youtube mouse cursor disappears and reappears

There’s a little app that gives you control over showing/hiding the macOS mouse cursor named Cursorcerer.In my case this caused the macOS mouse cursor to disappear in fullscreen video playback. Try pressing the Spacebar twice to quickly pause & replay the video.So I found the following approaches to hide the mouse cursor on Macs with a Touch Bar: Unfortunately the F8 / fn+ F8 solution is not working on MacBooks with a digital Touch Bar, running macOS 10.14 Mojave, anymore (that’s the setup I could test it).

Haven’t tested this yet on a MacBook Pro with the digital TouchBar – feedback about that is very welcome. Remember: depending on your primary use for the F(unction)-keys, you may need to hold the fn+F8 keys to achieve the same result. Just press the F8 key on your keyboard while in fullscreen (e.g. When your Mac cursor disappears, it can cause a lot of issues with what youre working on at the moment. It’s a really strange issue, and fairly uncommon, but disruptive. When you are of the kind of people who also like a distortion-free screen, you may also dislike that the macOS cursor sometimes shows up in fullscreen video playback.įortunately there is a very simple solution: Instead of wondering what’s wrong with your computer when the Mac mouse disappears, lets discuss some of the most common fixes for this unusual problem. Update November 2018: added special remarks regarding this solution on Macs with a digital Touch Bar.

Youtube mouse cursor disappears and reappears