Does your cursor disappear?

I'm using Mavericks 10.9.5 with the zoom keyboard shortcut, control and two finger swipe up or down, and the cursor disappears periodically. Sometimes if I swipe up-and-down to the top and bottom quickly repeatedly it will come back, but sometimes not. I just tried the suggestion above of swiping to the top and clicking, but that didn't work. Since it seems to be connected to the zoom function, I tried pressing "control" and zooming in with the two finger swipe, and that brought to cursor back immediately.

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I used tools from the toolbar but I can't get my cursor back. Now I can only use one of the tools as a cursor.

Any ideas on this?

And here we are in the time of El Capitan 10.11.5 (the most current update at the time of this post) and this is still an issue. When I boot my MacBook Pro 13" (early 2015) and the user log-in screen appears, there is often times no cursor. It is an intermittent issue, but it happens often enough to be a nuisance. The solution I have found is to simply press the power button for a second or two to put the laptop to sleep (be careful not to hold it down long enough that it invokes a forced shutdown). When you reawaken it by pressing the space bar, the cursor reappears. It would be great if this were fixed, Apple. Thank you!

Hi All i have an iMac 27" running El Capitan, and my mouse cursor disappears randomly quite often, i end up madly clicking all over my screen to get it to come back

this happens in any application but mostly safari or google chrome

it is very annoying when trying to work, i have tried the above mentioned tweaks and i still have the same issue

You might want to consider starting a new discussion. Since this one is a couple of years old, less people are likely to look at it. You can link to this one. Post in the ElCapitan community.

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move your cursor to top left of the screen, so drag your finger across the pad in the direction to the top left towards the apple logo, you cursor should reappear.

I don't know why the second half of my above reply is in much smaller print, but that's the part that has the solution for me, which is to press control and use a two finger swipe to zoom in, as I have the zoom shortcut enabled, and I that brings a cursor back immediately.

I still have this same issue. I, like others, simply change applications and it shows up again. This issues occurs usually when working in MS Word, when Powerpoint is in slideshow mode (in the background), and shows itself most when moving over to a Chrome window, but all of this could be noise for the problem is specific to the monitor edge and not the application window.

It's coming up for 2 years now and apple still haven't fixed this. I'm running Sierra 10.12.1 and the cursor just disappeared on my MBP (Mid 2015). Safari had the focus, I moved the mouse quickly and the large mouse appeared. Let go and it disappeared again. This just kept doing the same thing over and over.

I just did command tab to go to another app and the problem went away, but the bug is still there - very annoying Apple don't seem to be able to fix this

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I have the same problem except I don't get a chance to open another app because when I sign into my iMac then the cursor disappears. After 10 minutes it just reappeared for the 1st time.

Just bought a new MacBook Pro 15" and have this problem with no second monitor. None of the suggestions help.

That works for me but it extremely irritating.

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I have found that the size of the cursor triggers its disappearance. If I reduce the cursor size to minimum, it's fine. If I enlarge it again it starts disappearing again. Apple has been advised.