macOS 26 freezes top right corner after hiding accessibility keyboard

WachiraMbugua wrote:

Hi. Thanks for sharing unfortunately it did not work

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

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. 

iMac etc. ***wireless keyboard with rechargeable batteries— connect the charging cable, this will make the wired keyboard successful Safe Boot your Mac.

no insight —

I would simply reinstall the macOS to sort the funny business

ref: How to reinstall macOS - Apple Support

WachiraMbugua wrote:

I updated to macOS 26 and have noticed the top right hand corner freezes and mouse/trackpad pointer cannot click on any icons at the top right hand after hiding the accessibility virtual keyboard. In some instances this happens to other areas of the screen too but most common is top right hand corner. Cannot even close browser windows if the x is close to the top right hand corner

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Original Title: After updating to macOS 26 the top right hand corner of the screen freezes after hiding the accessibility keyboard

Hmmm...

From the Terminal.app compare your results after entering the following, copy & paste:

defaults write com.apple.finder CreateDesktop true; killall Finder

report back your success or failure