{"id":6542,"date":"2015-05-14T12:49:33","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T19:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/?page_id=6542"},"modified":"2017-07-20T16:15:35","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T23:15:35","slug":"how-to-enable-three-finger-drag-on-12-macbook","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/tutorials-5\/how-to-enable-three-finger-drag-on-12-macbook\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enable Three Finger Drag on macOS"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Before the advent of the Force Touch trackpad on the 12" Macbook (and the new 13" Retina MacBook Pro), you could enable a gesture entitled Three Finger Drag. With that gesture, using three fingers you could touch the top bar of any window in OS X and drag the window around.  I personally prefer it because click-dragging feels like it would help to wear out the trackpad clicker.<\/p>\n

I guess with the advent of Force Touch which doesn’t have a mechanical clicker, Apple believes we don’t need easy access to this preference.  Luckily, Apple does still believe in accessibility so that’s where they hid this feature.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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On Non-Force Touch Systems – Open System Preferences<\/h3>\n
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Select Trackpad<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Point & Click Tab<\/h3>\n
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Select Three finger drag<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Not There On Force Touch Trackpad Systems<\/h3>\n
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As you can see, there’s no three finger drag option<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Select Accessibility From System Preferences<\/h3>\n
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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Select Mouse & Trackpad from the Left Sidebar<\/h3>\n
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From this window choose Tracpad Options…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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Check the Box for Enable Dragging<\/h3>\n
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And choose three finger drag from the pulldown menu.<\/p>\n

Select OK and enjoy your three finger drag!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Before the advent of the Force Touch trackpad on the 12" Macbook (and the new 13" Retina MacBook Pro), you could enable a gesture entitled Three Finger Drag. With that gesture, using three fingers you could touch the top bar of any window in OS X and drag the window around.  I personally prefer it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":4374,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[150],"class_list":["post-6542","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","tag-mac-tutorials","post"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12333,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6542\/revisions\/12333"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.podfeet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}