M1 Trackpad Performance

[tclessard]

Is anybody else experiencing a jittery cursor/skipped frames/occasional jumping with their M1 MBP trackpad?

I moved from a 2020 Intel MBP to a 2020 M1 MBP and within minutes noticed a lag/skipping effect that wasn't present using the Intel. The "skipping" happens very frequently and across apps/independent of the workload.

I returned the initial M1 I purchased thinking it was a faulty machine, but the issue persisted with my replacement and now on the newest Big Sur update. I haven't been able to find anybody else mention this issue so I'm a bit confused what's going on here.

 

[deeddawg]

No issue here, has been as smooth as silk on my M1 MBP. Came from 2020 Intel MBA and 2018MBP15. Also have external Magic Ttrackpad2

 

[cjhmr]

Is anybody else experiencing a jittery cursor/skipped frames/occasional jumping with their M1 MBP trackpad?

I moved from a 2020 Intel MBP to a 2020 M1 MBP and within minutes noticed a lag/skipping effect that wasn't present using the Intel. The "skipping" happens very frequently and across apps/independent of the workload.

I returned the initial M1 I purchased thinking it was a faulty machine, but the issue persisted with my replacement and now on the newest Big Sur update. I haven't been able to find anybody else mention this issue so I'm a bit confused what's going on here.

I'm not sure because my last MacBook was a 2013 MacBook Air and trackpads were very different back then, but the palm rejection on my new M1 MBP has been terrible. Often times the cursor will just stop moving, and I need to pick my hand up and put it back down on it. I also tried an M1 MBA for a week and it didn't seem as bad.

 

[tclessard]

No issue here, has been as smooth as silk on my M1 MBP. Came from 2020 Intel MBA and 2018MBP15. Also have external Magic Ttrackpad2

Interesting, thanks.

 

[Zazoh]

Take it to Genius Bar. Mine is smooth and smooth on Magic Trackpad in clamshell.

 

[KPOM]

Interesting, thanks.

No issues with me, either. Other than the fact that the M1 is so much faster at everything I’ve thrown at it, I can hardly tell the difference from my previous MacBook/Air/Pros.

 

[jozero]

I am having a strange issue where a command click doesn't work. The trackpad is not pressable in the lower right, which is where I usually click, but only if I have a modifier key pressed

 

[LFC2020]

No issues, base model M1 pro, smooth as butter.

You have Chrome installed?

Apparently chrome has caused some issues for a lot of people, made their Macs lag and heat up.

I will consider Chrome a malware from now on..

For a while, on multiple OSs I have found Chrome performance quite disappointing, and I quite strongly dislike (hate?) the UI and the way Chrome works. Firefox is my primary browser and I use Safari (Mac) or Edge (Windows) for media. No streaming sites of interest work on Linux/BSD anyway so...

forums.macrumors.com

 

[anubis1980]

I am wondering what you have installed. Does it do it from a completely clean install with no additional programs installed? are you wearing any magnetic jewellery ? might sound strange but I work in IT and when I was on 2nd line we had issues with people with magnetic clasps on jewellery affecting windows pc trackpads and turning off screens just a thought .

 

[ElBerserko]

Do you have any 3rd party USB-C dongles or display adapters plugged in? I had a very similar issue with a knock-off of the Digital AV Multi-port adapter on my 2018 MBP. Although I just recently started using it again on the 2018 MPB and it hasn't occurred again. I seems to work fine on my M1 MBA, but haven't logged a whole lot of time with that adapter on that machine yet.

 

[Leon88]

I am having a strange issue where a command click doesn't work. The trackpad is not pressable in the lower right, which is where I usually click, but only if I have a modifier key pressed

I have a similar issue that occurs only when a key is pressed. The top part of my trackpad won’t register taps after pressing a modifier key. I’m unsure if this is a software bug or perhaps hardware related? It’s really odd because everything else works just fine except after pressing a key

 

[mrstucci]

I am having the same issue with my M1 MBP (16GB, 1T).

 

[Leon88]

I am having the same issue with my M1 MBP (16GB, 1T).

Apple's sending me a replacement unit. I'll update once I received it

 

[Leon88]

Update: Received my replacement unit and it has the exact same issue. This makes me believe that its actually an intended behavior or perhaps specific to the M1 MacBooks. It's odd because my old 15" 2017 MacBook Pro never had this problem. Apple tech support could have saved me time if he just did a quick test on an M1 machine. There wasn't a point in me returning my original MacBook to Apple.

 

[Quackers]

Maybe you could run the hardware test.
Shutdown the machine.
Press & hold the power button until the options screen shows.
Press CMD & D keys to begin.
See if any errors show up.

 

[Leon88]

Maybe you could run the hardware test.
Shutdown the machine.
Press & hold the power button until the options screen shows.
Press CMD & D keys to begin.
See if any errors show up.

I did and no errors showed up. I think its an intentional behavior related to palm rejection when the keyboard is in use.

 

[KronCarl]

Hello there, I got the same Problem.
It is every 10 min or so, I am doing nothing special to get the workload up and the Mouse is giddering behind my movement.

 

[Andropov]

Just FYI, mine had this problem for a couple months, but it was solved after a macOS update (don't remember which one).