When you sit in front of a MacBook for the first time, and you’re a Windows user, one of the first things you notice could be “this trackpad has no buttons!”.
Then you find that you can push a little stronger everywhere on it to click, and the question becomes: “ok, that was a left-click, how do I right-click with this thing?”.
Fortunately, the answer is easy, but if you don’t know it, you can spend a long time figuring it out. Let’s see together how to do it.
There are 2 simple answers to the “how to right-click on a MacBook” question:
- You can hold the <control> key on your keyboard and click on the trackpad. The control key transforms the push on the trackpad to a right click.
- Alternatively (and this is probably the easiest solution) you can just press the trackpad, but with two fingers instead of only one. So you always push on the trackpad, but one finger means left click, two fingers means right click.
Obviously, if you have an external mouse you will probably have two buttons, so it’s everything like windows. Even with a magic mouse, you can click on the right side of it to make a right-click.