Keyboard blue letter shows up in middle of text and doesn't leave

confused_user14 wrote:

To specify what I mean by blue letter, when you hit the 🌐 key at the bottom left of the keyboard on the Macbook (Pro), you can switch between keyboards. Once you do that, you will see a little box with the chosen keyboard selected in blue and the other(s) in grey. Quickly after, the grey one will disappear and only the blue selected letter will remain for a second before disappearing.

That is exactly what I see whenever my cursor is resting on a piece of text for long enough, the blue key representing the keyboard I am currently using magically shows up in the middle of the screen, and even if I click away elsewhere on the text, it simply moves but doesn't disappear, it only disappears once I change tabs or window.

Specifically, the cursor is on text when it happens, so that means it is the 'text' style of cursor instead of the 'default'.

Here is a screenshot:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/5449c23f-7914-4d4e-99ed-2028edbfa4c1

As you can see, the blue little thing is flying over my document for no reason, and there is a little shadow effect on it. I am not sure whether this is a setting I can turn off somewhere or a bug.

Specifications: MacBook Pro M1 2021 OS 15.0.1. This event has happened on previous versions.

See if this is it—

ref:

How to Disable the New Popup for Switchin… - Apple Community

confused_user14 wrote:

Thank you. It seems that after I did that, when I change the keyboard it does this instead of the previous blue little thing:

https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/e5970a35-2753-4280-b8b4-5b14f04d13b0

(image taken from Google)

I am fine with that, but if there is another way, I would like to hear it.

Either way, it is more of a workaround than an actual fix to the issue.

you can always change it back—copy and paste:

defaults write kCFPreferencesAnyApplication TSMLanguageIndicatorEnabled 1

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