PC users who also own Apple MacBook or iMac with Magic Trackpad probably aware of the default two finger scrolling feature of Mac. That is, while using Mac, user needs to use two fingers to vertically or horizontally scroll a webpage or window.
Safari swipe back hangs Hi I've just come across this issue again. Swiping back in Safari locks that window and one has to relaunch Safari to browse to another page. I noticed, however that some other gestures (not in Safari) were not working too. This points to a trackpad/bluetooth issue (I have a magic trackpad).
I disconnected and reconnected the trackpad via the bluetooth menu on the desktop. And the problem went away. Although this is only a way to get out of the situation, I hope this helps some.
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Click to expand.Thanks for that link. This helped fix the problem for me, I will explain what I did from that link that helped me. My Background: I have been having a similar problem as reported in this thread. I recently updated (an update installation not a clean install) to Yosemite from Maverick yesterday on Oct. I have a 2013 Macbook Air.
My Problem: When I was in Safari or Firefox, the two finger scroll worked fine initially. However, as soon as I tried to swipe right to go back to the previous page Safari and Firefox would stop responding to the scroll and swipe gestures on the trackpad and I would have to use the arrow keys to go up and down the page. The functionality would only temporarily return after I closed and reopened the programs.
I didn't take a screen shot before I found a fix to this problem but it looked like, on the left of the Safari browser, I could see a centimeter of another page behind the page I was viewing and this 'double screen edge' would not go away even as I navigated to different pages and even though I only had one tab open. What Fixed it for Me: This is what I did that, so far, has fixed this problem.
As I was able to replicate my problem previously and now that I can no longer replicate it, I consider this a 'fix' for me. (All of my trackpad functionality has been working for the past couple of hours): After I went to the page linked by boball: I looked at the 'alternative work-arounds' link that one of the posts referred to, which led me here: This page refers to resetting the preference options for 'BetterTouchTool, MagicPrefs.' I just use the default touch controls built into OS X, but I thought turning off all of the touch preferences and then turning them all back on might do something (plus it seemed like the least invasive method to try first.) So I went into the trackpad settings in system preferences and I un-selected all of the options under 'Point & Click,' 'Scroll & Zoom' and 'More Gestures.' I then closed the window and reopened it and reselected everything under those categories (I prefer to have them all selected for my computer use) and presto it seemed to have fixed the problem. Post Script: I hope this helps someone, I apologize for the long post but I thought if I was as clear as possible, in regards to what I did, it may be more helpful to everyone. Thanks to everyone who posted, you all helped me a great deal. I too had the same a centimeter, of the previous page or so it seems, left behind on the left side of the page, when I did the back swipe, and after that scrolling and other gestures would stop working on that page/tab.
Funny thing is the problem came back for me a few hours later after the cache emptying seemed to have work. And then I had to keep either emptying cache again and restarting the browser / reloading that unresponsive page again, in order to get the page to scroll normally again (double finger scrolling on the trackpad). However, today now everything seems to be fine.
Everything is working fine as it should. And I didn't do anything, it's all just working as normal, right now. Thanks for that link. This helped fix the problem for me, I will explain what I did from that link that helped me. My Background: I have been having a similar problem as reported in this thread. I recently updated (an update installation not a clean install) to Yosemite from Maverick yesterday on Oct.
I have a 2013 Macbook Air. My Problem: When I was in Safari or Firefox, the two finger scroll worked fine initially. However, as soon as I tried to swipe right to go back to the previous page Safari and Firefox would stop responding to the scroll and swipe gestures on the trackpad and I would have to use the arrow keys to go up and down the page. The functionality would only temporarily return after I closed and reopened the programs. I didn't take a screen shot before I found a fix to this problem but it looked like, on the left of the Safari browser, I could see a centimeter of another page behind the page I was viewing and this 'double screen edge' would not go away even as I navigated to different pages and even though I only had one tab open. What Fixed it for Me: This is what I did that, so far, has fixed this problem. As I was able to replicate my problem previously and now that I can no longer replicate it, I consider this a 'fix' for me.
