New red mic icon on my MBA screen -- has X next to icon but clicking x does not close... ???
Happy Holidays to all.
Am hoping for help with a recent irritating thing on my MBA 2020 M1; with Ventura 3.1.
I do use voice dictation a good deal, but recently on right side of screen, a microphone icon started to automatically appear with an X to its right, in a small red box. Single and double clicks on the icon or the X did not change anything, nor did it turn mic on.
When I use my keyboard shortcut to turn the mic on, the normal box, pointing to the insertion point turns on, with the word done underneath as normal.
While I use the microphone, the red mic box slides to R, off the screen. Then, if I turn the mic off, either by clicking done, or by double clicking, the key that I use, the red box with the mic and the X comes right back.
I looked in the settings menu and didn't find anything related to this, and when I searched here the only response I got was to a different kind of mic icon that used to appear several revisions ago – that is the last response was in the 2020.
Thank you in advance for any leads or information to help me swat this Red mic box away from my screen.
Howard
MacBook Air Apple Silicon
