Trackpad gestures no longer work with Sierra

Immediately after upgrading to Sierra, the regular trackpad gestures that I had previously used with OS X have stopped working on my Macbook Pro. These include the 3-finger drag, 4-finger swipe up to open mission control, 4-finger swipe down to open the App Exposé, and the 4-finger swipe left/right to switch between desktops.

I have checked in the trackpad section of System Preferences, and all these gestures are enabled and should be working fine, which leads me to believe that it is a problem with macOS Sierra.

Has anyone experienced anything similar and/or found a solution for it?

(PS. Yes, I do use Better Touch Tool, but that does not provide a satisfactory solution)

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Posted on Sep 23, 2016 4:27 AM

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elz_dad

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Posted on Nov 1, 2017 4:09 AM

I've had this issue (the main one I notice is "Swipe between full-screen apps") the last few upgrades I've done, most recently to 10.13.1. Enabling/disabling the checkboxes in the "Trackpad/More Gestures" tab, and/or switching users, didn't work for me.

I noticed that Mission Control didn't seem to be working: I have my bottom left corner as hot corner for Mission Control, and moving the cursor down there did not invoke it. So I did a

% killall Dock

from the terminal, which causes the Dock (and, apparently, Mission Control) to restart. After that, both Mission Control and my trackpad gestures came back.

I am not certain if that's the "right" thing to do, but in case it helps...

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Modoc99

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Jul 20, 2017 3:54 PM in response to actionmarker

This worked for me!! Move this solution to the top of the page!

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Trackpad gestures no longer work with Sierra