Icons and menu items names labels keep popping up after MacOs Sonoma

Disable Voice Control in System Settings > Accessibility > Voice Control.

There is one other simple test that you should try: restart your mac in Safe Mode.

Do these labels still appear while in Safe Mode? If they do, then this is some system feature that we don't know about. If they don't (as I expect), then it must be some third party software - and that Etrecheck report should help us in trying to find what it is.

Please run Etrecheck and post its full report here. Use the "additional text" button and paste the report into the text box.

Just to add, if you want to use Voice Control you can turn off the labels from the "Overlay" menu.

I had the same problem. Thank you dialabrain, turning off voice control solved the problem.

I have never seen these names with an arrow and height adjusted for readability... It's kind of neat, actually, although not when it gets in the way. It does not seem like something that is included in Sonoma.

I cannot find this functionality anywhere in System Settings - it's not in Dock nor in Accessibility.

Did you by any chance install some third party software that may be doing this?

Thanks for stepping in, dialabrain. I would not have thought of voice control. Of course, you are absolutely right.

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OMG you saved my day, thank you 🙏

It worked, thank you

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