I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)
The trackpad is so huge and so sensitive that all the time when I hit the spacebar it clicks the mouse. I have turned up the click force to the maximum setting.
It moves the cursor maybe 5 times an hour. It's driving me nuts!
What can I do?
How do I disable clicks on the top centimeter of the touchpad?
Change trackpad settings
To adjust the pressure you need to click your trackpad, follow these steps.
To turn off Force click, deselect the “Force Click and haptic feedback” checkbox. This will disable the functionality described in the Trackpad preferences pane.
A few of the examples of what you can do with a Force click only work if "Force click with one finger" is active. You enable or disable this in the "Point & Click" tab under "Look up & data detectors."
On Mac notebooks made before 2016, you can turn off the sound of your trackpad's click by selecting Silent clicking.
I've used a lot of trackpads; this is the only one that has this problem. It's obvious why: it's too close to the spacebar because it's pointlessly large, that coupled with the over sensitivity brought on by the loss of actual clickyness.
Also, other people have the problem:
trackpad MacBook Pro 2016 too sensitive
"Accidental trackpad input" on a MacBook 2015 12 while typing
cosmotic wrote:
I have a MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2016)
It's driving me nuts!
You can always get a external wireless Keyboard and a magic trackpad2
It's a large trackpad, yes.
I did a quick search online for keyboarding posture recommendations. Spurious inputs aside, most guides appear to recommend that your wrists be floating (or be otherwise supported) above the keyboard. I guess I'm subtly suggesting that you might be typing a little unconventionally, but in reality, I have no idea, and please don't take this as any kind of personal attack. Here's an example of one of the many keyboarding guides online:
I'm typing this on my own 13" recent-model MacBook Pro which, like your computer, has an expansive trackpad. Personally I'm a fan of it because it has lots of space for gestures/scrolling/clicking, etc. I've never had an issue with inadvertently clicking or moving the pointer while hitting the space bar.
Heh, give Apple more money to tote around bulky hardware to meetings and starbucks? 😉
As I said in my original post, it's already on the firmest setting.
It sounds like a user interface problem—you may have to refine your technique around the keyboard and trackpad.
Feel free to submit Apple Feedback http://www.apple.com/feedback
My macbook pro is constantly cicking when I didn't click
