Remarkably, after shutting down and leaving the machine off for 20 hours, now booting up and the trackpad is immediately responsive to haptics. Maybe something clears after a long "shutdown"? I didn't do the SMC or NVRAM reset manually. Maybe try that @rachoudz?
The same issue after 24 hours later computer was off; sometimes it worked (With a few clicks), then no response.
Mine appears to now be permanently dead. Pretty disappointed to be honest. Such a hassle to take it in for service.
Mine no longer clicks when you press it. I've temporarily resolved by turning on "tap to click", so at least now I don't need to hard press the trackpad to click it.
Have you done it in the meantime? If not, that's the first thing I did and it works perfectly since then.
Yeah, I've tried that a few times. Initially the haptic was starting to work - also sometimes on reboot - but now it is just broken permanently regardless of what I try. It went from intermittent to totally dead in the space of a few days. It definitely doesn't seem like a software problem sadly.
I‘m sorry to hear. Although you don‘t seem to have Apple Care, I‘d try contacting Apple nevertheless and then (dependent of your country) the seller as long as you are still in the 2-year period…
My guess is the early symptoms was the motor slowly failing and now it finally fully failed. I think at this point your best bet is to just contact apple. If you're fairly well versed in taking apart laptops, you may try to buy a replacement part off of ebay, but I think that poses more risks and hassles then just paying apple.
