What to Do If Your Mouse Cursor Freezes or Stops Working in OS X

The mouse cursor on your OS X system is literally the most important way to control your system, whether you do that with a mouse or a trackpad. On some older/slower computers, you may find yourself struggling to find the mouse cursor on your screen, or at some times you may find it completely unresponsive.
What to Do If Your Mouse Cursor Freezes or Stops Working in OS X
Apple Senior Vice President of Software Engineering Craig Federighi speaks during the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference at the Moscone West center on June 2, 2014 in San Francisco, Calif. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images
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The mouse cursor on your OS X system is literally the most important way to control your system, whether you do that with a mouse or a trackpad. On some older/slower computers, you may find yourself struggling to find the mouse cursor on your screen, or at some times you may find it completely unresponsive.

Now, at moments like this, you may try to move your mouse cursor all around the screen in large circles, etc., which if it doesn’t work, just leads to more frustration.

If you’re one of those who encounters such problems frequently, we have a few tips on how to manage your mouse cursor, which should allow you to easily locate your cursor and reveal its location. Here are a few steps you can take to increase your OS X experience by dealing with your mouse cursor:

1. Increase Your Cursor Size

For some people, the mouse cursor size in OS X is quite small and is troublesome to find at times. To handle this, you may be using a lower display resolution on your screen to make everything else seem bigger, but that’s not quite the optimal approach to such an issue, now is it?

Instead, you can take advantage of Apple’s Accessibility options to increase the mouse cursor size on your system. To do this:

1. Open System Preferences on your OS X system.

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