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Trackpad
Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 19 threads.
People raised many different problems with Trackpad, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.
The newest 19 complaints
- Scrolling with the trackpad on a lap is awkward and unnatural in hand and arm position2026-10-28
- Cursor lags behind trackpad movement and scrolling feels catchy and imprecise2025-12-28
- Drag and drop is awful to perform on the trackpad2023-07-15
- Hard-to-discover multi-finger gestures feel non-intuitive to use2022-06-15
- Trackpad ignores touches near its edges, forcing hands to move too far2022-04-16
- Non-Mac touchpads are far behind and nearly unusable for most users2021-11-28
- Resting a finger on the cursor to hover triggers an unwanted click2021-11-03
- Can't right-click one-handed or work out how to middle-click on the trackpad2021-11-02
- Trackpad sits under wrists and gets triggered while typing2021-08-05
- Cursor overshoots targets near the top of the screen unless moving very slowly2021-08-05
- Trackpad is awful to work with compared to touching the screen2021-06-24
- Trackpad unusable under Linux without lots of low-level parameter tuning2020-07-09
- Trackpad is completely unusable compared to the MacBook's2020-06-25
- Other laptop touchpads feel less smooth and precise, making them unusable to the commenter2020-05-04
- Trackpad was too slow and annoying to use2020-03-20
- Trackpad accidentally moves the cursor when the user brushes across it2018-07-05
- Scrolling with the trackpad requires tiny, cramped finger motions2016-12-20
- Scrolling requires knowing a two-finger gesture, which is unintuitive and inconsistent2011-05-20
- Trackpad scrolling is not precise enough for the user2011-05-05