OS X Mountain Lion: Use an Apple wireless trackpad

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Use an Apple wireless trackpad

The Apple wireless trackpad supports all of the trackpad gestures available on Apple portable computers. The wireless trackpad is larger than the trackpad on portable computers, so you have more room to perform gestures. You can rest your fingers anywhere on the trackpad while performing gestures.

The battery level is displayed in the lower-left corner of Trackpad preferences.

If you’ve never paired your trackpad with your computer, you need to pair it before you can use it. The trackpad connects to any computer that has Bluetooth. For more information, see the documentation that came with your trackpad.

Here are some ways to use the Apple wireless trackpad:

  • Use one finger to point, tap to click, drag items on your screen, and secondary click.
  • Drag two fingers up, down, or sideways to scroll in an active window.
  • Use two-finger pinching to zoom in or out on PDFs, images, photos, and more.
  • Use two-finger rotating to rotate photos, pages, and more.
  • Swipe up with three or four fingers to enter Mission Control.
  • Swipe left or right with two or three fingers to quickly page through a document or move to the previous or next photo.
  • Swipe left or right with three or four fingers to move between apps in full screen.
  • Pinch your thumb and three fingers to display Launchpad.

Adjust the settings of the wireless trackpad

Choose Apple menu > System Preferences, and then click Trackpad.

Use the slider to adjust tracking speed.

Use the checkboxes to select the gestures you want to use.

Last Modified: Sep 4, 2015
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