How to disable trackpad haptic feedback on Mac

If you are one of the individuals who owns a newer MacBook, or if you are one of the owners of the Magic Trackpad, then you are surely aware of the response that the trackpad makes after you press it. This is an interesting response that manifests itself in both vibrations and sound. For most users, this response is absolutely key to the comfortable use of the MacBook. However, there are also individuals who may not like the trackpad's response at all - the engineers at Apple thought of such users as well and added an option to the preferences with which the trackpad's haptic response can be deactivated. This means that there is no haptic response when you tap the trackpad. In this article, we will show you how to activate this feature.

How to disable trackpad haptic feedback on Mac

If you don't like the haptic response of the trackpad on your macOS device and would like to turn it off so that it doesn't show up, it's not difficult. The procedure is as follows:

• First, in the upper left corner of the screen, tap on icon .
• Once you do so, select an option from the menu that appears Preferences system…
• This will open a new window containing all the sections for editing preferences.
• In this window, find and click on the column with the name Track pad.
• Now you need to move to the tab above Pointing and clicking.
• At the bottom of the window, then pay attention to the function Silent clicking.
• If you want to disable the haptic feedback of the trackpad, then this activate the function.

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So you can set the trackpad not to give haptic feedback when you tap it, as above. If you don't mind the haptic response and just want to change its strength, then it's not complicated. You just need to move to System Preferences -> Trackpad -> Pointing and Clicking, where you will find a slider in the middle of the window A click. Here, you just need to set one of the three click response strengths – weak, medium and strong. In addition, you can also set here pointer speed.

Discussion of the article

[Jarda]

what to do if I only have the speed of the pointer in the settings and there is no click function?