Trackpad dragging

[TimoThespian]

After a nuke & pave of my 2013 MacBook Pro running Catalina 10.15.7, I went to System Preferences to set up my trackpad settings. One of my favourites seems to be missing, being able to drag with two fingers just touching the trackpad (not pressing down on it). I had it set up before the nuke & pave running the same operating system. Where could it have gone? Does anyone have a work around? I would love to get this function back.

 

[TimoThespian]

Found it! Three finger dragging needs to be turned on in Accessibility of System Preferences, not Trackpad. A little unintuitive maybe, but it's there.

Turn on three finger drag for your Mac trackpad - Apple Support

The ability to drag items using a three-finger gesture is an option for trackpads that support Force Touch.

support.apple.com

Cheers!

 

[IWT]

Well done. And thank you for your courtesy in giving us the solution which could help others.

Ian

 

[pigoo3]

Thread moved to better area (Notebooks).

- Nick