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Identifying the floating icon on iPadOS 26

On iPad OS 26.0, what is the floating b&w icon with an “a” in the centre, partly magnified.

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Original Title: Small floating icon, not Assistive Access

iPad, iOS 10

Posted on Sep 22, 2025 11:30 PM

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LotusPilot

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Posted on Sep 23, 2025 11:14 AM

You appear to have enabled the Hover Text feature. Many have observed that this feature has been unexpectedly enabled by the iPadOS 26 upgrade.

Hover Text is simply disabled from iPad settings:

Settings > Accessibility > [Vision] Hover Text > Hover Text - set to OFF

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Identifying the floating icon on iPadOS 26

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