seth222 wrote:
Lately I am having increasing difficulty selecting items within an application. Often I can move the cursor but not select. I have to close the application and try again. This works for a limited time before the problem re occurs. The problem does not appear to be isolated to any one application. This first started occurring several months ago but has increased in frequency lately. Cannot identify the issue to any particular installation or upgrade.
I have a 2020 M1 MacBook Pro. Running Sequoia 15.3. Have 360GB unused on the hard drive.
To trouble shoot further you can:
—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies
Does a quick disk repair before it fully boots up, and certain system caches get cleared and rebuilt, third party system modifications and system accelerations are disabled temporarily.
Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.
This test will tell you if third party interference; most extensions etc are not loaded in safe boot mode.
—Test issue in another user (or guest user) account Change Users & Groups settings on Mac - Apple Support
This will tell you if it a universal issue or isolated to your user/admin account.
***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.
unplug all non-essential peripherals when testing
Uninstall all third party apps that are Cleaners/Optimizers/VPN/Anti-Virus
all known to cause issues on the macOS
