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How to Middle-Click on a Mac Trackpad

With Supercharge

  1. Open Supercharge, and give it the access that it asks for in “Device Control and Data Access”.
  2. Open the Supercharge settings, and click “Tweaks”.
  3. In the Experimental section, choose a gesture in “Simulate middle-click with trackpad gesture”, like “3-Finger Tap”.
  4. Move the pointer to a link or a browser tab, and tap the trackpad with three fingers.

A tap with three, four, or five fingers, or a click with them, can be the middle-click. Choose a click when “Tap to click” is off, or when a tap happens too easily by accident. Lift all fingers before the next gesture.

If “Three Finger Drag” is on in the accessibility settings of macOS, it uses the three-finger gesture first. Then choose a gesture with four or five fingers.

With a middle-click, you can open a link in a new tab or close a tab in most browsers, and, with other settings of Supercharge, open a Finder sidebar item in a new tab, or hide or quit an app from its Dock icon.

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Platform
macOS
Requires
macOS 26.4 or later
Released
September 2024
Privacy
No personal data collected
Updated
September 2026
Version
1.30.1
Size
16 MB
Gumroad rating
5.0/5 (284 ratings)

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Without an app

macOS has no middle-click on the trackpad. For the most common use, a key does the same:

  • Command-click a link to open it in a new tab, in Safari and other browsers.
  • Close a tab with CommandW.

The key is good for links. A middle-click gesture also works in apps that only accept a middle-click, like some games and design apps.

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