At this poin, the Magic Pad is usable-ish, although I did find that tracpadmagic.com's drivers help considerably. TrackPad Magic's drivers may cost $9.40 but are well worth it to give trackpad users basic control. Once you double click the apple magic trackpad driver will get installed and you will be able to run it on windows machine with Windows XP, Vista and Windows 7 [ Source Digital Inspiration ] If you like this article or this article helped you, you can +1 to recommend this article on google plus. An Apple Magic Trackpad / Magic Trackpad 2 connected to a PC (or to a Mac running Windows 8 / 10 via Boot Camp) supports only the basic features for 1 and 2 fingers, just enough to operate as 2-button mouse with a scroll wheel.
This project implements Windows Precision Touchpad Protocol for Apple MacBook family/Magic Trackpad 2 on Windows 10. Both USB and SPI trackpads are supported.
Future Plans and feature tracking
Use the Azure DevOps Board to track feature and device support plans. Bug reports should go to Github issues.
See it in action (YouTube video)
Apple Magic Trackpad is an excellent state of art hardware. However, it was very difficult to use Apple Magic Trackpad properly in Windows 7 due to virtually non existent good driver program for Windows Operating System. We have found a German geek, who has developed a nice.Net based application to.
T2 devices
I got my T2 MacBook Pro :) Work is in progress. Eventually all USB devices will use the km driver (not only T2).
Sep 18, 2011 Driver for Apple Magic Trackpad with Win7 I have an Apple Magic Trackpad and connected it my Dell Latitude Laptop running Win7 64-bit OS. Only the basic function of moving the mouse on the screen works and none of the better features work. This page contains information about installing the latest Apple Magic Trackpad driver downloads using the Apple Driver Update Tool. Apple Magic Trackpad drivers are tiny programs that enable your Touchpad hardware to communicate with your operating system software.
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A better installation guide
https://www.reddit.com/r/bootcamp/comments/c4alv2/how_to_install_mac_precision_touchpad_better_than/ - thank you Azmat
USB-based model Installation
- Go to the release tab in Github and download the newest version
- Open the zip and navigate to
Driversx64ReleaseSigned
- Go to
AmtPtpDevice
directory - Right click
AmtPtpDevice.inf
and install it - Confirm driver publisher
SPI-based model Installation
- Go to the release tab in Github and download the newest version
- Open the zip and navigate to
Driversx64ReleaseSigned
- Go to
AmtPtpDeviceSpiKm
directory - Right click
AmtPtpDeviceSpiKm.inf
and install it - Confirm driver publisher
Apple T2-based model Installation
- Disable Secure Boot as temporary mitigation: Boot with Command + R, select Startup Security Tools and disable Secure Boot (No Boot Security)
- Go to the release tab in Github and download the newest version
- Open the zip and navigate to
Driversx64ReleaseSigned
- Go to
AmtPtpDeviceUsbKm
directory - Right click
AmtPtpDeviceUsbKm.inf
and install it - Confirm driver publisher
For developers
- SPI version is kernel-mode driver, using KMDF Framework v1.23. Windows 10 Driver Development Kit Version 1803 is required for development and testing.
- USB version is a user-mode driver, using UMDF Framework v2.15. Windows 10 Driver Development Kit Version 1803 is required for development and testing.
Note: I plan to target a higher version of KMDF and drop UMDF later this year.
Device support
There is a bring-up issue for certain MacBook Pro and MacBook Air. I am looking into it. If you have such device with Windows installed, please contact me so I can look into the issue remotely (as I don't have many devices).
- Non-Retina MacBook
- Some non-Retina MacBook Pro (2011 and 2012)
- MacBook Pro with Retina Display (MacBookPro 10,1, MacBookPro10,2 & MacBookPro11,1)
- All recent MacBook Air (Please report if your model is not supported)
- Apple Magic Trackpad 2 (Not stable)
- MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2013, 2014, 2015, 13-inch & 15-inch)
- New MacBook (12-inch)
- MacBook Pro 2015, 2016, 2017
- (Work in progress) T2-based devices: MacBook Air 2018, MacBook Pro 2017/2018/2019
Roadmap
- Touchpad Device Power Management
- Touchpad Protocol Stack Implementation
- Touchpad Raw Input Output (in Driver Trace)
- HID Protocol Implementation (PTP Touch)
- HID Protocol Implementation (Configuration)
- Device Test (Magic Trackpad 2)
- Refine input experience (tip switch detection and pressure)
- Refine input experience (gesture experience)
- More Models (I need donation)
- SPI
- KM Driver cross-cert
Acknowledgements
People familiar with me know that I don't use Apple MacBook (so development work of this driver occurs on a Surface Pro 4). People probably think it doesn't make sense that I started this project. The motivation behind this project origin from complaints from my girlfriend. Hearing about frequent complains about Dell XPS 13's touchpad (though it passed Precision Touchpad certification), I decided to start this project, so by the time she switches to MacBook Pro, she will have excellent touchpad experience out-of-box, even on Windows. This driver is made for you, but also for everyone.
I would like to thank projects like magictrackpad2-dkms and macbook12-spi-driver that inspire me. I would also like to thank my friends for providing me immense help on devices and testing.
Windows Driver Update Downloads
License
Apple Magic Trackpad Driver Windows 10
- USB driver is licensed under GPLv2.
- SPI driver is licensed under MIT.