Questions tagged [multi-touch]
Multi-touch refers to a touch-sensitive surface that can recognize two or more points of contact using a pressure sensitive-panel.
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Simulating a touch on a phone screen without a finger?
I'm trying to simulate a touch on my iPhone without actually touching it (with a finger) for an app I'm making, I already tried electricity and it didn't worked, what is the correct way of doing it?
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Can I adjust the sensitivity of 3D Touch?
I find that I have to touch more firmly than I would like to activate 3D Touch. Is there a way to make 3D Touch react to a firmer or softer touch?
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What is the difference between a tap and a click?
I can click on both my Magic Trackpad and my Magic Mouse but I can tap on neither, if my understanding is correct.
On my Magic Mouse all I can do is click. Same with Magic Trackpad.
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The multi-touch functionality from my Magic Mouse is frustrating with Google Calendar. Can I disable it?
...The tiniest swipe left or right changes the month. It makes using my calendar sooooo frustrating. Can I disable it? I would like to disable side-swiping in general. It mostly causes me frustration.
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Yosemite 10.10.4 nowhere to set three finger tap to access Dictionary
I'm in OS X, and I bought my mac from one of my friends. He bought this April,2015.
This is my Force touch trackpad. It's come from the fifth in the first picture. I know you may not understand the ...
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How to swipe up into Mission Control and then swipe back down again without lifting fingers?
Okay, weird and sort of unnecessary question, but I'd love some help if you're able.
In Mountain Lion, you could swipe up with three fingers into Mission Control and then swipe back down to exit ...
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Selecting all photos in photo booth with a single gesture
Is there a way to select all the photos in the iPad 2's photo booth application and copy them to a new/existing album? currently I need to select each photo individually by clicking (touching) it.
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Trackpad Gestures - Three-finger swipe unresponsive until I use two-finger scroll (OS X Lion)
Sometime within the last week or so, I noticed this really weird glitch with my trackpad. I have always used the three-finger swipe to navigate forwards and backwards on web browsers, between tabs in ...
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Hidden features of Safari? [closed]
While using Safari, I accidentally three-finger tapped on a link and Preview of that web page popped up, like below. I think it's pretty useful.
Do you know any other hidden features of Safari?
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MacBook Pro trackpad click
I am new to the MacBook Pro laptop. Why does the trackpad have to be pressed down to register a click, rather than just touching on the pad? Is there a way to change this? Please advise because it is ...
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Has Mountain Lion broken the ability to show Desktop with a gesture, begin dragging an icon, and unshow the Desktop?
I have just upgraded from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion. Despite my initial concerns relating to the new gestures, I am actually getting on pretty well and many of the new features are welcome.
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How to enable trackpad gestures in windows(bootcamp)
I have used Parallels. Windows installed in Parallel VM supports most of the trackpad gestures( including three finger ). How to enable them in Bootcamp version of Mac. Any external software to enable ...
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Right Click Drag with Magic Trackpad
Is it possible to perform a "right click drag" with a Magic Trackpad? What gestures/settings do I need to accomplish this?
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Recently scrolling up and down gesture triggers page change gesture
Recently my mid 2012 Retina Macbook Pro's trackpad has started exhibiting some strange behavior. Attempting to scroll up or down using the two finger gesture randomly seems to trigger the page back/...
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Importing WordPress Codex as a dictionary into the Dictionary app
I'm an avid WordPress developer, and I'm constantly referring to the Wordpress Codex to look up various functions. I recently got a new 2013 MBP, and I just found the glorious "three finger tap to ...
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How to (Right click + Move mouse to the Left) in MACBOOK PRO
I am using Genymotion and playing game: Clash of Clan. To Zoom in I need to : Right click + Move mouse to the Left. How can i do this Macbook pro retina display 15 inch. I know that tapping with two ...
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Swipe between pages button equivalent
I currently have an external, non-mac, mouse attached to my MacBook Pro. It has extra buttons that you can assign macros to, for instance I assigned the 'move left/right a space' to two of the buttons,...
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Keynote - playing slide - three finger swipe won't switch applications
When I'm in the middle of a keynote presentation playing - the three finger swipe to switch applications no longer works. When I exit playing the presentation - it works again. I run Keynote '09 on OS ...
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Windows 8 Pro on MacBook Pro 15" early 2011. Multitouch and reversed scroll?
I've installed the newly released Windows 8 Pro on my MacBook Pro, and I'd love to get multi-touch gestures working such as pinch to zoom and 3 finger middle click tapping. I'd also like to reverse ...
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Can "Multi-Touch" technology of iPhone identify 5 or 10 touches at the same time?
Let say you use your 5 fingers to touch & open 5 apps in iPhone at the same time. If that is the case, then "can all 5 apps be opened at the same time?"
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Is BetterTouchTool the recommended app to improve gestures?
I was looking for a way to add more "gestures" for my mbp (to accesss spaces for example) and I read about BetterTouchTool which seems to work quite well.
I was just wondering if there's any other ...
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Is there a way to change the gesture that invokes Launchpad?
i use launchpad quite a lot, but find the 'finger & thumb' pinch rather awkward.
i never use mission control, and would love to use the 3 finger vertical swipe for launchpad instead of mission ...
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Pinch to lock iPhone
I've been having issues with my iPhone 5's lock button recently, I'm having to press it more forcefully to get it to work. Then I saw this video and got to a part where the person does a pinch gesture ...
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Any OS X Whiteboard apps/software designed for large screen multi-monitor use?
We're looking at upgrading our static whiteboards to interactive whiteboards/smartboards, and one option is simply to buy 1-3 large multi-touch displays and hook them up to a Mac Pro, and use some ...
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Can You Turn Off Swipe Gestures On iPad 2?
