Is there a way to turn off haptic feedback and keep force touch on?

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Is there a way to turn off haptic feedback and keep force touch on?

The new force touch trackpad on the Macbook Pro works amazing for drawing with pressure sensitivity with only a dumb rubber stylus. It can replace a pen tablet. However haptic feedback is really annoying when drawing. There is a haptic feedback toggle in the trackpad preferences, but it turns off the pressure sensitivity.

Does anyone know of a terminal command to switch off only the haptic feedback so the trackpad can be used as a pen tablet?

P.S. The Preview app works surprisingly well for sketching. I don't think Affinity Designer or Photoshop supports the trackpad yet for pressure sensitivity.

MacBook Pro, OS X Yosemite (10.10.2)

Posted on Mar 18, 2015 1:42 AM

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JJ2342

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Apr 26, 2015 12:34 PM in response to Fix The Bugs Please

There is no way currently. Pogo released an app that emulates your finger or stylus as a Wacom pressure sensitive pen, but it is unusable as it treats the Force Touch trackpad as a tablet that can track the movements of the stylus, so you always are off target when you initially touch the stylus to the trackpad. The emulation part works wonderfully though.

Apple dropped the ball by not understanding how this technology would actually be used.

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