Tahoe producing constant ghost images on the screen under the cursor

Steven Weinberg1 wrote:

The cursor on my MacBook Pro with Tahoe 26.1 continuously creates annoying "ghost" images right under the cursor that obscure just enough of the screen to interfere with operations I am trying to complete.

verify your software is up to date—

The current stable release of Tahoe including bug fixes, security updates is macOS 26.2

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

After you upgrade/update I always advise to shut down and restart more than once...and compare your results

>Shut Down

if no resolve—

A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

if you are using Accessibility features— check there ex.

Accessibility>Pointer Control>Spring loading(?)

further—

How to contact Apple for accessibility support

How to contact Apple for help with accessibility features - Apple Support

you can email the Accessibility team at Accessibility@apple.com and they can respond via email.

Nothing about your windows looks right. This may be somehow related to whatever is making that 1990's look and those borders around everything. This is what the Apple Community home page looks like in Safari on my M4 Pro Macbook Pro running Tahoe with no add-ons or Accessibility options set:

If you have a UI-altering app installed, disable it. If not, start check what Accessibility options amy be engaged from System Settings > Accessibility.

Allan Jones wrote:

Nothing about your windows looks right. This may be somehow related to whatever is making that 1990's look and those borders around everything.

Those boxes are, indeed, due to an Accessibility option, namely Display > Increase Contrast.

I sometimes encounter something similar at times and it is annoying. I'm not aware of any timer settings to delay those popups, I just try to keep the pointer moving. I use List view so I'm also able to keep the pointer outside of the name field which may prevent it as well (I'm not at my Tahoe system at the moment to confirm).

Also, you may want to update to 26.2 which was just released last week to see if that makes any difference.

This issue has been reported by others, for example:

Unwanted and unrelated "Tooltips" at mous… - Apple Community

Not sure if the solution in that linked thread will help, though.