Disable Caps Lock Indicator on macOS Sonoma

No, not really. When you click it, it turns off caps lock, which defeats the purpose of using it in the first place. So you have to manually turn it back on again using the keyboard. Sure, it disappears momentarily, until you use caps lock again, and it's back. So you'd have to do this continually all day long.

I discovered when you press caps lock on and then switch to another window using the three finger drag on touchpad and then coming back to window previously on activates it. I suggest two things to try, first, going to another window(three finger drag left or right with touchpad)with caps lock still on and with new window open, pressing caps lock off and then going back to previous window(three finger drag technique with touchpad)or Second with caps lock on and blue/green symbol on screen still, turning caps lock off and then switching window(three finger drag left or right with touchpad) and then coming back to original window gets it to go away, pressing and releasing touchpad between windows is important. Hopefully this helps😎🙏🤞

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.

I used this simpler, single Terminal command to disable the Caps Lock indicator (without disabling the caps lock function):

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

To reverse you replace NO with YES. Don't know how to reverse yochees's suggestion, but once reversed, would be interested to know if my solution creates the same side effects, which I haven't seen, but perhaps don't understand.

If I click the indicator, it will turn off caps lock (and the indicator will of course disappear along with it). When I enable caps lock again, the indicator is displayed again. It will not remain off.

ibix wrote:

I HAVE THE OFFICIAL ANSWER FROM APPLE. The answer is: you cannot turn it off. See attached. So aggravating.

It was established months ago that Apple doesn't offer a way to do that in settings. If you want to try, there are instructions in this thread on how to turn it off through the terminal.

richardm04 wrote:

if you click on the caps indicator arrow— it will shut it off,

the very next time you click the caps lock (i.e. to work in all caps) the indicator will remain OFF

I HAVE THE OFFICIAL ANSWER FROM APPLE. The answer is: you cannot turn it off. See attached. So aggravating.

anthony612 wrote:

Agreed unhelpful for me, just gets in the way of forms I complete online. Why cannot we disable this unliked feature if we want to?

No one here can answer that. All you can do is tell Apple your thoughts.

NetoBrSP wrote:

Bother me a lot because the pop up has been exactly on the space where I input the datas in our countability system. 😩

FWIW, if you click on the indicator it will disappear while you type.

MikeBruner wrote:

THE ICON IS NOT A FEATURE! IT IS INCREDIBLY ANNOYING.

This icon is a feature, just one you find annoying.

WHY CAN'T I JUST TURN IT OFF!!!

Because Apple didn't give you that option. You can let them know your feelings on the matter here:

Product Feedback - Apple

ONLY ANSWER HERE IS FOR PROGRAMERS. NUTS.

Pasting a couple of lines of coded into Terminal isn't most people's idea of "programming". Using Terminal can be a bit intimidating, especially to younger folks who never used DOS or UNIX but it's really not that hard.

Oh, an please, while it's still working on your computer, pay attention to the caps lock indicator. You mistakenly typed your entire post in caps. I'm sure you wouldn't want people to think you were intentionally being rude to us, your fellow users.

I don´t understand what is the solution.

To permanently disable the new Caps Lock icon/indicator that came with macOS Sonoma, do the following easy steps:

1. Go to your Applications folder (Finder: menu: Go: Applications). Sort alphabetically and go down to the Utilities folder. (alternatively, in the Finder, hit ⌘-Shift-U and the Utilities folder window should pop up.)

2. In the Utilities folder, you'll find an app called Terminal. Double click to open it.

3. In the resulting Terminal window, you'll see some text and a blinking box (instead of a cursor). None of that really matters, it's just to let you know you're in the right place.

4. Copy and paste this line of text in your Terminal window:

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain

Then hit the Return key.

(don't type out that line of code, to avoid missing proper spacing, etc. Just copy and paste it into your Terminal window).

5. Now copy and paste this next line of text in your same Terminal Window:

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add 'redesigned_text_cursor:Enabled' bool false" /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist

Then hit the Return key.

6. You'll now see the Terminal window say "Password:_" with a key icon in place of the cursor. Go ahead and slowly and carefully type out your Mac's user account password. Note: you won't see the Terminal window respond to your keystrokes as you type out your standard user account password. Just know that it's accepting the keys. Hit Return.

You'll see some a line or two more of resulting text in your Terminal Window, probably something like "redesigned_text_cursor: Enabled"

7. Quit Terminal. (Command-Q).

8. Restart your Mac, and the stupid Caps Lock Indicator should now be permanently gone.

The first line is:

sudo mkdir -p /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain

The second line is:

sudo /usr/libexec/PlistBuddy -c "Add 'redesigned_text_cursor:Enabled' bool false" /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist

richardm04 wrote:

Well there should be, it's incredibly intrusive

Let Apple know you find it incredibly intrusive.

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