Swiping between open pages not working on older MacBook Pro

I have an older model MacBook Pro and it has stopped allowing me to swipe with fingers on the mouse pad to move between pages. I have I somehow turned something off on my laptop?



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Original Title: Swiping between open pages

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Nov 3, 2025 4:15 PM

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Posted on Nov 3, 2025 6:51 PM

iscream4answers wrote:

Thank you - I looked up how to find the track pad in Preferences. Found that I was trying to swipe between pages with 2 or 3 fingers - I needed to use 4 fingers. It works great.


Good computing iscream4answers !

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Nov 3, 2025 4:42 PM in response to iscream4answers

iscream4answers wrote:

I have an older model MacBook Pro and it has stopped allowing me to swipe with fingers on the mouse pad to move between pages. I have I somehow turned something off on my laptop?


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Original Title: Swiping between open pages


look at your Trackpad settings and make some changes to compare your results.



3 finger swipe between pages for example... avoiding conflicts

Swiping between open pages not working on older MacBook Pro

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