Issues with three finger click

Describe the bug
Since the last major update, I've been having issues with three-finger click on all my devices. I have it mapped to middle click, and I find myself needing to click 3-4 times before the middle click is actually registered. Did something change recently? I've been using BTT for over a decade and have never run into this issue before. Seeing this issue across multiple Mac devices.


Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):

MacBook Air trackpad, MacBook Pro trackback, Magic Trackpad 2


Screenshots


Device information:

  • Type of Mac: MacBook Pro
  • macOS version: 26.4.1
  • BetterTouchTool version: 6.512

Additional information (e.g. crash logs, related issues, etc.):

Is your trigger triggered? You can check in the "Recently Used" or add a HUD.

I just tried it but it is triggering everytime here. Is there maybe another app that could swallow the middle click? @xidiot suggestion is good, that would show whether the gesture is triggering or not.

You could also try the new "On Press Down" action category:

Or if you want it to behave like a real middle click that stays pressed while the trackpad is pressed:

Are you running Fadel's Mission Control Plus by any chance?

hey, I'm having this exact issue since maybe the last couple of months?

I tried to debug it by showing a HUD message and it's BTT not capturing the 3 finger clicks. When I try again, it works. There's really no pattern here, it just fails randomly. I use this extensively on Chrome and it gets annoying.

Are you using the system three finger drag accessibility option? (Drag stuff around by moving three fingers on the trackpad)
Unfortunately that one does not work well with BTT because it changes the fundamental behavior of the trackpad.

You can enable three finger drag compatibility mode, but it has big limitations.

If that's not the case, check whether any settings here might have been changed:

In general the three finger click is very reliable, it is one of the most used gestures in BTT.

Hi Andreas,

Thanks for your reply.

Are you using the system three finger drag accessibility option?

I guess you mean this one? if so, no.

If that's not the case, check whether any settings here might have been changed:

These are my settings, which look identical to yours I think.

Were you able to watch the video I posted earlier? You can see there some of my 3-finger-clicks just do not get registered for some reason.

Hi @Andreas_Hegenberg

Were you able to look into this? I'm happy to cooperate, providing any logs etc. if you need.

ah yes, I found some interesting behavior in your video related to the force timing and tried to improve that. Could you try with the current alpha version (get via "check for alpha version updates"). It might either resolve your issue or, if not, log the specific failure modes that could prevent the click. (If the alpha does not fix the issue it would be great if you'd go to Help => Export Basic Debug Logs and send them to andreas@folivora.ai )

thanks! installed the alpha (6.652) gonna report if the issues are gone.

hey @Andreas_Hegenberg after using the alpha (6.652) for a day, I can confirm the issue seems to be resolved.

Thanks!

@huseyinkeles Thank you for the debugging, and @Andreas_Hegenberg thanks for the fix! Cheers