MacBook Pro is Possessed

1

Okay, this keeps happening frequently and the only way I can resolve is either 1) wait it out 2) restart my whole screen.

Problem
When my Mac is sleeping, I wake it up and type in the password. My keyboard doesn’t type the password just the first letter or two and just flashes. I usually have to wait and it eventually with time fixes itself. Then it accepts the full password. When this happens, I know I will have this “Mac possession” case. Upon logging in, anytime I go to a window it starts randomly pinching and zooming. How do I break this cycle.

2

sounds like a bad keyboard or trackpad

3

Or the Mac is always busy doing something when it returns from sleep and stops accepting input for a while.

Easy thing to test. Log into a new user account, let the Mac sleep, then see if the behavior occurs in that new account.

4

External spinning drives can cause delays here and there (as macOS waits for them to wake up). Not sure if login would be affected.

The pinch/zoom thing is weird.