click away
— phrasal verb with click uk/klɪk/us/klɪk/verb
to press the buttons of the keyboard repeatedly while using a computer:
In the newsroom, reporters answer phones and click away at their computers.
If a machine, clock, camera, etc. clicks away, it makes a repeated short, sharp sound while operating or being operated:
The clock clicks away at the Kennedy Space Center.
Camera phones clicked away, trying to get a close-up shot of the president.