap) use that to turn off bluetooth

Hi. None of these worked for me. Here's the difference...

My laptop ran out of battery while connected via bluetooth to a magic mouse and keyboard. I took the laptop only to a school, plugged it in, powered it up and noticed the trackpad wouldn't click but would tap.

In my brilliance (Lol!), I went into the Settings and turned off the "tap to click" check box. OMG! Now all I can do is move the cursor.

I tried zapping the PRAM but not the other one with no luck.

Any thoughts on this one?

Same for me.

It was my magic mouse that for some reason was turned on in my computer bag.

Thanks for the suggestion.

Thanks!

It worked for me once.

Another time, I thought I had forgotten at home my MagicMouse. So reading the answers below, I discovered that it was in the luggage and on.

Same problem here -- NVRAM reset solved my problem. Thank you!

Here's some things to try:

http://osxdaily.com/2016/11/19/unable-to-click-mouse-trackpad-mac-fix/

Good luck!

The PRAM reset worked first try for me!

The restart had no effect. Good thing I had the mouse to navigate to find this thread!

Thanks to those who posted the fix.

Happens to me too. I dusted and swipe the whole trackpad and click frunctionality went back.

That was a good one. True. Same thing happened to my mac.

Greetings from Canada.