4 finger gestures are not working

any way i can enable them, if they are disabled, or reset the settings or something?

If in fact, they are disabled you can go into System Preferences > Trackpad and check the boxes under 4 Fingers.

Were they working yesterday and not today? Sometimes if your fingers dry out the trackpad won't recognize the touch. Just moisturize your hands.
Or if they are "slimy", the trackpad has problems registering your touch. Wipe your hands off.

If the gesture suddenly stopped working without you turning off the feature then it's been a reported problem by users on the Apple official forums. Not everyone is having the problem and it seems to happen randomly. I have this problem occasionally with 3 and 4 finger gestures not working from start up. What I have to do is either restart the computer or log out and log back in. Hopefully this problem will be fixed in the next OS update. The problem started to happen for me after I did an update about the Airport card or something related to Airport.

MYmacROX said:

If in fact, they are disabled you can go into System Preferences > Trackpad and check the boxes under 4 Fingers.

Were they working yesterday and not today? Sometimes if your fingers dry out the trackpad won't recognize the touch. Just moisturize your hands.
Or if they are "slimy", the trackpad has problems registering your touch. Wipe your hands off.

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yea i don't think there's a check box for 4 finger gestures under the trackpad settings. there's just a demo video of how it works when you put your cursor over it.

and yea the gestures were working fine up until like 2 days ago. i don't think my fingers are messed up lol. 2 and 3 finger gestures work fine, and just to make sure i used 3 fingers on the right hand and 1 finger on my left and expose and 'hide all windows' don't work.

restarting my mac doesn't help =\

doanut said:

yea i don't think there's a check box for 4 finger gestures under the trackpad settings. there's just a demo video of how it works when you put your cursor over it.

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I have two check boxes for 4 finger gestures. One is for Expose and the other is for switching applications. Do you have the older laptops or do you have the newer unibody ones?

doanut said:

and yea the gestures were working fine up until like 2 days ago. i don't think my fingers are messed up lol. 2 and 3 finger gestures work fine, and just to make sure i used 3 fingers on the right hand and 1 finger on my left and expose and 'hide all windows' don't work.

restarting my mac doesn't help =\

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Try going to the Apple icon in the top left corner and logging out and then log back in. That usually works for me. Restarting doesn't always work for me either.

i have a unibody macbook.

loggin out n in didn't work either haha.

Mine did this for the 1st time after watching a dvd on Saturday night. Only 2 finger scroll worked . I restarted it and it worked fine again.

doanut said:

yea i don't think there's a check box for 4 finger gestures under the trackpad settings. there's just a demo video of how it works when you put your cursor over it.

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Does this look familiar?



BTW, Doesn't matter if you have unibody or pre-unibody. Depends on your OS.

i'm runnin 10.5.8
and there aren't boxes to check under 3fingers and 4 fingers o.o

i am running 10.5.8 and i don't see this option, i have the old trackpad option screen still with only 2 finger options

MYmacROX said:

Does this look familiar?

BTW, Doesn't matter if you have unibody or pre-unibody. Depends on your OS.

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That is not the problem >.< Mine is not working and look at my settings.

As I did this the trackpad started working again. Try to go with the pointer to every corner of the screen. It may help. That's what happened with me, even though I'm not sure that's why it started working again