White up arrow in a purple circle on MacBook Pro screen

ghandiqeen wrote:

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That looks like the Caps lock symbol in your chosen color..

ref:

— click on it(?)

— Turn off Caps lock

if no resolve:

—Did you try rebooting the machine?

—A SafeBoot Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support will sort many anomalies

Login and test. Reboot as normal and test. Caches get rebuilt automatically.

ghandiqeen wrote:

so weird. I did not restart, but, I didn't see the light on the caps lock but I pushed it anyways. light went on pushed again, light went off and gone is the purple mind eater!!! thank you!!

Good computing ghandiqeen ! Thanks of the report.

That’s the Caps Lock indicator, but not sure why it’s hovering there. Have you tried restarting your Mac?