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by jonny_eh 2189 days ago
Agreed. It strikes me as odd that Apple hides this ability deep in the Accessibility settings.
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mikewhy 2189 days ago
It wasn't always relegated there, and had a more prominent place right in the trackpad settings.

Probably related: right around when the setting was moved deep into accessibility, Finder started having issues with three-finger drag.

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vetinari 2189 days ago
Because it changes the gestures for workspace switching / expose. They are no longer three-finger, but four-finger, thus more difficult.

I'm in the group that gladly foregoes three finger drag, if it means we get to keep other three finger gestures.

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FillardMillmore 2189 days ago
When did switching workspaces become four-finger? Meaning you can't use the three-finger option? Catalina? I have a MacBook Pro on Mojave and the trackpad accepts three-finger for the gesture of switching workspaces and the Magic Mouse has an option for two-finger.
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vetinari 2189 days ago
When you enable three finger drag, all the other gestures will switch to four finger.

Disabling the tree finger drag is not enough to return everything back, you have to configure that in separate control panel.

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FillardMillmore 2189 days ago
Might just be that most general users don't have a need for that?
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