Issues with cursor on my MacBook Pro

This is driving me crazy. In almost every application - my cursor won't change to resize windows, text columns, bounding boxes in adobe, anything - it stays as a pointer or flickers from the pointer to the resize icon. Since I spend most of my time designing things, it's an issue. At first I thought it was an adobe issue, but it happens in mail if im trying to make a column larger, happens if I am trying to resize the window of an open application or any other thing where its necessary for the cursor to change form. Help!


MacBook Pro m1. Running Sonoma 14.3.1 - but issue has been present for a few iterations of updates now.

Thank you!


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MacBook Pro (2021)

Posted on Feb 14, 2024 12:30 PM

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Posted on Mar 13, 2024 7:40 PM

I have the same issue and found issue My mouse cursor is flicking(Mac OS Ventur… - Apple Community, which suggested that the Bartender App might cause the issue. After I quit Bartender (5) it went to normal. I will observer it for now. Anybody else observing this problem who is not using Bartender?

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Feb 15, 2024 2:21 AM in response to MacandPete

Sorry, be very wary about seemingly helpful posting from ChatBot replies from some AI generated response to your question


We seem to have a number of such Entities appearing on the Forums these days


Alternative Real Support of a Real Contributor


To avoid the question / answer and question answer scenario


Suggest the User starts with the Top Suggestion and test. 


Thereafter,  move down to the next and test again. 


Keep on going in the Order that they have been presented or until you reach the Final Suggestion 


Restart in Safe Mode. This will perform a Disk Repair, clear cache files and only load Apple Software, extensions and fonts. The boot up will be slow and can take some time - Normal.


Safe Mode will also eliminate Third Party Software, extensions and drivers from loading. It will only load the Minimum amount of Core Apple Processes to allow the the computer to function at a reduced Level of Performance 


Does the issue present in this mode ?


Sometimes a Safe Boot followed by a Normal Boot will just put things right.


If not - there could be something in the main User Account playing up. To further isolate this - Set up users, guests, and groups on Mac. Then log out of the Main User account and log into the dummy account and test again if the issue persists.


If the issue is present in the dummy account - then, this appears to be a System Wide issue on the computer.


Download the Application Etrecheck  ( External Link ) directly from the Developer.


The Application is Not a " Silver Bullet "  and is  only a tool to examine the Hardware / Software used on this computer 


This is a Diagnostic Tool that makes no changes to the computer Hardware / Software used on this computer 


The application is free or paid from added features. 


The Report will Not Reveal Any Personal Information. 


Post back the Full Report - copy and paste - >>>> using the Additional Text Icon ( 3rd Icon to last ) <<<<


Using EtreCheck

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