Applications losing focus

[circatee]

On macOS the past few weeks, I’d be typing in Apple Notes and randomly, the application would lose focus. Thus, all the characters I typed, until I noticed it lost focus, isn’t in Apple Notes.

This issue of applications losing focus is happening on virtually all applications on macOS. Additionally, when the application loses focus, it doesn’t even switch to another application, it simply isn’t the active window that I was working on.

How to resolve this? Thanks

 

[Bigwaff]

How to resolve this? Thanks

Disable Stage Manager in Settings > Desktop & Dock. If already disabled, try enabling it.

 

[circatee]

Disable Stage Manager in Settings > Desktop & Dock. If already disabled, try enabling it.

I tried this earlier this morning. For the remainder of the day, I feel it did not lose focus on the current app in use.
Let's see how tomorrow goes.

Thanks for the tip!

 

[circatee]

It still does it from time to time. Albeit, not as often as before...

 

[Brian33]

Back in Nov2022 I made a post describing a method (originally posted by others) to find what application or process was "stealing" focus away from other windows. It apparently helped a number of people. I don't know if it still works in Sequoia, but I expect it would. It involves some Terminal commands.

See:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/active-window-loses-focus.2321723/?post=31742015#post-31742015

It was interesting to see the variety of "culprit" apps. There were quite a few, different apps for different people: Logitech software (for a few people), Jabber, Corel, TestFlight, Parcel, Overcast, Popclip, a homemade script, CoreServicesUIAgent, and Finder (the last two requiring further investigations).