Anything you can do about MBP trackpad sensitivity?

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I’m very, very happy with my 14" M1 Pro MacBook Pro. But there’s one thing that after all these months (got it right when they launched) I still just cannot get used to: it often just doesn’t register my trackpad taps (tap to click is on).

I have sensitivity (Settings > Trackpad > Click) set all the way to Light, but still… Every so often I’ll be editing some huge text file and can’t find the last two lines of text I entered blindly, only to then discover that the trackpad didn’t register my original tap and that therefore my entry went into a completely different section of the document. :man_facepalming:

Anything else I could do to make the trackpad more sensitive to my apparently too light taps? I do not recall having this problem on any of my 13" Intel MBPs (2020, 2016, 2013, 2010) before. Not that I’d want to trade for any of those. :wink:

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I have always had this exact same problem with my 2019 16" MBP, since day one. I have found only two things that relieve it.

One is to turn off tap-to-click and require a full audible click (which I hate). The other is to use an alternate pointing device. Which, of course, takes away all the benefits of the multi-touch trackpad unless your alternate pointing device is a Magic Trackpad or Magic Mouse.

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