Some Force Touch gestures stop working (2016 MBP 13-inch w/ Touch Bar)
Something strange sometimes happens when I'm working on my 2016 MBP 13-inch w/ Touch Bar (Mac OS 10.13.4). I don't know exactly why, but occasionally certain gestures (i.e. pinch to zoom in and zoom out, force touch over a word to open the dictionary) simply stop functioning until I lock and unlock the laptop. Other gestures (mission control, move across desktops) keep working. This happens to all the apps I try to use (Safari, Word, Pages, Ulysses, Mind Node and so on). I can still use keyboard shortcuts to perform those actions.
As I said, the only solution I could find is to lock and unlock the laptop or just reboot it, but I would like to know if there is a better, permanent fix to this issue.
Sometimes my touchpad getting mad, click force is strange, sound is also strange and force touch isn't working mostly, till until restart. It hardly seems like a software problem, so whenever you restart everything works fine.
The problem occurred much less times after i did a following things:
- Clear NVRAM
- Install every available Software Updates
- Also make sure to clean your touch pad and it's borders, sometimes it can lead to an issue
Also, most of the time that problem occurs after sleep/hibernation, so most likely it is software problem.
I had a similar issue where three-finger-swipe gestures stopped working. Either deactivating and reactivating these gestures in the system settings or putting the Mac to sleep solved that problem.
It turned out that the window manager "Magnet" caused the issue for me. When I quit Magnet, the problem doesn't occur anymore (Credits to minimalmo at Reddit).
Edit: I asked the author of "Magnet" if this issue could be fixed, but never received a response. I tried "BetterSnapTool" as an alternative, which seems to work well.