macOS displaying wrong cursor most of the time

[bearinthetown]

I think this bug started with Ventura, but I can be wrong. I initially thought it was a bug in Safari, but it seems to be a universal macOS bug. So when the cursor should be something else, it would display just a regular, arrow cursor. It's frustrating for me as a web developer, because it often looks like I forgot to style an item to use a pointer or text cursor. It's so stubborn that even a refresh in Safari often wouldn't help, sometimes a second refresh would or wouldn't.

Now I downloaded a new text editor and the bug is there too. It randomly displays either text or default cursor when I move my trackpad over the text.

Anyone finds this annoying?

 

[fisherking]

not happening here. have you rebooted? you could also try going into system settings>accessibility>display>pointer size; try changing that (you can always go back to the default), see if that 'jumpstarts' things...

 

[bearinthetown]

not happening here. have you rebooted? you could also try going into system settings>accessibility>display>pointer size; try changing that (you can always go back to the default), see if that 'jumpstarts' things...

I not only rebooted, but it happens on both of my MacBooks.

 

[iStorm]

Not sure about Ventura, but it is a known issue with Sonoma. Happens to me too occasionally and will supposedly be fixed in 14.4.

Mouse pointer not changing to hand or text cursor. MacOS 14.2

Anyone else experiencing this weird mouse behavior in macOS Sonoma? I started noticing it since 14.2, but it might have existed a bit earlier. I'm now on Beta 14.3 and they still have not fixed it. My mouse pointer does not change based on the content it’s hovering over; It does not change to...

forums.macrumors.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/17p415c

 

[bearinthetown]

Not sure about Ventura, but it is a known issue with Sonoma. Happens to me too occasionally and will supposedly be fixed in 14.4.

Mouse pointer not changing to hand or text cursor. MacOS 14.2

Anyone else experiencing this weird mouse behavior in macOS Sonoma? I started noticing it since 14.2, but it might have existed a bit earlier. I'm now on Beta 14.3 and they still have not fixed it. My mouse pointer does not change based on the content it’s hovering over; It does not change to...

forums.macrumors.com

https://www.reddit.com/r/MacOS/comments/17p415c

Thank you, now that's something helpful. I'm pretty sure I experienced it before Sonoma too.