(All of my trackpad functionality has been working for the past couple of hours): After I went to the page linked by boball: I looked at the 'alternative work-arounds' link that one of the posts referred to, which led me here: This page refers to resetting the preference options for 'BetterTouchTool, MagicPrefs.' I just use the default touch controls built into OS X, but I thought turning off all of the touch preferences and then turning them all back on might do something (plus it seemed like the least invasive method to try first.) So I went into the trackpad settings in system preferences and I un-selected all of the options under 'Point & Click,' 'Scroll & Zoom' and 'More Gestures.' I then closed the window and reopened it and reselected everything under those categories (I prefer to have them all selected for my computer use) and presto it seemed to have fixed the problem. Post Script: I hope this helps someone, I apologize for the long post but I thought if I was as clear as possible, in regards to what I did, it may be more helpful to everyone. Thanks to everyone who posted, you all helped me a great deal. Hey boball, I'm glad it seems the functionality has returned for you. So far my trackpad hasn't had any issues in either Safari or Firefox after I reset those preferences I outlined above (I know what I did was a bit different than what you did).
I used my computer for around 8 hours yesterday after I found the 'fix' that worked for me. Now it has been about 24 hours later and my trackpad continues to work even after shutting down and restarting my computer a couple times. I'm not sure why what I did seemed to have fixed my trackpad issue, Im not sure what the background activity is that makes unselecting and reselecting those preferences fix my issue. Perhaps unselecting and reselecting those options, as I did, also reset some sort of cache similarly to what you did. But I'm getting out of my knowledge depth with that last sentence, I don't know if that's an accurate explanation of what happened, maybe my actions just scared away the demon that was living in my Macbook Air.
Scroll and swipe gestures not working in Safari Hi, gestures in Safari are not working for me either. I have the latest update of Yosemite ( 10.10.1 ) running on a 2012 MacPro Retina laptop.
When I open safari, scrolling works, but as soon as I two finger swipe to the left to go back a page, the page starts to slide over to reveal the previous page but gets stuck almost immediately showing a tiny slither of the previous page to the left of the window. It sticks there and then two finger scrolling or any other gestures just stop working.
Restart Safari and scrolling works again until you side swipe. Ive tried turning gestures on and off and ofcourse a few restarts but no joy. Is anyone else experiencing this? Hi, gestures in Safari are not working for me either. I have the latest update of Yosemite ( 10.10.1 ) running on a 2012 MacPro Retina laptop. When I open safari, scrolling works, but as soon as I two finger swipe to the left to go back a page, the page starts to slide over to reveal the previous page but gets stuck almost immediately showing a tiny slither of the previous page to the left of the window. It sticks there and then two finger scrolling or any other gestures just stop working.
Restart Safari and scrolling works again until you side swipe. Ive tried turning gestures on and off and ofcourse a few restarts but no joy.
Is anyone else experiencing this? Click to expand.Hey Dom, I hope your doing well but I'm sorry to hear you are having the same problem I had a short time ago. I feel that your description very precisely describes the same issue i previously had, although since my previous post it has been fixed for me. What I outlined in my previous post was what worked for me but from what I recall from looking through some other help websites there were a few alternative things other users tried which may have solved this problem in a slightly different way. So I will just put down below some of the alternate techniques you can review and consider trying if you haven't done so already. I'm sorry if I don't provide a direct fix for you but as you can tell by my previous posts in this thread I am still a Mac novice in terms of these kinds of topics. But I'm glad you posted on this thread that you were having trouble.
Hopefully we can help you out and in turn your post will help other people as well. And perhaps this may get the attention of someone more knowledge who can provide additional guidance if my suggestions don't work. This website outlines a technique I didn't try that might he helpful. Click to expand. This is the website I previously looked at that gave me the idea to go into my System Preferences and to Disable all the Trackpad options and then to re-enable them. This worked for me, however, if I understand your post correctly, Dom, you have already tried this and it didn't work. But the post also mentions using a couple different third part software tools to manage the functionality of your Mac trackpad.
You may have a preference to want to use the native functionality within your mac as I do but using one of these tools may at least be a temporary fix until the native trackpad functionality is restored. Also another thing I would consider is to download one of these tools and get it working on your Mac. Then uninstall it and go back to using the native trackpad software controls. I know this sounds kinda strange but I am thinking that by doing this your native trackpad functionality might get 'fixed.'
