I love my new MBP Retina but I would like to change the amount the Force Touch vibrates. I know there are the settings called Light, Medium and Firm to change not only the amount it vibrates but also the intensity of the force required to actuate. I am wondering if there is any way to turn the vibration of the Taptic Engine up even further to receive a more tactile click. Is this possible? Can I use BetterTouchTool to achieve this result? I tried to mess around with it a little bit but I don't think it works.
MacOS – How to Change Force Touch “taptic” or haptic feedback on MacBook Pro
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I found this tool called BetterTouchTool http://www.boastr.net/
BetterTouchTool is a great, feature packed app that allows you to configure many gestures for your Magic Mouse, Macbook Trackpad and Magic Trackpad and also Mouse Gestures for normal mice. It also allows you to configure actions for keyboard shortcuts, normal mice buttons and the Apple Remote. In addition to this it has an iOS companion App (BTT Remote) which can also be configured to control your Mac the way you want.
It allows me to set a HUGE variety of actions for TONS of mouse gestures.
I am able to create actions for FORCE click on specific areas of the trackpad, and even multifinger force click. It is exactly what I've been looking for.
It is extremely useful.
My trackpad (MBP Early 2015) was working, but there was no haptic feedback, or any indication that force touch was working. Other functions (trackpad, single tap, scrolling, etc.) were working. Here's what my settings looked like:
For me, it was fixed somehow by an SMC reset with the charger disconnected, while powered on. Basically, I pressed Control + Shift + Option + Power button. The system instantly shut down without warning. Force touch and haptic feedback were back when the system turned on.
Do I recommend this? No. It's an unclean shutdown. Did it work? Yes it did.
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I think the hardware has plenty of "weight to shake things more" because on the "Firm" click setting, the Force Touch vibrates quite a bit. I just wish that that was the default level of haptic feedback. (I could do without Force Touch; I just want a really solid "click" when I click.)
I really miss the mechanical button on my old Macbook Pro.