Peripheral issue - Mac now treating foot pedal as a mouse

I just spoke to a representative from VEC Electronics who confirmed that the issue of the MAC recognizing the foot pedal as a mouse is rectified by the Infinity 3 foot pedal. He explained to me that it is a matter of an upgraded chip in the 3 compared to the 2 that solves the problem. The only glitch is that the chips that are in the 3 are being impacted by supply issues. In order for them to meet demand they did furnish some Infinity 3 with the former chip, which will work just fine on PCs. He offered a way to tell if you are getting the new chip that is needed for our MAC computers. If you order the Infinity 3 MAKE SURE that it is marked as "A" and you'll know it has the right chip in it. If marked with a "B" then that is the older chip they are using. They are just starting to mail these out now, so just be sure, or you will have the same problem with the 3. Just wanted to pass along that info to further save us all a huge headache again.

I found a not (not very great) workaround: While using the pedal, the mousepointer has to placed on a window, that doesn't allow rightclicks. E. g. the software used here with the pedal has a menu window for the footpedal where rightclicks have no effects and no contextual menu appears.

So as long you don't use the mouse to navigate in your text and remember to put the mousepointer in a corner of the screen where the menu window is open when you start playback it... just works. 🤨

I have the same problem exactly. Someone from Express Scribe help asked me if I have Infinity USB-2, which I do. That person said if I purchase Infinity USB-3 that will solve the problem. I have ordered it, and if it works, I will come back and post here. In the meantime, has anyone else found a different solution?

One more workaround... turning on the alternate pointer actions allows me to raise my eyebrows to left-click and get the menu to go away (I have to have my pointer pointed on an area of the screen that will not move my cursor, such as the marginalia of my document. This works quite well.

I hope you get this fixed, but while you'd have to wipe the drive to install Big Sur, you would NOT have to go all the way back to El Capitan.

You can download Big Sur, using Safari, from this site:

Then make a bootable installer on a thumb drive, and use that to boot your mac, run Disk Utility, erase the drive, install and then migrate your accounts.

Still a nuisance, still something to avoid if possible, but still a bit less than going back to EC, and less opportunity for stuff to break.

Wish I'd read this yesterday before installing Monterey. Same problem. Same puzzlement from Apple. Out of interest, is this with many different foot pedals or one specific brand? I'm using a VEC Infinity.

I have the same foot pedal. I reached out to the manufacturer before finding this forum and they indicated that it is an Apple issue and there probably is not foot pedal to support the Monterey OS as it is so new. I've had to revert back to my Windows computer to complete the work I have. I find it frustrating as I've put all this money into a brand spanking new Mac desktop computer and I can't use it for what I purchased it for.

This is the exact wording I received from VEC. VEC also added this:

"I have heard that this issue will not occur with the new INFINITY-3USB, I am trying to confirm this and will let you know

Another user reported this,

However, the issue seems to be with the whole OS system as I get a 'right click' function when I press the central pedal even if I'm just on Firefox or the Mac Finder. Thankfully in the meantime I have a bit of a workaround, as I also have the virtual Windows software 'Parallels' and the pedal is happily communicating as normal through that."

Thank you so much for this post! I just upgraded and the same happened to me. I called apple and they told me the same thing, that I had to call pedal company. But I had not found this post or I would have pointed out that it's not the pedal, but the upgrade. I am also using an Infinity Ver.14, so please let me know if the Infinity 3 USB version helps. Thanks so much!