Custom Mouse Pointers Blamed for Monterey Memory Leak

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Originally published at: Custom Mouse Pointers Blamed for Monterey Memory Leak - TidBITS

Reports of massive memory leaks in macOS 12 Monterey have been traced back to pointer changes. Resetting custom pointers should reduce or eliminate the problems until Apple releases a fix.

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This feature is not new. I’ve been using it for years many OSes back. It’s just been hidden away in Accessibility. No issues for me so far on my M1 Mac mini.

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Changing the pointer size is not new, changing its color is new in Monterey.

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I’ve used a larger mouse pointer for years and with no issues so far on Monterey. However, I did not change the color. Since the color feature is new, I wonder if that’s where the memory leak is located?

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I’ve used Mouseposè before. I’ve set it up a hot key to highlight the mouse position. Mouseposè’s track purpose is for screen recording. You can highlight the cursor, shows various tours of mouse clicks

I wonder if the shake to locate feature causes any issues.

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I had a kernel panic a couple of days ago, on 12.0.1 on an M1 MacBook Air. I don’t use a custom pointer though.

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