Disable Caps Lock Indicator on macOS Sonoma

mtnengineer wrote:

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I'm sorry but your post doesn't make much sense. Perhaps try reposting in English?

If we were having a technical discussion I would agree. My comment was with respect to the usefulness of a user-facing feature, not how it might be implemented more efficiently or in a different way. I'm not saying "nobody understands sign extension" or "everybody knows that pointers are evil"; I'm saying that this is a feature that was not begging to be implemented and that more people will find annoying than useful. The "in my opinion" clause is implied by the context.

Anyway, the top-voted answer provides a work-around for this ill-considered feature, so I'm happy. In the meantime, thanks again for the reminder to submit feedback to Apple.

Imagine for a moment that Apple decided to add this feature to let you know when you're typing in lowercase letters. When you're writing here, or an email, or you're drafting a document using lower case letters, the icon would be there, and it would follow where ever you're typing. It would be there in documents, in apps, in other platforms, there it is, with no way to shut it off without disabling lower case letters. Would you find that to be a helpful feature?

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I think the problem for many of us who have been active in this discussion is we are in an industry that always uses CAPS, like creating construction documents. When a feature hides the box you are trying to type in, it is a problem.

Re. Posts by "yochees" and "Betazero"

A thousand thank you's. I have despised this feature for 2 years, failing countless times to find a solution to permanently delete the unwanted and distracting cutesy blue icon that kept popping up in Sonoma. I am about as far from being a computer expert as a person can be (except for word processing and some math). Betazero's instructions were the easiest for me. Follow them EXACTLY, meaning just copy and paste in the items EXACTLY as provided and hit Enter without thinking that you have to hit any other keys or do anything else. When finished, I wasn't sure if I should back out of the accessed Terminal or not, so I just hit "Restart". Then up popped a most welcome screen asking me if I wanted to save what I had entered. I did, and my computer started as hoped for and the unwanted icon was gone.

Again, thank you so very much for the solution. November 23, 2023.

Re. mtnengineer: My mistake.....good catch. I bought the 27" Mac 2 years ago, then finally updated to Sonoma this last September (this late because of very slow local downloading in remote north Idaho--had to drive to the Mac store in Spokane to update). Nevertheless, this has irritated me so much it feels like 2 years! Had previously tried numerous times to get rid of the pesky icon with no success. It was after updating to Sonoma that the irritating little guy set up its camp on my computer.

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It's truly maddening. Blocks me from seeing the line below as I edit. Also, for whom is this even helpful? I know I'm in caps lock WHEN THE WORDS I TYPE ARE IN ALL CAPS. I don't need a distracting, superfluous arrow screaming in my face.

Here's a fix. It's imperfect but it will defeat this infuriating bug.

In Microsoft Word for Mac go to the drop down menu in the upper left and select Format.

In the Format drop-down, select Font.

In the Effects field, check All Caps

Deselect "caps lock" on your keyboard.

This will allow you to write in all caps without the caps lock symbol obscuring what you are trying to write.

It's imperfect because when you want to switch to lower case you have to go through the process to deselect all caps.

I write scripts for the spoken word, (television, podcasts, speeches) so we write in all caps for the ease of the narrator. It's become nearly impossible to work with the caps lock icon covering the words I'm editing.

Good luck, maybe Apple will create a fix that will make this a selectable feature.

This worked for me—enter the following in Terminal, then reboot.

sudo defaults write /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist redesigned_text_cursor -dict-add Enabled -bool NO

Found it online. Presumably replacing NO with YES restores original behavior. Untested.

ShirlsAdams wrote:

Apparently, APPLE does not respond in this forum. It is frustrating.

No, they do not. That is explained in the Terms of Use to which we all agreed when we signed up. This is a user-t-user technical support forum. But this forum is filled with very knowledgable people, including some who explained how you can disable the Caps Lock indicator in this very thread.

This solution seems to work. Since doing this I've had some (likely) unrelated issues in one program. If possible could you post the "undo" for the above to see if that's the issue? I would just like to rule it out as its a new issue that popped up right after doing this. Thanks!

@yochees

Would you kindly be able to post how to reverse this? It worked for me but I immediately after I started having one annoying issue in one program which I assume is unrelated. I would like to confirm this isn't causing that issue prior to going down a rabbit hole trying to fix that. Thanks!

silvylak wrote:

When I click on the arrow icon, as has been suggested, yes the icon goes away, but it also turns CAPS off and I'm back to typing in lower case.

You have to re-enable Caps Lock and the symbol should not reappear until you disable Caps Lock again.