Punch hole "dots" appeared on desktop (MacBook Pro M1 16") this morning and remain following a restart or three. Any hints as to why and what is required to remove them? Thanks in advance.
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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 26.0
I figured it out just before your message was posted, but thanks anyway:
Apple's summary:
Vehicle Motion Cues is a new accessibility feature in macOS Tahoe that helps reduce motion sickness by displaying animated dots on the screen to simulate the vehicle's motion. To enable it, go to System Settings > Accessibility > Motion and turn on Vehicle Motion Cues. You can customize the appearance, color, pattern, size, and number of dots to suit your preference.
Location of setting: System Settings: Accessibility: Vehicle Motion Cues is second to last in listings. It appears that it is on by default, even though my laptop rarely leaves its desk.
The dots, of course, were not animated as my desk/workbench weighs about 400 lbs.
I figured it out just before your message was posted, but thanks anyway:
Apple's summary:
Vehicle Motion Cues is a new accessibility feature in macOS Tahoe that helps reduce motion sickness by displaying animated dots on the screen to simulate the vehicle's motion. To enable it, go to System Settings > Accessibility > Motion and turn on Vehicle Motion Cues. You can customize the appearance, color, pattern, size, and number of dots to suit your preference.
Location of setting: System Settings: Accessibility: Vehicle Motion Cues is second to last in listings. It appears that it is on by default, even though my laptop rarely leaves its desk.
The dots, of course, were not animated as my desk/workbench weighs about 400 lbs.
Exactly KiltedTim: Thank you.
It's on by default, a recent addition it seems, in Tahoe.
System > Accessibility > Vehicle Motion Cues.
Vehicle Motion Cues is a new accessibility feature in macOS Tahoe that helps reduce motion sickness by displaying animated dots on the screen to simulate the vehicle's motion. To enable it, go to System Settings > Accessibility > Motion and turn on Vehicle Motion Cues. You can customize the appearance, color, pattern, size, and number of dots to suit your preference.
Vehicle Motion Cues is located in Accessibility (second to last listing) and is checked by default.
Odd... these look like what you seen on an iPhone when you have the vehicle motion cues enabled in accessibility...
No wonder I couldn't find it. It's not available on the M1 Macbook Air. Hard to believe it's enabled by default. There is a shortcut for it. Perhaps you triggered that.
It is not checked by default. If it were, we’d see many many posts like yours, probably including one from me :-)
Indeed. I don't believe any accessibility features are enabled by default.
Appeared today: "punch hole" dots on either side of desktop screen
