Thursday, 20 August 2015

[Fixed] Touch screen not working in Chrome - Windows 10 & 8.1

on   in      22 comments
Windows 8 and Windows 10 has a lot of in built apps and games that supports touch events. Unlike Edge and IE which are default browsers in Windows, Chrome a browser that is not designed for touchscreens. It does not mean that it doesn't support touchscreens, but the features that supports touchscreens are hidden.

These touch screen features and add ons of Google Chrome are still under experiments and hence these features are disabled by default. This post will help you understand how to enable these hidden features. Let's start right away..
Create a new tab and type the below address in the address bar of the browser.

chrome://flags

Press Ctrl+F and search for 'touch'. This will list down all the experimental features that has the keyword touch in it.

Look for below flags,

Enable touch events

Touch Optimized UI

Enable touch initiated drag and drop

These flags are set to Automatic by default. You have to change them to 'Enabled' to make touch working properly.



For better touch experience, you may want to download Chrome Virtual Keyboard . This will improve form filling and other normal typing process inside Chrome.

I hope this helps, thanks for visiting!



Share:

22 comments:

  1. Rooty Rooty20 November 2015 at 19:41

    Thank you so much for publishing info.
    I was about to throw my laptop out of the window, if I didn't get this fixed!

    ReplyDelete
  2. SnehaPhilip8 February 2016 at 05:09

    Thank you...!! was wondering what happened to my laptop!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. sexy queen1 April 2016 at 15:49

    Thanks alot!!! Nice work, got tru quickly

    ReplyDelete
  4. satish25 May 2016 at 22:34

    thank you

    ReplyDelete
  5. Unknown14 July 2016 at 19:02

    Wow thanks!

    ReplyDelete
  6. Daman27 July 2016 at 03:33

    Thanks.Great help

    ReplyDelete
  7. Unknown30 August 2016 at 04:16

    Thanks so much :-)

    ReplyDelete
  8. Gerald Burch1 September 2016 at 17:39

    Thanks! Worked like a boss, fixing my Chrome touchscreen issues on my Surface Pro 4.

    ReplyDelete
  9. Anonymous7 September 2016 at 16:42

    You're awesome Senthil! Thanks.

    ReplyDelete
  10. Rosy Newlun19 September 2016 at 11:05

    I am clapping - thank you from Hawai'i. This problem was driving me nuts. I am not even a techy person and this worked. Can you hear me saying MAHALO and applauding? I am!! ♥

    ReplyDelete
  11. Jennifer Mardin26 September 2016 at 22:58

    Only worked for a short period of time, then stopped. I keep needing to reenable.

    ReplyDelete
    Replies
    1. francine5 October 2016 at 22:37

      Same. It doesn't make sense why it works temporarily and then just stops working. But it's happening to me, too. Any one got any ideas?

      Delete
    2. francine5 October 2016 at 22:38

      Same. It doesn't make sense why it works temporarily and then just stops working. But it's happening to me, too. Any one got any ideas?

      Delete
    3. dheeraj reddy22 December 2016 at 17:57

      Same for me also

      Delete
    4. Iyad Jabbour30 December 2016 at 05:03

      that what happened to me too

      Delete
  12. Sheeraz Saleem16 January 2017 at 15:55

    worked like a charm. Thanks.

    ReplyDelete
  13. Unknown28 January 2017 at 03:18

    thanks, this works.....

    ReplyDelete
  14. Melody jaimonau9 April 2017 at 07:01

    I will be very impress to read this informative article. " should read, "This article is quite impressive to me, My partner loves feathers. Now if I can easily just do it along with you do it may help me score some key points with her.
    144hz Gaming Monitor

    ReplyDelete
  15. Unknown10 July 2017 at 11:43

    Didn't work

    ReplyDelete
  16. roni zapplerepair19 December 2017 at 22:26

    Window Surface Pro 4 battery bloat expands pushing lcd upwards
    this the cause

    ReplyDelete
  17. Rajendra1 May 2018 at 14:46

    I want really to tell you thanks for this most helpful information.

    programmable logic controller

    tension controller

    ReplyDelete