That means I can ONLY rely on the Apple Magic Mouse to navigate, which I’m okay with. I tried to uncheck that option above, and guess what…the trackpad problem appears AGAIN on my MacBook Pro. Now the erratic cursor jumping issue should disappear and you should be able to use your external mouse to navigate smoothly on your Mac. Step 1: On your Mac desktop, click the Apple logo, and select System Preferences. The Solution? It’s Oddly Simple!Ĭheck an option called “Ignore built-in trackpad when mouse or wireless trackpad is present” via the System Preferences setting. The last thing I tried but didn’t work either was performing software updates via App Store.Īll these took me a few precious hours…until I finally fixed it with a simple trick. I also disconnected my Magic Mouse, USB flash drive, and unplugged the charger.
Check out this and this article from Apple.Īnd guess what? Nope, the Mac cursor still kept jumping and clicking and moving on its own after that. In case you don’t know, resetting NVRAM and SMC is pretty straightforward. I also reset SMC and NVRAM on my MacBook Pro, thinking that would fix the issue as the symptoms I was facing were quite similar to what the Apple support articles describe.
It turned out the main drive is working fine without any problems. I then suspected my Mac internal hard drive was malfunctioning, so I went ahead and pulled out Disk Utility and several other apps to check Mac hard drive health. Around 20 minutes later, no threats were found (to my surprise). So I immediately opened BitDefender Antivirus for Mac and ran a full scan. Although the erratic trackpad/cursor issue persisted at that time, I still could perform some basic operations though not that smooth.Īt first, I thought my Mac was infected because the situation reminded me of viruses and malware issues back in the PC days.
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