Most of the world has more than one language in their system settings, and we all work every day typing in some form of text.
In Sonoma, when you change the input source, a pop-up language indicator appears next to the cursor.
This is the worst kind of distraction.
Is there any way to disable this popup?
MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
Stephan Casas, who was the person who discovered the flag to disable the new cursor, helped me to find a flag that will disable input source switch popup without the unwanted side effect of the text cursor not showing up in some circumstances.
First, if you had used the previous flag to disable the new style text cursor completely, you should probably delete it using:
sudo defaults delete /Library/Preferences/FeatureFlags/Domain/UIKit.plist redesigned_text_cursor
You'll probably need to restart your system to re-enable the new style text cursor.
After that, disabling the inline input switcher pop up is as simple as:
defaults write kCFPreferencesAnyApplication TSMLanguageIndicatorEnabled 0
That makes the system start using the old center screen HUD style input method switcher immediately, without needing to restart your system.
Any open applications will still show a popup when the input method is changed. However, once an app is restarted, it will no longer show an indicator when it's changed.
That's more than enough for me. Hopefully Apple won't change it. :)
This won't disable the CapsLock indicator. There might be another flag for that.
See here for further discussion: https://gist.github.com/stephancasas/236f543b0f9f6509f5fe5878de01e38a?permalink_comment_id=4748936#gistcomment-4748936
Some apps and contexts I’ve noticed the issue in:
There have probably been others as well, but I’m not seeing problems in most apps.
In affected apps, usually the pattern is that the first text field to receive focus will show the caret/text cursor as normal when it receives focus for the first time. If any other text field becomes focused then most text fields in the app’s window will no longer show the caret/text cursor. Occasionally, all it takes is for the first text field to lose focus to another part of the window.
This is really ugly and distracting. It even shows if the Shift key is pressed which is useless and extremely annoying.
Indeed Apple is going downhill. Just question yourself, how Svete Jobs would feel about such UI/UX! I bet he would be ashamed!
I agree that it is annoying, however, giving up on macOS because if it reduces your credibility to Apple and as a software engineer. (I am a retired SWE with 40 years experience, I can maintain focus at my age even with this absurd 'feature'.)
It's the blinking cursor indicating your position within the text when you're writing something (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caret_navigation).
EDIT: Oops, sorry, looks like someone already responded to you. I thought the messages here on the forums would be sorted by date by default,
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It's a horrible feature and Apple is a really bad in UI design. For last 5 years every update to the new version is a pain, coz you never know what Apple crashed.
Looks like it was my last MacBook. I can't live with broken soundcards, broken webcam features for Sony cameras, all that BS.
Buffet shortened your stocks and it's your way to fall. Think you ar to big to fail?))
Very useful, thanks!
Have you found a solution?
It looks particularly broken if you have custom input sources (e.g. https://hci.rwth-aachen.de/usgermankeyboard or https://eurkey.steffen.bruentjen.eu/) installed with their own custom icons
Could you explain exactly what you mean by “caret”? Perhaps post a screen shot.
Also see this discussion about Alfred here: https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/21080-alfred-doesnt-show-the-text-cursor-in-macos-sonoma-if-the-redesigned-text-cursor-is-disabled/
There is no doubt that this is a very failed design. Because of this design, I even want to give up mac OS. I am a software engineer, and it greatly affects my concentration when writing code.
Good suggestion. I did.
anyway to revert that brings the pop up icons back?
Hello! is there a way to undo this after doing this? Thank you for helping!
Sonoma: any way to disable input source switch popup?
