Swipes in Safari stop working

I noticed today that this swipe problem with Safari occurred when using my bluetooth trackpad with my MacBook Pro, but not when using the built in laptop trackpad. I was able to swipe correctly in Safari with the laptop trackpad, and on the very same Safari tabunable to swipe with the bluetooth trackpad.

This would appear therefore to be a bluetooth trackpad issue. To resolve it I simply disabled bluetooth on my Mac, and then re-enabled it, after which the swiping worked again with the external trackpad.

Thanks so much Eldoardo! I started having this issue a couple days ago and reseting the PRAM worked for me (2011 iMac 27")

I swear I'd done everything but that but it seems to have worked. I think I just needed to dig out a wired mouse so I'd still have some kind of peripheral connection. Phew.... Thanks for suggesting that. I was ready to toss my iMac out a window.

There is no need to reset the PRAM. I've just tried closing the lid and opening it again and it got fixed. So Apple -> Sleep will probably work too.

Sorry, by "it worked" I meant turning off blutooth and turning it back on. The PRAM reset was ineffective for me. I'm on an iMac with magic trackpad.

Thanks!!! Kay.Kay. It worked for me too.

Edouardo -- You are the Wizard of Oz!

Thanks!!!

Awesome!!

**************To re-iterate from above:

Edoardo Allievi Milano

Resetting the (...) the 2 finger swipe (...)

1. Shut down your Mac.
2. Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command (⌘), Option (can be with "alt" on some keyboards), P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
3. Turn on the computer.
4. Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys before the gray screen appears.
5. Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
6. Release the keys.

Fixed my problem with safari freezing as well by reseting the PRAM...thank you Edoardo!

Is there a definitive solution to this problem yet?

Reseting PRAM works, but it's quite tedious having to do that every now and then.

As I mentioned above, simply putting your mac to sleep and waking it back up should do the trick. I find this more failproof than resetting the PRAM.

Sorry, I glossed over that. That did the trick. How weird. Thank you.

Glad that works for you too 🙂

Bought a new iMac 21.5" with Trackpad from the Apple Store yesterday for my Dad and Safari hung up.

Had to reboot the System.

Today my Dad called, because the problem occured again. Told him to reboot and it worked for then.

That's really annoying, the thing was € 1.299,00!

This worked fo me:

- Close Safari

- Quit Safari

- Shut down the mac and then switch on again

-Open Safari

I know this sounds ridiculous but it actually has worked for me. I was having real trouble with this proble.

Hope it works for you!

Have you tried putting your Mac to sleep and waking it up again?