Force Touch trackpad stopped working

I came home this evening to find that no haptic feedback is occurring when I click with my Early 2015 13" Retina Macbook Pro. I've only had it for 3 days.

Thankfully, I can still click because I had "Tap to click" selected under System Preferences > Trackpad > Point & Click.

Changing Click Pressure in the same window did not turn on haptic feedback. Deselecting and selecting "Force Click and haptic feedback" did not turn it back on. I have also logged out and restarted to no avail. Even in the screen to select the user to log in as, no clicks are registering. I have to type in the first few characters of the user name I want to login as for it to even select.

Am I stuck with returning this machine?

MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 15, 2015 8:20 PM

51 replies

Nov 7, 2016 3:53 AM in response to jbjose80

I just had the same issue. Shutting down then turning back on fixed the problem. Restarting did not fix it.

Thanks for the tip jbjose80.

moberh

Level 1

4 points

Nov 28, 2016 1:50 AM in response to jbjose80

Same problem for me on a 13" retina MBP early 2015, running OSX 10.11.6

This happened first for me today, after using it for 8 months. I was streaming a video via VLC, browsing Safari, and had 2 idle virtualbox sessions then closed the lid. On opening the lid the next day, the haptic feedback and force touch failed.

Shutdown + Start fresh resolved it. I checked the process list ("ps -ef") before and after the shutdown, but could not see any obvious process that would have crashed before and run after the shutdown. Fortunately I had "tap to click" on. I couldn't find any HSSPI errors in the Console Logs, where would these show up ?

Luyefar

Level 1

12 points

Dec 27, 2016 3:43 PM in response to Rokotyan

Same problem here. Stops taptic feedback when on uneven surface, most of the time on my lap. Did you find out why?

Mar 15, 2017 1:26 PM in response to digitalelise

Macbook Pro 13" Retina Summer 2015.

Reseting the SMC worked a treat.

Thanks digitalelise

dr_chuy

Level 1

4 points

Jul 6, 2017 7:36 AM in response to digitalelise

This worked perfectly!

I'd tried all the other suggestions concerning shutting down and turning the haptic option off and on and nothing worked. This did the trick!

Thanks!

Jul 21, 2017 6:59 PM in response to jbjose80

Whoa, I had the exact same issue and result. Restarting didn't fix it, but turning it off and on did.

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