Tooltips are not showing up in any app on my mac

When I hover over buttons in apps and leave the mouse there, I do not get any hint about what the button does. This is true for every app on my machine. I have not found any way to fix this on the internet.

Posted on Jan 4, 2024 3:24 PM

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Apr 21, 2024 5:36 AM in response to leroydouglas

I have a similar problem, in most apps tooltip are not showing. For example, in Logic, if I wanted to check the shortcut for set locator I would hover the mouse on the icon and see the shortcut in a tooltip, since I upgraded to Sonoma this tooltip is not visible. Other applications that shows similar problems is Affinity (any of the Affinity applications), I have the version from the AppStore, and they also don't show tooltips. Interestingly, Safari does show tooltips, for example if I over the + icon, it correctly tells me that it would open a new tab.

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