# How to Middle-Click on a Mac Trackpad

Updated: November 3, 2026

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In the settings of [Supercharge](https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge), set “Simulate middle-click with trackpad gesture” to a gesture, like “3-Finger Tap”. Then the gesture is a middle-click in all apps. Without an app, Command-click a link to open it in a new tab.

## With Supercharge

1. Open [Supercharge](https://sindresorhus.com/supercharge), and give it the access that it asks for in [“Device Control and Data Access”](https://sindresorhus.com/apps/faq#device-control-access).
1. Open the Supercharge settings, and click “Tweaks”.
1. In the Experimental section, choose a gesture in “Simulate middle-click with trackpad gesture”, like “3-Finger Tap”.
1. 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.

## 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 Command+W.

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.