Q: Sometimes the cursor disappears from the screen of my five-year-old MacBook Air laptop. If I open and close the "lid" of the laptop, the cursor eventually reappears. What's wrong? Does it indicate ...

Without a cursor, your Mac would be pretty hard to use. In fact, it would be all but impossible to use, save for a few keyboard shortcuts. The cursor is what makes it so easy to navigate around your ...

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on Tuesday granted Apple a utility patent for the dynamically changing mouse cursor seen in previous Mac OS iterations as well as the current OS X Lion. Apple's ...

Universal Control extends your mouse, trackpad, trackball, keyboard, and other input devices across multiple Macs and iPads that you have logged in to the same iCloud account. Put your devices near ...

Dock responds to AppleScript In response to our coverage last week on ways to kill the Dock in order to remove the puff of smoke drawing artifacts, we noted that there are more than a few ways to skin ...

Update: Federighi is also interviewed on the same topic in a special episode of the AppStories podcast. Creating the iPadOS cursor without compromising the touch-first nature of the iPad was no easy ...

Apple in iPadOS 13 introduced support for external mice as an Accessibility feature, and in iPadOS 14, Apple is set to expand cursor support to make using a mouse or a trackpad on iPadOS similar to ...

Press Command + Shift + 5 to open the Screenshot app or screenshot utility. This will bring up a toolbar at the bottom of your screen. You can now capture your full-screen screenshot, and the mouse ...

Today Things, the excellent task manager, was updated with enhanced support for the iPad’s new cursor just in time for the Magic Keyboard’s arrival. While you could use the iPadOS cursor in the app ...

According to code seen by 9to5Mac, Apple is set to roll out rich system-wide support for mouse cursors with iOS 14. Apple added rudimentary compatibility with external mice in iOS 13 Accessibility ...

My GF recently got AutoCAD 2011 on her new Mac, and while it performs admirably in all other aspects, using AutoCAD 2011 could be smoother. As it is now, the cursor is really jerky whenever a mouse ...

Today Apple released the latest updates for its suite of software platforms, most notable of which are iOS and iPadOS 13.4. Timed with the release of the latest iPad Pro models, the hallmark features ...