Force Touch Trackpad input while typing

Very creative solution!

I wanted to try this, but my graphics go screwy in Safe Mode, blinking every time I type a letter. There's no way I could work in Safe Mode, so I can't try to reproduce your experience.

It was suggested to me by an Apple Genius to boot into Safe Mode as way to troubleshoot to determine what third party app may cause the problem. I had one possibility which I first disabled at startup and then completely uninstalled. The problem persist. Another suggested that I created a new user account and to see whether the problems continues. Needless to say it did not make any difference. I am not sure what else to do. See my thimble trick above 😝

this is very neat and would be the best solution so far, (especially as Apple can't find a fix...) but ...if you run it in Automator it works fine but running it outside automator from a shortcut results in "Workflow error" on my system (El Capitan 10.11.4) and i can't ( don't know how) to uncover what that refers to ? It even works if you close the script in automator and hit the shortcut, i.e. with automator still open. But not outside automator. Curious if you have run it without Automator open?

I thought that I'd share my latest experience in the hope that I have found a permanent solution to this problem. What I did was to connect a bluetooth magic mouse to my MacBook 12 inch and used it to do some word-processing for short. I managed to complete a whole page without encountering the accidental input problem. I disconnected the mouse completely (deleted it from my bluetooth devices option in System Preferences), opened another document and tried out the some more word-processing. Two pages of text without a single skip! The accidental input problem seems to have miraculously disappeared! I restarted the computer just to be sure and can confirm that I am still typing away happily without the irritation of the mouse cursor moving all over the place. Please post your findings if you find this work-a-round useful.

Just got off the phone with apple support. Their solution was that I should change the position of my hands while I type. Amazing...

You're holding it wrong! 🙂

I join the rest of the folks on this thread with my disbelief that this issue has not been solved. This is very frustrating. I can hardly type a sentence without the cursor jumping out out of the app or selecting text and overwriting it. I don't have it on my personal MBP which is a few years older. I just got this late 2015 MBP for work three months ago and I am thinking of just changing back to my ThinkPad. I don't have time to retype every third sentence I write. The trackpad is integral functionality in the use of the laptop and needs to function properly. I don't really buy into the story that it is another application causing this but even if it is there should be a way to track which applications are overwriting the functionality of the trackpad drivers.

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Why do you have to change the way you have been using Apple MacBooks for years. It is an absolute disgrace that Apple has not fix this issue yet or even just acknowledged that it is there.

I bought the **** thing in April 2015, and I am cursing the day I did. cannot write a single effing email without having to correct / retype 5 times. I have a claendar event to visit this board regularly, and none of the suggestions have worked for me (except I did not try the rubber thimble). Shame on you apple, shame on you, shame on you.

I am sorry to disappoint you, but none of the so-called solutions in this thread actually work. I know, because I have diligently tried each and every one (except the rubber thimble, which I consider to be a bridge too far). Given that Apple in turn either denies the problem exists or offers useless suggestions as resolution", I say it is time to revolt. If someone on this thread knows how to start a signature campaign to protest directly to Apple (rather than complain amongst ourselves without Apple taking any notice, or evidently, not even caring), I am willing to put some time and even some money into starting a fix-this-thing-now revolt, I am just sooo fed-up.....

adding my voice. Have recently upgraded from my trusty early 2013 MBP Retina 13" to a new MBP 15" and it's nearly impossible to type without the cursor running all over the place in text boxes and documents. It's clearly a problem with the touch/palm rejection on these new trackpads. Never ever had this problem on the old 13". This is the type of problem you get on a Windows laptop, not an Apple device...

I think our best hope at this point is that the upcoming MacOS Sierra will have a fix for this.

I am old enough to remember when manufacturers would at least admit that there is a problem, and spell out what they will do about it. Here we are on this thread a year on, and we still do not know what Apple's position is. We all individually set up appointments with this or that genius, get the guts ripped out of our machines to effect alleged fixes that don't work, etc. If Sierra is indeed going to fix this problem that renders the machine utterly and completely useless, then Apple should chime in and say so. If not, we are all sitting around the ring master waiting for him to throw us a bone whenever he feels like it. Never again, goodbye Apple. I will join the masses who buy cheap and nasty stuff and don't mind much when it does not work, rather than paying over GBP 3,000 for for cheap and nasty Apple stuff that don't work.