This setting effectively reduces the volume of the audible simulated “clicking” tone you hear when pressing on your Force Touch trackpad and makes it so you more or less just feel the haptic feedback. Now that you have the Silent Clicking option enabled, your Mac’s trackpad will now click much more silently than it did with the option turned off. To disable the simulated clicking on your Force Touch trackpad, follow these steps:ġ) Launch the System Preferences app on your Mac and open the Trackpad preferences pane.Ģ) Next, you will make sure you’re in the Point & Click tab, then put a check mark in the box labeled Silent Clicking: On the other hand, some might wish to disable the simulated clicking sound since it’s not an actual click. Overall, most people probably don’t mind the fake clicking sound, as it gives the Mac that same surreal and realistic sound effect a normal trackpad would have. In this tutorial, we’ll talk about how to disable that fake clicking sound.
It has no down travel and all you’re hearing is an audible sound when you click it. If your Mac is frozen where it isn’t responding to any keyboard presses or the trackpad, you’ll have to use the un-safe, force shut-down method. If your Mac won’t start up, use our troubleshooting guide. Every Mac equipped with a Force Touch trackpad produces an audible ‘click’ sound in order to simulate the sound you would hear on a Mac without a Force Touch trackpad. As you learned above, you can turn on your Mac again by pressing the Power button.
