Hover text function not working on Mac Tahoe despite enabling in Accessibility settings

Just to clarify, for Hover Text to work, once enabled you have to press and hold the modifier key, (defaults to command), and click on the word.

Just to clarify, for Hover Text to work, once enabled you have to press and hold the modifier key, (defaults to command), and click on the word.

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It has already been demonstrated above in the screen shots(?)

Unless you want to lock the setting....

if no insight or resolve—

You can email the Accessibility team at Accessibility@apple.com and they can respond via email. 

TahoeAU wrote:

it crashed again, see my latest post. Has your Mac also come up with a dysfunction of hover text as well after a switch from light mode to dark mode, or vice versa? If so, this loophole is universal and disappointing

The macOS is brand new out of the gate—

To be proactive you can file a bug report / submit your Apple Feedback here:  Product Feedback - Apple

bug fixes/ point updates will rollout over the entire next year.

TahoeAU wrote:

failure to enable hover text function on mac Tahoe despite swithing on the button in accessibility-hover text.

Have you shut down and restarted to compare your results..

>Shut Down...

Did you try holding the Command key down and click your text. Make some changes and compare your results.

To lock in the function— turn on the option

TahoeAU wrote:

it crashed again, see my latest post. Has your Mac also come up with a dysfunction of hover text as well after a switch from light mode to dark mode, or vice versa? If so, this loophole is universal and disappointing

No sorry. I've been running Tahoe on two different Macs since the first beta in June. Neither has ever crashed. Hover Text works fine for me. Switching appearance modes has not been an issue. I suspect you have one or more pieces of third-party software that's causing you issues.

TahoeAU wrote:

sure, restarting and toggling on the hover text activation lock still fails to function. could you please provide the screenshot of the hover text display?

Maybe I wasn't clear. You don't have to set the Activation Lock for Hover Text to work.

Without the Activation Lock…

Actually it is. If you have it locked hover text is always on until you unlock it again.