Mouse cursor is flickering a lot on my MacBook Pro

When I take my cursor to the search thing on safari it starts to flicker a lot. It also happens when I am watching any thing and I click on play/ pause icon. It happens on all links, or icon that have some hyperlink. I have attached a video of it as well.

https://vimeo.com/637242507


Please help.



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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.6

Posted on Oct 20, 2021 3:01 PM

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Oct 21, 2021 12:16 PM in response to MehulJaiswal

Hello MehulJaiswal,


It looks like your cursor is flickering unexpectedly when using the search bar in Safari. We’d be glad to assist.


Firstly, does this also occur when you start your Mac up in safe mode and in another user account?


Let’s ensure your Mac is fully updated as well:

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Cheers!

Oct 29, 2021 8:38 AM in response to Ben_Z1

This is also happening to me. I updated a few days ago to latest OS Monterey- and the problem has started On SAFARI 15.1.

It is not happening on Chrome or Opera browsers.


So basically - the Arrow Cursor is interfering graphically with the correct icons on SAFARI. I will explain the problem completely - It is an instant flickering (or perhaps "jittering") between the hand and ARROW cursor, or between the Type icon (the vertical stroke icon) and ARROW cursor. Depending in what you are hovering over, a hyperlink or text input box.


It's a reoccurrence of an old Mac OS problem, that re-occurs on many new Mac OS intermittently. The last time it happened to me I was on OS Snow Leopard more than ten or so years ago, its so deeply ingrained. I think there was some kind of Terminal-based solution. Ideally most people won't want to use Terminal to "rewire" the OS so soon after a pure upgrade.


What is the solution to this? And its root-cause please?

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