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OSX Series - Apple Mac Wireless Trackpad Insanity Solved

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Ok, so my wireless trackpad is kind of like my sword, shield and helmet, if i happened to be a Roman Legionary soldier.  I think that makes it clear, it must work well, or life is not good.  I use ZOOM all the time with my BOSE QC 35...  the best headphones I have used yet... However... I noticed that when i am using the BOSE with bluetooth on my 2019 MBP, along with wireless keyboard and trackpad, the trackpad performance was terrible.   Accuracy of movement and clicks was hit and miss, mostly miss.   What is going on?  I used this for months without issue, then suddenly I have problems.  It turns out there was a simple fix... "I am still on Catalina 10.15.7, here was my fix:" Open "System Preferences" Click on "General", look near the bottom and ... unclick "Allow Handoff between this Mac and your iCloud devices" This immediately improved my trackpad performance. Now I keep this disabled during ZOOM calls, and re enable it as required when I wa