2016 Macbook Pro 15" Palm Rejection Issue

In my case I had to turn off tap to click AND secondary click (two finger click) settings, which seem not to have been off by default. Now the palm rejection issue appears to have gone away.

Palm rejection on the new MacBook Pro is horrible. It simply does not work, and it hasn't worked properly since the system was released. I've never had this problem on any previous MacBook Pro.

Turning off tap to click and everything else doesn't help - there is no solution to this problem. Tons of people have this problem, but still no fix.

This issue is listed as "solved" but it is is not solved at all.

Apple, please fix this!!

I found the best solution is to cut out a small piece of coffee cup sleeves and use it as a palm rest.

I am down to 2-3 instances a day of falses now after using the palm pads (above post)... 11 bucks sure... but take your pick of poisons... an unusable 3 grand machine or one that only F's up 2-3 times per day ... i'll take that one! ;O HORRIBLE DESIGN by a company that is normally pretty good on that front... just don't know what anybody was thinking ....

This is driving me up the wall!!!!

I have to wear gloves for my carpal tunnel and the trackpad is ******* me off! I can't hover my wrists because it makes the pain too much to handle, and i can't rest my hands because the trackpad does not recognize the gloves as hands.

Seriously apple, between the touch bar and the terrible trackpad... what where you thinking????

funny you said that. On a mac for 16 years. Assigned this poor example of Macbook Pro at work with loads of issues (track pad, task bar). Now using it only for work and bought a PC for home! The PC is finally better than the mac, but not because the PC got better!

Agree with your complaint. Someone at apple seems to think that if a large-ish trackpad was good, then a hilariously oversized trackpad must be better.

I tried covering the edges of the trackpad with paper but the trackpad (mis-)senses input through the paper.

Hopefully apple will put out a software update that will allow users to simply reject most of the hilariously oversized trackpad area. I dont need more than the usual small rectangle in the center of the trackpad.

Also hitting touch bar buttons by accident all the time. I basically disabled touch bar as much as possible in preferences to avoid this.

A lot of awful design decisions in this new macbook. Removal of magsafe, the new keyboard is horrible, etc.

Actually here is a solution I just came upon that helps mitigate this issue for me.

I took some electric tape and taped off the edges of the trackpad, where my palm tends to accidentally hit it.

The first piece of electric tape doesnt work - trackpad (mis-)sense through it. However a second piece of tape over the first one seems to do the trick.

I just taped around the edge of the trackpad and now my "palm rejection" is much more satisfactory thanks to a physical barrier blocking off most of this hilariously oversized track pad.

It also peels off pretty easily and has not left a mark on the machine either (I peeled off once just to see).

Hopefully this may help others as well.

Now if I could figure out how to block off accidental input to the touch bar, that would be excellent so I could use it without accidentally sending off emails I am in the middle of composing, etc.

This is my temporary workaround.

I disabled the trackpad whenever I had an external mouse or the apple bluetooth trackpad connected. Palm detection now becomes a thing of the past. However, I still tap on the touch bar buttons periodically even while simply tapping on the number rows, delete key, etc.

Once I switched to the bluetooth apple keyboard I realised just how wonderful that was and how noisy the macbook butterfly keys are.

It's just frustrating to have one issue done away with only to have a few others bear their head.

Edit:

I am experiencing a myriad of problems now with this setup.

Do not recommend.

With the original apple bluetooth trackpad and keyboard connected the entire system has started to behave erratically. Gestures are activated randomly every few seconds even with my hands off the peripherals. Screen keeps flashing due to focus constantly switching to reflect gestures being detected and apps opening here and there. It was chaos.

Removing the batteries from the said peripherals and re-enabling the macbook touchpad stopped the symptoms. So now I'm back to square one.

Further to my earlier comment, I was at Genius in order to drop off my new laptop to replace the entire "top sheet" as the keyboard is malfunctioning.

When speaking with the Genius, enquired about palm rejection. He had no solutions but did state the requests are through the roof, and it would not surprise him Apple s working to fix.....

David Pogue has an inelegant fix for this problem:

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/david-pogue-macbook-pro-apple-174918745.html

Scroll down to 'Trackpad'.

After being used to tap-to-click, having to keep it off is a drag. Hope there's a fix for this very un-Apple like problem.

I'm trying another work-around: I turned off two finger right click and turned on bottom right corner-right clicking. I still have touch to tap active. This may be helpful, at least for me, as I've noticed that the cursor is less likely to hop around to another part of the screen as I'm typing.

Shame on Apple for making me look at a PC for the first time in over a decade. I currently have 7 macs in my house, for work and personal use, and I'm actually looking at a PC....argh.

Worth a Try:

System Preferences > Accessibility > Mouse and Trackpad:

Check "Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present"

I have no mouse or wireless trackpad 'present'. (Just power and USB-C adaptor cords plugged in). But if it isn't my typing self-correcting over time, then this seems to improve the skittish cursor ailment. Will be curious if it makes a difference for others.

Yes, this problem still exists. I just got the top MacBook Pro 15” yesterday and have been disappointed in it. While turning off the tap to click might avoid the problem if you graze the trackpad at the wrong moment (the moment at which whatever is going wrong is going wrong). But if your palm hits hard enough to register a click this feature makes no difference. It’s kind of disconcerting. Assume your cursor is at or below but within the form, field, or window where you are typing. What happens then is as you type, you feel the Taptic engine fire in the trackpad and your brain goes “Oops… too many keys were pushed” and it throws you off. But if your cursor is above where you are typing or over a button or over another window, your palm will push down, you’ll feel the Taptic click, and something unexpected and undesired happens. Either you are suddenly inserting letters where they don’t belong or you’d sent your email, changed tabs, closed the window, etc. I called Apple and I believe they are looking into it. I suggest others consider calling in. They probably could use more data to figure out the circumstances in which this happens.