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Anyone noticing the cursor is harder to find on a busy screen after the last couple of Ventura updates?

PinkyMacGodess

macrumors G4

Original poster

Mar 7, 2007 10,105 6,059 Midwest America.
I have a TV on a Mac Mini, and when using my riding app, the cursor sometimes gets lost in the mess on the screen, and lately, after the past couple of updates, the amount of movement to get the cursor to 'blow up' to find it seems to have gotten higher to the point it's taking longer to 'find' it.

Is there an adjustment in the System Settings that might make it more like before?

TIA...

MacGizmo

macrumors 68030
Apr 27, 2003 2,650 1,940 Arizona
Now that you mention it, I've noticed that I'm having to shake the mouse to locate the cursor more often than I used to. Granted, I have a 34" 5k main screen and a 27" 4k secondary screen, and I AM getting older, but I've had these screens for a long time and never recall having to shake to locate as often.

There is no adjustment that I'm aware of, other than making the cursor itself larger in the Accessibility settings, but that brings its own issues (for me, anyway).

The getting older part I've not been able to resolve. I suppose I'll have to live with it. 😆
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Bazza1

macrumors 6502a
May 16, 2017 Toronto, Canada
There is no adjustment that I'm aware of, other than making the cursor itself larger in the Accessibility settings, but that brings its own issues (for me, anyway).

The getting older part I've not been able to resolve. I suppose I'll have to live with it. 😆
No so much for finding the cursor, but I have used the Accessibility > Display settings to marginally increase the size and colour of the pointer (outline white; fill red) to find it on my screen / within apps. I long ago gave up on desktop image in favour of a plain black screen, which certainly helps, too.

Age (or at least, eyes burnt out by decades of lookng at a screen) may be an issue here (😏), but I'm gonna guess finding the cursor / pointer on increasingly larger screens is part of the problem - so much real estate which it can hide in - wiggled or not. I note that Windows now has a feature (might be in the optional PowerToys) that actually puts a halo around the pointer when a user wiggles to find it. Something like that might help here, too?

PinkyMacGodess

macrumors G4

Original poster

Mar 7, 2007 10,105 6,059 Midwest America.
So it's not just me. I'm older too, but the idea that someone tweaked the cursor to make it harder to find makes me want to fill their pants with fire ants. (Joking...)

I was starting to think it was 'age', and not macOS, but it really seemed that it was the later. Hmm... I guess I could submit a comment requesting a product update which would be a regression actually. It's just weird that Apple would do that, but it's their contract programmers I'd bet, and no one say the change. Funny how small changes can make things so different, so challenging. Thanks...

rpmurray

macrumors 68000
Feb 21, 2017 1,879 3,814 Back End of Beyond
There are a few screen cursor apps on the App Store that will allow you to customize all sorts of settings to make the cursor visible. May also be some from other developers outside the store but I haven't really looked that hard.

GO_ICONIC

macrumors newbie
Sep 28, 2021
Yep. Cursor often disappears on my second screen. Have to bounce it around/ blindly drag it back to main screen, click to see it again.

orbital~debris

macrumors 68000
Mar 3, 2004 1,848 4,395 UK, Europe
So what exactly is it being suggested that has changed?
I haven't noticed any differences myself…

PinkyMacGodess

macrumors G4

Original poster

Mar 7, 2007 10,105 6,059 Midwest America.
So what exactly is it being suggested that has changed?
I haven't noticed any differences myself…
On my busy screen, I used to be able to skate it across the screen and see it 'blow up'. Now, it seems that I have to wag it around a bit, and if I don't see it at normal size moving, I have really no clue what part of the menu it might pop out on, and even then, sometimes it's not that high on the screen to even see it on the menu bar. It's a really busy screen that is, for a 'monitor' HUGE. Sometimes I can't see it at all unless I really wag it around way more than it seemed I had to not long ago.

I liked being able to zip it across the screen and catch it, where now it seems to take more motion. I was just curious if anyone else also thought that the mouse pointer location seems to have altered. Apparently it has.

orbital~debris

macrumors 68000
Mar 3, 2004 1,848 4,395 UK, Europe
But you’ve always had to waggle the mouse to make the pointer appear larger, since the feature was introduced (in macOS El Capitan). No change to that.

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