Disable Caps Lock Indicator on macOS Sonoma

Click the caps lock icon!

It turns right back on again

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.

Yes. Super annoying. I did submit a feedback request, and I hope many many others do too. As for now, I'm rolling back to Ventura to avoid this arrow being on my screen constantly since almost everything I do is in caps lock!

Yes I was thinking the same, does not seem possible that Apple introduce such an intrusive feature and do not provide an option to either use it or not. Presumably the next hardware release will be without the Cap Keyboard Light.

anthony612 wrote:

Presumably the next hardware release will be without the Cap Keyboard Light.

I sure hope not. Forcing an on-screen indicator that potentially hides content when it's active? That would be absolutely scandalous.

Or could it be Apple think not using the Cap light is going to save the planet. Anyway I think I know a way to not have this annoying feature appearing on screen, just use the shift key, which will be easy if you can grow a third hand.

I am unable to find a way to turn it off either and its super annoying. but what i have found is if i click the caps sign on screen it turns the caps off and you press the caps button again that sign seems to disappear. try this till the time they actually find a solution to provide us with the rights whether to use this feature or not.

Good news!

This morning (October 5, 2023) the icon does not appear anymore. It was probably a test since no update was done in the meantime. I am still on 14.0.

Bad News!

After a reboot it is back again. :-(

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.

Yes! I think you've got it, and you figured it out a day before I did.

I am still puzzling over the variable appearances of a "keyboard layout indicator" in a similar format (white uncials in a medium blue oval). I have 5 keyboard layouts now (down from eleven), and I have only sometimes seen the little indicator. It is intrusive and annoying as well, but less frequent in its appearances.

(Even though you have very many points indeed, you merit new ones for posting this.)

The 10,000 complaints may get Apple to fix it, or make a switch available, but, when as many people are annoyed by this feature as now seems to be the case, a contributor with a keen sense of smell or something similar in programming terms, will usually offer up a solution such as that offered by yochees in the post that follows yours (at the time I write this).

In a sense, what he has offered us is the switch so many of us wanted.

Joe1618 wrote:

I can't imagine why someone would think making this a default setting was a good idea.

It is frequently difficult to imagine why other people like different things than we do or find different ways of doing things preferable. But, it is nonetheless often the case.

I got rid of it through this guy's script that he wrote. Super easy to do, even for people like me that have never opened Script Editor in their life:

https://gist.github.com/stephancasas/236f543b0f9f6509f5fe5878de01e38a

Yeah..I was doing the same thing as I thought it was a problem with Excel until the Blue arrow showed up in Safari!

I agree, who in their right mind thought this was a good idea? Steve is rolling in his ashes...