Hard to use the letter long-press function for accents with the new Tahoe update

Updated to Tahoe today, as a French speaker I often use accents when typing. Unfortunately long-pressing letters such as "e" to get "è/é/ê" was made very complicated when typing on a white background:

Any way to revert this specific bubble's opacity?

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 26.0

Posted on Sep 16, 2025 10:26 AM

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Sep 16, 2025 11:09 AM in response to adwi10

I am seeing this as well. In any given window, the first time a long letter press is used the bubble starts black with white letters but the background immediately fades to white (and the letters remain white). The second time a long press is used in that window, the bubble starts and stays white (and the letters remain white).


This happens in Safari (e.g. in this dialog box I'm typing this post), also in MS Word, for example (same behavior, starts black then becomes white and subsequently starts white, open a new document and the same thing happens from the beginning).

Sep 16, 2025 10:39 AM in response to adwi10

adwi10 wrote:

Updated to Tahoe today, as a French speaker I often use accents when typing. Unfortunately long-pressing letters such as "e" to get "è/é/ê" was made very complicated when typing on a white background:
https://discussions.apple.com/content/attachment/b890ebd9-fe70-418f-913d-1e9748f6685b
Any way to revert this specific bubble's opacity?


not seeing the issue... Have you shut down and restarted more than once(?)





see Tom Gewecke document ref: MacOS Accent Menu Has Disappeared

MacOS Accent Menu Has Disappeared - Apple Community



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Hard to use the letter long-press function for accents with the new Tahoe update

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