[OSX-Users] Re: De-clicking macbooks

[Jules Field]

It does. Do a light tap, immediately followed by a light press-and-drag.

On 14/01/2016 09:02, Christopher Gutteridge wrote:
> I have that but it doesn't work for dragging.
>
> On 14/01/2016 08:57, Jules Field wrote:
>> And because I'm a dumb-ass, I forgot the most obvious answer, which 
>> applies to any Mac pretty much:
>>
>> In System Preferences / Trackpad, tick "Tap to click". Then you just 
>> "click" by lightly tapping the trackpad with 1 finger, no need to 
>> press it hard enough to make it audibly click at all.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jules.
>>
>> On 13/01/2016 21:50, Jules Field wrote:
>>> Buy a MacBook with a Force Touch trackpad, such as the 2015 MacBook. 
>>> They're hopefully about to extend them to MacBook Pros as well.
>>> On the Force Touch trackpad, the trackpad never actually moves at 
>>> all. All the audio and haptic feedback is "artificial", and you can 
>>> turn off the clicks in System Preferences.
>>>
>>
>> Jules
>>
>

Jules

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