Silent click not working

Let me preface this with the fact that I tried booting in checking and unchecking silent click in settings, restarted, shut down and rebooted, making a guest account, booting in safe mode, resetting NVRAM and resetting SMC. None of those things worked.

What finally did work was deleting the preference file (.plist) file in the preferences folder. This is the file that stores your settings for the trackpad. To accomplish this, do the following:

1. From the OS X Finder, hit Command+Shift+G to bring up “Go To Folder”
2. Enter the following path: ~/Library/Preferences/ and choose Go
3. Locate the following files manually, or use the Search box in the upper right corner and narrow down for ‘driver’ to find them – remove the ones that are relevant to your issue:

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.trackpad.plist - Magic Trackpad

com.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist - Magic Mouse

com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist - wired USB mouse

com.apple.AppleMultitouchTrackpad.plist

com.apple.preference.trackpad.plist

Now just reboot. With a reboot the Mac will rebuild the preference files for the input devices that are in use, and, hopefully at least, the erroneous tracking or clicking behavior will be resolved.

Remember, by ditching the preference files you’l lose customizations made to things like tracking speed, alt-click, gestures, and clicking behavior, so you’ll want to go back to the appropriate System Preference panel and reconfigure any specifics you had beforehand.

This worked for me:

I unscrewed every screw and screwed it again and continued with the next screw.

Make sure you tighten every screw.

I noticed this before:

When I turn my MacBook Pro 2015 15" upside down and perform a click on the trackpad, most of times it is silent as usual (I was lying in my bed to do so ^^). Also, when you uncheck the 'Silent Clicking', the clicking is a little different to the not working 'Silent Clicking'.

It is like whether or not 'Silent Clicking' is enabled, there is an extra sound of a click, the 'not working click'.

I think the trackpad had a little bit space, that this additional 'not working click' appears.

I hope I can help 🙂

Mine had the same problem while I was playing around with the options, it stopped working once I disabled it and won't start working again when I enable it.

But it's back to normal again after a restart, super glad it did!

This worked for me, too.

• Placed one finger at the top, middle of the trackpad (touching, not pressing).
• With another finger, press the middle of the trackpad.

Strange, but it worked.

Thanks!!

happened to me just now as i'm writing this. very annoying once you're used to silent clicking

i dont have mine with me but there must be a setting under system preferences > accessibilty

have u checked it

yes, the setting has never been ticked off, kinda weird how it just stops working

My MacBookPro just trackpad just suddenly began clicking loudly. Exact same problem. I guess it happened when i picked it up and moved around.

Same problem here.

I have the same problem. I was working on my macbook pro 13' early 2015 and from one click to the other it started to be loud, although the option "silent clicking" is selected.

Does someone found a solution?

At the same time f.lux also started to get on and off. Now f.lux is working normally but my trackpad has still noisy clicks.

Same issue.

That's happen when I install OS X Server and after uninstalling this feature still not working. I reinstall El Capitan and then it's start working. But I needed to install server again and silent clicking not working again.

Eventually it started to work again. I haven't done anything; one morning my silent click was back.

Exact same problem on my 2015 15 inch Pro. Silent click stopped working last night, then worked again for a little bit. It's off again now. I double checked my preferences, and even tried toggling the silent click. Still not working...

Wanted to let you know I fixed my problem by placing one finger at the top of the touchpad and then click with another one. I know it sounds very strange and I cannot validate it but if you experience this problem, try doing some multi-finger gestures etc to see if it works.