How To Drag Windows Without Clicking on Your Mac Trackpad
How To Drag Windows Without Clicking on Your Mac Trackpad
The Mac Track pad is a vital tool for some functions. One of this function is the ability to get items dragged by employing the three-finger gesture is an option that is built for the trackpads and to give support to Force Touch.
Dragging the windows making use of your Mac’s trackpad can be somehow tedious: You need to first click, hold, then drag. But thanks to a little trick known accessibility feature, you can quickly drag your windows making use of a three-finger gesture instead. Below is what you need to do to set up this feature.
How The Three-Finger Drag Works
Once you have enabled it, the three-finger drag is very easy to use.
1. All you need to do is move the cursor straight to the toolbar and gently click the trackpad with three fingers, and you will be able to “grab” the window.
2. Then, move all of the three fingers to move the window. Once the window has reached the desired place, simply lift one finger only from the trackpad, and you’ll release the window. You can make use of this method as often as you like.
Usually, it is very possible for you to enable the “tap-to-click” feature on your Mac to save yourself from the stress of force-clicking on the trackpad. But this does not work when it comes to the dragging and repositioning of windows.
How To Enable The Three-Finger Drag on Your Mac Device
Three-finger drag is a very easy tool to enable, but the way to set it is a little buried. You will first, click the Apple icon that is located at the top-left corner of your Mac’s screen and then you choose “System Preferences.”
1. Open System Preferences from Apple Menu on Mac
2. In System Preferences, click “Accessibility.”
3. Open Accessibility from System Preferences
4. In the sidebar of Accessibility, select the “Pointer Control” option. Then, in the “Mouse & Trackpad” tab, tap the “Trackpad Options” button.
5. Go to the Trackpad Options in your Accessibility
6. You will notice the small window that pops up, tap the check mark beside the “Enable Dragging,” and then you click the drop-down menu and choose “Three Finger Drag.”
7. When you’re done with this, just tap the “OK” button.
8. Now enable Three Finger Drag Gesture that is on the Mac
9. You have now succesfully enabled the three-finger drag feature. You can just move your cursor to the top toolbar (or the title bar) in any app and then drag making use of the three fingers, and the entire window will move!
If you discover that you do not like the three-finger drag gesture, it’s very easy to disable (although the option that is provided to do so is really buried):
1. All that is needed for you to do is just to revisit the Settings > Accessibility > Pointer Control > Mouse & Trackpad > Trackpad Options and
2. Then you uncheck the “Enable dragging” option. That is all there is to it.
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