Since I updated to a M4 mac on release, BTT does not automatically start for me.
I have it set to automatically start in general in the settings panel. It seems to be completely ignored; I’ve gone from macOS 25 to 26 and had this symptom seemingly follow me.
I’ve added it to ‘Open at Login’ in Settings’ ‘Login Items & Extensions’ panel, No effect.
Is there something obvious or magic I’m missing? Am I the only person with this problem?
That’s the one I assumed would make it automatically start, but it doesn’t!†
On my old Intel MBP, this was the setting I was also using, where it worked. Could there be something else interfering with it, or is there another way I can launch it from the terminal to add in through Lingon? Is there anywhere it dumps startup failure logs?
(I’m running other things that remap and fiddle with input, but mostly use BTT to get the window resizing and move features on trackpad and keypress)
† or it is starting, then invisibly failing - I suspect the this, because if I run it from Spotlight it runs fine.
You could check whether there are crashlogs in the macOS console app's crash report section, in general there is not much that conflict with this. Adding it to Login Items manually is not required.
Thanks. I can see one crash, but it’s not from when I was starting it up.
I didn’t think there would be anything it could really conflict with either, but why it’s consistently (not!) doing this stumps me completely. That it happens in the startup process makes it harder to observe as well.
If you want you can send the logs from ~/Library/Application Support/BetterTouchTool/Logs to me (andreas@folivora.ai). They should at least show the starting up and might contain errors that would happen during startup.
Thanks Andreas - I’ve sent a .zip to scratch your head over.