I am again out of my depth in trying to explain why, but my sense is that doing this kind of thing might 'reset' your trackpad capability which was the idea behind my 'fix' of turning off all the trackpad preference options (within system preferences) and then turning them back on (which worked for me.) These are the two third partly trackpad tools you might review: Magic Prefs trackpad preference manager Better Touch Tool trackpad manager It is my hope that trying one of these things will help restore your trackpad functionality. I probably don't need to say I am not a Mac expert and that these are just my best guesses of things that might help you.
So I would suggest reviewing them and then trying whichever one you think might work best based on your own situation and judgement. If I were you however I would try the first suggest to empty the cache of Safari and if that didn't work then I would try the PRAM 'hard' restart before I tried the third party software. I would also encourage you to keep checking online for other solutions if none of this stuff works for you.
Also you might try contacting Apple support if that is an applicable option for you. Im not sure of all the ways one might contact them for this but as lengthy of a process as it might be, if its an option that is available for you, it may end up being quicker than scouring the internet for a community generated fix that will work for you. I don't have an active Apple support plan so I chose to scour the internet. Hang in there, if you try any of these suggestions please let us know what worked or what didn't. Hopefully your input will help add to the body of information on this issue for other users.
How to Tell What Type of Trackpad You Have Figuring out what type of hardware you’re using is extremely simple—just type mouse into the Start Menu search box, or head into the Mouse section of Control Panel. Once you’re there, head to the Hardware tab, and you’ll be able to see what type of pointing device you’re using.
You can probably also see an icon in your system tray for the pointing device you’re using—thankfully. Enable Two-Finger Scrolling with Synaptics Drivers Your laptop probably has the default drivers from Microsoft or the drivers for your laptop vendor—for instance, if you’ve got a Dell laptop like the one I’m typing on, it has Dell-branded versions of the Synaptics drivers, which may not support two-finger scrolling. It’s worth taking a trip into the Mouse settings to see if there’s an option, but otherwise you’ll need a different solution. The actual Synaptics drivers from their site natively, so what you can do is simply install those instead of the drivers from your laptop’s manufacturer. Head to the the, install them, and reboot your PC. Now when you head into the Mouse Properties window in Control Panel, you’ll see a Device Settings tab, where you can click the Settings button to get into the advanced settings page.
Head to Scrolling – Two-Finger Scrolling on the left-hand side, where you can enable vertical or horizontal scrolling with two fingers—you’ll probably want to enable the EdgeMotion setting as well, which keeps scrolling when your fingers hit the edge of your touchpad. You’ll probably want to also check out the Pointing – Sensitivity settings and do some tweaking there—if you’ve got the PalmCheck feature or the Touch Sensitivity cranked up too far, the scrolling won’t work well. It’ll require some testing, but you should have two-finger scrolling. You’ll probably also notice that the drivers enable Pinch Zooming, and they even let you do three-finger gestures. Sadly they work better in theory than in practice, but you’re encourage to experiment to see if you like them. Enable Two-Finger Scrolling with a Freeware Add-on If you’d rather not mess with your drivers, there’s another add-on that works, though it only works for Synaptics touchpads. After doing a lot of testing, we’ve actually found that this is a preferable solution that works really well.
You’ll need to, extract the zip file somewhere safe that won’t be deleted by accident, and then just launch the utility. Once you’ve done that, you’ll see a new icon in your tray, where you can quickly enable or disable the scrolling, and more importantly, head into the Settings. The Settings panel’s Scrolling tab has a couple of options that you’ll want to tweak—set Scroll type to Linear, and Scroll mode to Smart. This will enable significantly better scrolling than the Compatible mode.
If you click the Help link you’ll see a popup dialog that explains how each one works—the important one is Smart mode, which actually does smooth scrolling mode most of the time, until you hold down Shift+Ctrl+Alt while scrolling, and then it switches into Compatible mode for that single application. This is a great way to get the most of both worlds—if the regular mode doesn’t work, like for older applications, you can use the hotkey sequence to enable compatible mode, which should work.
You’ll probably want to head to the General tab and make sure that it’s also set to start up with Windows. We tested both of these techniques on a Dell Studio 1555 laptop, with great luck—the TwoFingerScroll utility worked a lot better than the Synaptics driver method, but your mileage may vary, or it might not work for you at all.