Mouse cursor disappears.

Hi, I'm new here.

I am italian, and italians are famous for their very good english, so... sorry.

Is there a similar discussion for Yosemite? I have your problems with pointer, specially with photoshop and VmWare Fusion in fullscreen mode.

No solves with reboot, pram reset, cursor size setting, and other stuff...

Sometimes it works fine changing window and returning again on it (for photoshop), but it works only for few minutes...

sad.....

😕

There are many people having trouble with the mouse cursor and/or pointer disappearing, several times a day in some cases. Have a look at the earlier posts in this topic. Some suggestions work for some people. I bought my present iMac in 2011 and in Lion and Mountain Lion I have had continuous problems with the mouse, and sometimes with the Trackpad. It is a permanent feature of my Mac experience. I just accept it and grit my teeth. (Ho solo stringere i denti, as Google translate says!) I have not installed Yosemite but I expect it will have the same problem (for me).

I don't know if my problem is the same as other people...

I post a video where ther's the problem:

http://youtu.be/oaYMhQK_YWc

The problem has come back for me after installing Yosemite - but, so far, only for Microsoft Word and only intermittently. This time it is different - the mouse pointer is visible but the insertion point character (flashing vertical bar) sometimes disappears.

Grrr

Word - Microsoft Support

The sparse advice on MS Support seems to conclude it is likely a graphics driver problem and that users should contact their graphics card supplier (i.e. Apple!).

I installed Yosemite, and the cursor still disappeared.

Then I used the accessibility function, and slightly enlarged the cursor and I haven't seen it disappear yet. I also haven't been able to use the iMac to its fullest because of all the other application problems I encountered after the 'upgrade', but so far so good with the cursor at least.

Try enlarging your cursor slightly.

I tried this in 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014. No solution.

I had this problem return, but it went away again when I went to System Preferences > Accessibility > Zoom and unchecked both "Use keyboard shortcuts to zoom" and "Use scroll gesture with modifier keys to zoom". Comes right back if I check either one.

WOW!

I just upgraded an from my old 32bit iMac to a new MBP with 16g ram and an i core 7 processor, only to discover that my brand new $3K laptop can't even provide me with a functional mouse!!!

Worst still, i now read apple has been aware of the problem for over 2yrs and it STILL not fixed.

I upgraded because i finally tired of all the glitchy crash causing bugs that my iMac had developed. I put them down to being due to the iMac being 5yrs old and having worked pretty hard every day since i unpacked it from the box.

Looks like that might have been a $3K mistake.

I read that i can buy a 3rd party app for between $2 and $7 that will give me a work around to Apple's problem. Really, how convenient! So, Apple reviews, approves and lists on their App Store, an app purely designed to mask a fault in Apple's own operating system, that they've not been able to resolve in over 2yrs! Surely i'm not the only one who sees the irony in that?

If you can't fix the problem Apple, then at least show us the respect of providing us all the App for free, until you can!

The 2 x $800 PC's i bought for my kids seem to function perfectly.

If i had experienced this issue before purchasing the new MBP, i would never have purchased it. It's that frustrating! Seriously considering taking this MBP back and exchanging it for one of those, now.

Would never have happened when SJ was alive and in charge. Apple has really lost its way since he left this earth!

2 years!! I have suffered this wretched mouse problem for 4 years, since June 2011.

By the way, what is the name of the app you mention? I'm prepared to try anything short of changing to Windows.

Link to app that was mentioned in an article i read this morning. - http://www.macchampion.com/MacChampion/Welcome.html

There are others at the Apple App Store. Stinks to have to pay to work around a problem that Apple has known about for over 4yrs.

Only happened to me when i was trying to work with 500 photos on a SD card plugged into the MBP card reader slot. I read somewhere that it's believed to be a problem only for those with up spec graphics cards. The theory is that when the Mac switches from the standard Intel graphics card to the NVIDIA GeForce, it looses the pointer graphic.

I'm not smart enough to know if that's true and even if it is, it doesn't help us..............

Looking at PinPoint's site, their statement "Never loose your pointer again" seems to refer to their custom pointers which can be quite big and therefore easily found on the screen, not to the pointer disappearing altogether.

Nice, this fixed my disappearing cursor in iTunes full screen mode

Thank you and seasons greetings

Can't confirm.