Force Touch trackpad stopped working

What I did was I shut down my Mac. After that I went into settings, turned off force touch, then turned it back on. Worked like a charm, hope this helps! 🙂

Thank you for your suggestion Wingo2298 H. McErnestway12456738790, I will keep it in mind if the problem recurs.

Another thing I want to put on record, in connection with this issue, is this. When the force touch stops working what also stops working is the 'click slider' in system preferences for trackpad. It can't be moved - mine was always on medium - neither to light nor firm. It gets stuck on its current the setting! Very strange.

I let the 14 days from the day of purchase window for exchange pass because I don't suspect hardware to be at fault. But Apple should be aware of the problem and provide us with the fix.

I have the same problem. The issue happens regularly when I hold the laptop on my knees. But when I keep the laptop on a table (or any other flat surface) it works well.

Hi All

I bought a brand new MBP 15" with dedicated graphics and 1tb SSD Drive, after just 3 days of use the haptic feedback stops, albeit the track pad works regardless. Unfortunately I was travelling outside of UK and could not do a 14 day return. The feedback works for a few clicks when I do a shut down and restart but it stops. I have also installed windows 8.1 bootcamp, it doesn't work - if I do a shut down and restart it works. I have going over all the solutions and replies to this problem, looks like it's a random issue with the new force touch-pad, but it is worry some. Apple should seriously look into.

Here's my two sense, as a Apple Certified Mac Tech.

Force Touch is related to power settings so shutting down and powering back on will temporarly fix the issue but then it will most likely return.

I would suggest to anyone have this issue to do a System Management Controller (SMC Reset): Resetting the System Management Controller (SMC) on your Mac - Apple Support

This resolved the issue on my Macbook Pro 13" 2015

Hope this helps.

October 4, 2015. Looking for new developments in this topic: Force Touch trackpad stopped working

I purchased a MBPro 15" retina, std base model, and having the same issues as other posters. Here's my $0.02:

1. When MBPro left in sleep mode, wake up (opening lid), reveals a non clickable, non tracking FT track pad.

2. I have the FT track pad disabled, when my Apple mouse is present.

3. "Restart" does fix the problem.

4. When I turn off Apple mouse, FT track pad becomes responsive again. (only after restart, not wake up)

5. I have "clicking" set to touch only, for ease of use

6. Issues were present prior to OS X El Capitan downloaded Oct. 2

7. When unresponsive, the FT Track pad feels "locked out". It's as if the gears, under the pad, are locked in the upward position.

Note: I highlighted #2, because, off the bat, the most reasonable explanation is that the FT Track pad is waking up looking for the mouse, instead of defaulting to itself. It's the same type of response you get if...let's say... I were to turn my mouse on right now... FT track pad locks out.

PS: I posted this here as a courtesy, for those who don't know, Apple rarely, if ever trolls these forums for fixes/answers/issues. I will send a copy of this post to Apple as well.

New development after a lengthy chat with Apple support. Here's the first fix I'm attempting:

System preferences-->Bluetooth-->Advanced...... Uncheck box for "Bluetooth Set up Assistant".

It's my theory that upon "wake up", Bluetooth Set up Assistant is searching for bluetooth devices, rather than defaulting to the Force Touch Track pad. This would explain why the track pad is locked out, as if the Apple mouse is already connected. Will follow up on this troubleshoot accordingly.

-Paul

This did not work.

New MacBook Pro Retina 13 Early 2015

After upgraded to OS X El Capitan from OS X Yosemite (came preinstalled on my Mac), my Force Touch Trackpad not working at option -> Preview any file. I did reset the SMC, but the same problem.

Can someone help me?

Having much the same issues:

- Most time Keyboard is also unresponsive

- Only started happening to me AFTER El Capitan

- System restart sometimes fixes the issue other times I'm getting a message that my Keyboard and Mouse / Trackpad isn't found

- SMC reset worked for a day

- Seems like only happening after prolonged sleep but also random

After Multiple calls to Apple Support I brought the Macbook Pro 13" (Early 2015) to a local apple authorized centre. They checked connections and reset the battery and SMC. Worked for a day and now having the same issues again. Going to return it back to the repair centre and see how it goes from there...

Apple has been trying hard to be just as faulty and buggy as all other manufacturers, so they wrote bugs into OS X, as it seems.. 😐

This happens when you come back from Clamshell mode or use a magnet to turn off MBP screen. Sometimes MBP decides not to re-enable force touch.

Update on my issue - it was 100% hardware. The cable from the logic board to the trackpad (and from there the keyboard) was malfunctioning. Because of that the trackpad and keyboard started to work intermittently. Just a coincidence that it was at the same time I installed El Capitan.

I recently noticed this happens to me, most frequently, when I stow my MBPro in a carry case. Maybe it's the rugged movement that trips a safety protect feature, or maybe I'm too rough when I set it down...not sure. Do you, or does anyone do that often?

I had the same problem on my Mid-2015 MBP, yesterday the track pad turned solid, clicking was impossible.

Resetting the PRAM cured the problem (at least for now), so for readers of this thread who haven't tried that yet, give it a shot.

This issue came to my MBP mid 2015 15" right after updating to 10.11.4 El capitan. I bought this macbook only one month ago. Feeling bad for Apple's QC