Force Touch "clicks' not working on latest Macs

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@AmberV

This isn’t the case in Scrivener. In fact, if it’s enabled, you can no longer do “three finger taps” to activate lookups…

Is that not the source of the problem right there? Keeping in mind that I am on 10.10 (I have no way of testing the hardware on 10.11 at this time), if I set the look-up gesture to three-finger tapping, and enable Force, the latter does not do any look-up in TextEdit or Scrivener. If I set the look-up gesture to Force, then it works just fine in both programs (do test with TextEdit on your system as well as both use the same Mac text editor).

As an aside, by default Ctrl-Cmd-D will look-up whatever word is under the mouse, or if the mouse is invisible, whatever word the insertion caret is around. Does that fail to work for you as well?

Default under 10.11 (on this 2015 Macbook) is Force in all applications. It doesn’t work in Scrivener. So the lookup can only be activated via key shortcut or right-click context menu as you say.

Re-enabling 3-finger-tap seems to disable Force in all applications, but the means I don’t have to go through the context menu or use the key shortcut.

So I guess I’ll switch force touch back on as I love it in other applications. For now, in Scrivener, I’ll train myself to use the keyboard short cut