Can I turn off blue arrow to indicate text cursor?

The oblong shape added to the cursor obscures text in the line below and sometimes requires additional clicking to get the thing out of the way. It's an annoying and unneeded distraction. Apple, why did you do this? This is reminiscent of past Microsoft blunders.

Professional writer. My workflow, for decades, has been to freewrite draft content in ALL CAPS and change revised sections to sentence case as they are finished.

Capslock indicator beside the field when entering password? Beautiful.

Capslock indicator in BRIGHT BLUE flashing on under my cursor every time I stop to think? Maddening. Clippy-must-die levels of maddening, because at least Clippy could be turned OFF.

Please fix this as soon as possible—and make the change granular enough that we can get rid of the blue arrow everywhere without losing the password-fail clue arrow.

Thank you.

Thanks, that's a great option for people who have access to Terminal. I'll probably do that if I update my home Mac to Sonoma before there's an official fix.

Individual users in business settings (my day job situation) don't necessarily have the skill or the access to Terminal and sudo commands to make that kind of change. This is not a realistic solution for anyone in an enterprise-managed Mac environment.

You're welcome. Yes, there are any number of things you can't do on a managed computer.

As a workaround, if you click on the Caps Lock Indicator, which turns off Caps Lock, then press the Caps Lock key again, you should be able to type in all caps without the indicator.

If it ain't broke don't fix it - something new for the sake of it is a dumb idea please ditch the arrow.

While I'm at it the new iMac keyboard ergonomics aren't that great either -

its need some angle not a flat zero degree bottom.

Seems redundant! My keyboard (MacBk Air) has an "on" light in the Caps Lock key. If they maybe made it a translucent blue arrow WITHOUT the opaque background it would be harmless. But as it is, it blocks your view of things that you sometimes need to see. I know when my Caps Lock is on anyway, I don't need this stupid obstruction to remind me!!

[Edited by Moderator]

This blue arrow on all text fields in all programs is absolutely crazy. Apple - just because you can do it doesn't mean you should. I'm a very busy graphic designer and this annoying blue arrow shows up in Photoshop when I use text and in all other Adobe products. It's slowing my workflow down and greatly annoying me! If they're going to add something as pervasive and so different from what everyone is used to, they should have an easy way to turn it off. It's useless to me.

I'm pretty sure it is Microsoft (not Apple). I have recently encountered this for the first time (after decades of Apple computers and products). It happened right after I was forced to get a Microsoft account (which causing unending terrible problems). I'm forced to use Word for work (and have many old Word files myself), so I'm all Apple plus Word. Recent changes at Microsoft are nothing less than shocking. In my haste, I believe I gave Microsoft access to my Safari (though I'm certain I didn't give it access to my Metadata). Anyway, this blue is most certainly characteristic of Microsoft, and they are ALL over my MacOS suddenly. I have to figure out how to get rid of them, but Microsoft has no interest in customer service or in anything really. It is indeed very frustrating.

It is a very un-Apple-like thing, but looks very much like everything does in Word and Microsoft - same fat blue, their signature style and color. I don't think Apple would do this - it is not their style to be inefficient and meddlesome. It happened for me exactly when I got two separate (one in error, then a correction purchase) Microsoft accounts (now completely required if you want only even Word). They also entirely "removed" the accounts associated with Microsoft from my Apple Mail (took them away - poof - gone). I kid you not, and I know my computer and Apple well for decades - since the 80's. Microsoft requires that you tie an email account specifically with their Microsoft account (and of course they push Outlook). I just don't believe this is Apple. Apple is beautiful.

Here is another thing that makes me think it is Microsoft (I hear what several of you are saying about it being all over the Apple OS). I never have this blue arrow in my Apple Mail. I have four different emails all in that one Apple Mail and use it constantly.

I just got off of an employer site where I was logged in (to Microsoft and Google Drive); I try my best to avoid Microsoft as they are simply going too far these days.

The blue arrow is now all over my email. It isn't only in Microsoft documents (I have a lot of personal ones as well), it is literally inside the OS. I'm pretty sure that at one point I (stupidly and in haste) gave permission to Microsoft to access my Safari. I do not use Outlook nor do I ever want to. So this is to throw confusion into the brew. Why is that strictly Microsoft-looking fat blue arrow in my pristine, efficient, and clean Apple Mail? I seriously doubt that it is Apple. It is something that has access to the Mac OS.

Toggling "Full Keyboard Access" on has no effect on the CapsLock blue arrow on my MacBk Air M2 running Sonoma (which caused the problem to appear when I upgraded from Ventura). My Full Keyboard Access is on now and the blue arrow appears right now as I am typing if I hit CapsLock.

So, I booted up my MacBook Pro running Monterey 12.7.5, which I believe is the most up to date OS and I don’t get any blue cursor upon clicking caps lock.

Other than my previous post regarding my iPad Pro with the Apple Magic Keyboard which was successful in removing the blue cursor error, I don’t have any further information on how to fix this issue.

Best of luck…

Monterey is not the most current OS, it's two versions back. You have missed out on Ventura (Mac OS 13.X) and missed that the thread is about our problems in Sonoma (Mac OS 14.X).

You'd given me a glimmer of hope, but that hope is just a bit out of date.

Thanks for trying!

I find it hard to believe Apple and Adobe don't have user's groups to test ideas. It doesn't have to be a large group, even a few dozen. It can be done remotely and with volunteers. I'd bet most ideas for "improvements" would be shot down, thereby saving users untold hours of aggravation and time.