I want to turn off the multitouch gestures on my iPad 2 running iOS 5. They make it very difficult to use around my child who is constantly switching apps on me or bringing up the notification bar.
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Mac mini bluetooth or multitouch failures after hibernating
I recently purchased a Mac mini and have begun having a problem with bluetooth. I've made a bunch of changes to the system all at once, so some of the information I'll provide is probably not relevant....
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Alternative to multitouch in Mavericks
I am using OSX Mavericks on latest Mackbook Pro Retina.
After a week of intensive usage I have got some pain in my fingers because of the multi-fingers scrolling (two to scroll pages, three to switch ...
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iTouch, 5th Gen., Rear-Facing Camera
Is there any way to remove the screen that is blocking the rear facing camera? Could I bring it into a store and pay to have it removed/a camera put in?
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Can I simulate multi-touch input on a Mac?
With iOS's accessibility features, it is possible to pretend the user is using multiple fingers or making certain gestures while in reality they are only using one finger.
Is there any way I can ...
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How to bring iPad's 5 finger pinch functionality to iPhone
On the iPad, a 5 finger pinch will bring you to the home screen. How can we replicate that function on iPhone?
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Selecting a minimized window in Expose via the trackpad two finger swipe gesture
Normally when you invoke expose, you can use the trackpad's two finger swipe gestures (up, down, left, and right) to highlight a window so that it has a blue border around it. You can then select the ...
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How can I enable Trackpad tap-to-click for the login window in OS X 10.8?
In older OS X versions, this used to work just fine:
defaults write /Library/Preferences/.GlobalPreferences com.apple.mouse.tapBehavior -int 1
It would enable tap to click for built-in MacBook ...
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Move quickly between pages in Safari on iOS7?
I know you can swipe from the screen edges to move forward and back in your history. I am looking for a quick way to go between the open web pages on my iPhone (without all the tapping required to ...
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How can I bind a multitouch gesture to open a file with a particular application?
I am running Mac OS X Lion. What I want is a way to open an HTML file with a particular application based on my action.
For example, the default application is Safari, so it will always open in ...
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What (un-)documented multitouch gestures exist in Lion and common applications?
Safari allows to go back to a previous website using the two-finger-swipe gesture. All of the standard multitouch gestures are very nicely documented in the More Gestures section of the Trackpad ...
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How to get the three finger 'scroll to top' back in mountain lion?
Remember in Snow Leopard there was a gesture using three fingers to scroll to the top of webpages? Has anyone worked out a way of getting that back?
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What's the touch resolution (LPI) of the Magic Trackpad?
I'd like to know how the Magic Trackpad compares with Wacom tablets as far as resolution goes. The Wacom Intuos5 line has 5080 LPI, while the Bamboo line has 2540.
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Is it possible to simulate multi-touch mouse down events?
I'm wondering if there's some application that allows you to simulate mouse-down events?
I looked at BetterTouchTool and it can bind to specific actions, but I can't do something like Hold Down a ...
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Why does text appear blurry when zooming in Safari until you release your fingers from the trackpad?
This has been bothering me for a while. When you zoom in Safari (Mac) using the pinch gesture, the text is only anti-aliased after finishing the gesture, not in realtime. Why not?
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iPod Nano 5th Gen Can't Disable Shake Gesture
I have disabled the "shuffle on shake" feature of my iPod Nano 5th gen, yet occasionally this still happens. I've noticed, for example, if I have it connected to the aux jack in my car while driving, ...
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Using all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop
How is possible send all trackpad gestures via Apple Remote Desktop.app (ARD)?
Some working, some not, especially don't works gestures:
mission control (4 fingers up)
exposee (4 fingers down)
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How do you turn Three Finger Drag on?
I'm trying to use the new "three finger drag" gesture in Lion and it's not working. There isn't a preference setting for it in TrackPad -> Point and Click either. Does anyone know how to turn it on?
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Can the Kinect be used as a control interface for Mac OS X?
Is there software and/or drivers that support using the Kinect to replicate the same behavior triggered by the Multitouch gestures? Would it be possible for me to swipe my hand leftward in the air and ...
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Is there an alternative to the five-finger swipe out gesture, allowing me to copy things to/from the desktop?
On my MacBook, I frequently end up with lots of overlapping windows on the screen, obscuring the desktop. I recently discovered the five finger 'swipe outwards' gesture that displays the desktop. ...
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Is there a gesture to navigate back to previous page in iPad 2 (or the new iPad)?
I've just bought a new iPad, but it's so annoying when I have to click the arrow on the top left of the page to navigate back and forth using Safari. I wonder is there a gesture for navigating that I'...
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Trackbar Gesture for Mission Control / Spaces: Two fingers + click
Up until Snow Leopard I was using a simple shortcut to navigate through Spaces (Desktops). Two fingers plus click would present Spaces and allow me to select desktop and/or window effortlessly. So my ...
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Dragging selected text using the Three Finger gesture
Mountain Lion here. I can select text using the Three finger swipe. But to drag that text (for copying into another window, for example), I have to resort to the old fashioned (:)) press-click-on-...
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Can Safari on an iPad be controlled with gestures?
On the Desktop version of Safari, you can navigate back and forward with a swipe gesture on the trackpad. Setting up other gestures (close tab, new tab, next/previous tab) is trivial with an app like ...
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Is Pinch To Zoom in TextEdit feature available in Lion?
In Mountain Lion it is now possible Pinch To Zoom in files within TextEdit. I think this is a new feature in Mountain Lion.
I'd like to know whether it is available in Lion?
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Is there a gesture to drag and drop with Expose on Lion?
I know it could be done by pressing F3 button while dragging an item but I really need the five-finger-gesture for that.
On Snow Leopard, I could drag an item with my thumb and then use the ...
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