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leyonz

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Nov 8, 2024
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Hi folks!

I´ve been suffering these late days one of the weirdest bug I´ve seen in a long time. As you can see in the clip I´ve attached, sometimes when I hit any icon in the upper right area (where Control Center is) the Finder icon down in the dock stays highlighted until I hit something else. This seems to be "activated" when I previously hit my personal folder at the right of the dock, when you can see that for a brief moment the Finder icon in the dock gets highlighted too.

The only way to get rid of this "Finder icon highlight" is to hit somewhere else that is not the Control Center area, as seen in the clip.

Of course I believe it is a bug/glitch, but I am running paranoid lately for another reasons and would like to know anyone´s thoughts, to discard it can be related to some kind of attack.

Thing is, I clean reinstalled macOS a week ago with an installer downloaded directly from swcdn.apple.com (https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...tjgfr3dqsh046dx4ti2h7w2s/InstallAssistant.pkg) from MrMacintosh website, because (yeah I´m talking to you Apple) official download from Mac App Store is a complete disaster (takes many hours to download, if not days, every-single-time). From swcdn.apple.com it downloads like a charm. I couldnt find anywhere to check if the installer checksum was legit, but I guess it is because swcdn.apple.com is officially Apple and if it was not legit Apple wouldn´t have let me install it (through valid certificates etc). Previously to that, within Sequoia 15.1.1 I never noticed this "bug" we´re talking about.

Any observations and threads will be much appreciated!


PD: System is clean install apart from the few apps that can be seen in the dock, which were downloaded from the Mac App Store and I guess shouldnt be related to this bug/glitch.

 
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Hi folks!

I´ve been suffering these late days one of the weirdest bug I´ve seen in a long time. As you can see in the clip I´ve attached, sometimes when I hit any icon in the upper right area (where Control Center is) the Finder icon down in the dock stays highlighted until I hit something else. This seems to be "activated" when I previously hit my personal folder at the right of the dock, when you can see that for a brief moment the Finder icon in the dock gets highlighted too.

The only way to get rid of this "Finder icon highlight" is to hit somewhere else that is not the Control Center area, as seen in the clip.

Of course I believe it is a bug/glitch, but I am running paranoid lately for another reasons and would like to know anyone´s thoughts, to discard it can be related to some kind of attack.

Thing is, I clean reinstalled macOS a week ago with an installer downloaded directly from swcdn.apple.com (https://swcdn.apple.com/content/dow...tjgfr3dqsh046dx4ti2h7w2s/InstallAssistant.pkg) from MrMacintosh website, because (yeah I´m talking to you Apple) official download from Mac App Store is a complete disaster (takes many hours to download, if not days, every-single-time). From swcdn.apple.com it downloads like a charm. I couldnt find anywhere to check if the installer checksum was legit, but I guess it is because swcdn.apple.com is officially Apple and if it was not legit Apple wouldn´t have let me install it (through valid certificates etc). Previously to that, within Sequoia 15.1.1 I never noticed this "bug" we´re talking about.

Any observations and threads will be much appreciated!


PD: System is clean install apart from the few apps that can be seen in the dock, which were downloaded from the Mac App Store and I guess shouldnt be related to this bug/glitch.

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A rather belated response but I have similar things happening which I believe to be relatively harmless bugs in the OS. Besides things similar to you when saving a file it sometimes appears very briefly elsewhere on the monitor - so briefly that it is just a flash in the corner of my eye if I am not looking at that place. I don't believe that there is anything nefarious to be concerned about - rather just a rather harmless little bug that shouldn't be there but is not any real problem.
 
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A rather belated response but I have similar things happening which I believe to be relatively harmless bugs in the OS. Besides things similar to you when saving a file it sometimes appears very briefly elsewhere on the monitor - so briefly that it is just a flash in the corner of my eye if I am not looking at that place. I don't believe that there is anything nefarious to be concerned about - rather just a rather harmless little bug that shouldn't be there but is not any real problem.
Thanks @eldho for the reply :D I can confirm after watching another 3 Macs from friends and family (and also based on what you describe) that this might be indeed an OS bug, because the exact same happens to all of them (all in Sequoia 15.2). Honestly, it can be a little annoying visually but as you suggest doesn´t seem to have more relevance. Cheers!
 
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