Turning Off Boxed Text When Hovering

KelleyinVT wrote:

How do I disable the hover function -- highlighting text in little boxes? Earlier answer from 2012 has no bearing on current OS (my Mac is running Big Sur 11.2.2). A very annoying feature that I can't locate in prefs and which continues despite restarting. Thank you.

Can you post a screen shot or give a specific example to see...(?)

How is this an issue, a specfic application, procedure or universal;

old issue, new issue, what changed?

In System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom panel, do. you have Enable Hover Text selected?

When you click on any text and press the command activation key, this feature will show an enlarged, boxed representation of that underlying text when pressing the command key. This will be representative of the appearance mode selection, either dark text on a light background, or light text on a dark background.

Although the above zoom panel states that all you have to do is hover over the text and press the command key, in practice, or at least in macOS 11.2.3, one must actually click on the text before it will respond with the box outline.

Yes this is an Accessibility option—some how it got turned on.

That feature is called "data detectors." I don't know if it is possible to disable it. But, with the correct name, maybe you can find a way on the internet. I didn't.