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My cursor randomly disappears. Its really in convenient! 🤬 I can get it to come back if i right click repeatedly and then off click, or if i swipe up to mission control I can get it to appear. My mac is all up to date running Catalina 10.15.2

MacBook Pro 15”, macOS 10.15

Posted on Dec 30, 2019 10:37 AM

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Posted on Dec 30, 2019 10:55 AM

trackpad mouse or external?


You can narrow down the issue— To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt. Log-in and test.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 



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Dec 30, 2019 10:55 AM in response to jtonofrey

trackpad mouse or external?


You can narrow down the issue— To trouble shoot further you can:


Try a SafeBoot https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201262

Takes noticeable longer to get to the login screen, does a 5-15 minute disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, including dynamic loader cache, etc. Login and test. Reboot and test will take a little longer as caches get rebuilt. Log-in and test.

This test will tell you if third party interference; extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.


Test issue in another user (or guest user) account  https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204443

This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account. 



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