How to drag and drop with Magic Trackpad 2?

I had 'Tap to Click' enabled in my trackpad settings in System Preferences.

Since it is so easy to 'click' on the new Magic Trackpad 2, I found that when I unchecked 'Tap to Click', that my trackpad no longer seems to get confused as to my intentions when I manually click on something. When I click and drag now, it will drag the item to wherever I wish.

But since the 'Tap to Click' setting has LONG been one of my favorite trackpad options, I re-enabled it.

It seems to be working ok on my system (dragging and dropping).

For those times when it does not work, I will lift my hand far away from the trackpad (after selecting the items that I want to drag) and then come back in and physically click on one of the selected items and drag it to where I intended.

I think the trackpad is so sensitive to touch that sometimes even when your finger is not physically touching it, the trackpad detects it as a click if you have been using it to drag or select/deselect a lot of items.

If not, I think that unchecking 'Tap to Click' in the trackpad settings may help. I haven't touched any trackpad settings in Accessibility at all so am leaving them at their default state.

Mark, thank you, this solved the issue for me. Using my Magic Trackpad 2 I was able to click and drag with the same finger, but what I was used to before was clicking and holding with one finger and moving the file with another one, which wasn't working for me initially. Now I did what you suggested, lick click to select, release finger, and then light click again, and use a second finger to drag. And lo and behold, now when I do what I always used to do on my Air, light click, hold (without releasing), drag with second finger, suddenly works! Frustrating issue, I was worried I'd have to return the Trackpad or get used to the inferior way of drag and drop.

Uncheck the box as shown below and the drag and drop problem should be solved.

This works like a breeze after I changed the click intensity to Firm. Only problem is that we have to apply more force to enable a force Touch difficult...

Step 2 opens the associate app 75% of the time (roughly). And that's "pressing" wth Force Click on or off.

Like others it was fixed by turning off Force Click. No issues at all since then.

It's 2017, 2 years after this problem was first reported and it still happens. That's pretty weak.

The solution is actually quite simple. Cmd + click the item to drag and drop.

Turning off Force Click made no difference for me - it only removed the sound that's inaudible in most ambient conditions and the haptic feedback I can't detect most of the time anyway.