If you've just switched to the Mac, you may find yourself a bit confused by how the Mac's mice and trackpad work.
The Mac famously doesn't come with a mouse or trackpad that has a distinct right mouse button, but that doesn't mean you can't right-click on the Mac. Whether you use the built-in trackpad on your Mac laptop, a Magic Trackpad, a Magic Mouse, or a third-party mouse that has a distinct right button, here's how to enable right-click menus on your Mac.
How to right click on any Mac
Regardless of how your Mac is set up, holding down the control key on the keyboard and pressing your primary mouse or trackpad button will open a shortcut or contextual menu, providing the same functionality that most Windows switchers are accustomed to seeing from a right click.
If you have a third-party mouse that has a right physical button, macOS should recognize the button and map it accordingly after you plug in the mouse. If you like having a different button as your right-click, you can customize which button is primary — left or right — in the Mouse system preference pane.
You may also want to check your third-party mouse maker's website for Mac drivers. Some of the better ones, like Logitech, offer very sophisticated tools for programming not only buttons, but other great functionality like optic tracking speed and acceleration, scroll wheel motion, chording, and more.
How to turn right click on for a Magic Trackpad or MacBook trackpad
The “right click” on Mac opens up a new level of interaction using the contextual menu. For example, it is the right click which gives is various options in Word files like cut, paste, change the font, and find synonym word. Without the right click, various features become inaccessible. Hence setting up the right mouse settings is very.
Technically speaking, the Mac refers to the right-click as a “Secondary Click” but some users colloquially refer to it as a Right Click or Control Click or a two-finger click because those are other methods to achieve the same result. How to Right Click on a MacBook. Steve Jobs famously hated buttons, so all Apple products are a bit light on use of them. If you have recently started using a Macbook, you may be wondering how you are supposed to right-click when there are. One way to right click on a Mac is to press the Ctrl (or Control) key when you tap the mouse button, or the trackpad. Don’t confuse the Ctrl key with the Alt (or Option) key.
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Once it's activated, you'll be able to right click by tapping the trackpad with two fingers simultaneously. You can change the preference to click in the bottom left or right corners, if you prefer.
How to turn right click on for a Magic Mouse
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Updated May 2019: Current through macOS Mojave.
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