MacOS: Digital Color Meter breaks with Cursor open

Bug Reports
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Where does the bug appear (feature/product)?

Cursor IDE

Describe the Bug

The macOS Digital Color Meter displays an incorrect preview image when Cursor is running. Instead of showing the area under the cursor it captures from a background application. For example, when sampling colors from the iPhone Simulator, the preview shows content from another app rather than what is in the simulator. Closing Cursor immediately fixes it.

Steps to Reproduce

Open either application and try to sample color. You will see that the preview image within the Color Meter is not what you’d expect. Close Cursor and the image changes to the correct view

Expected Behavior

Cursor should not be changing the behavior of the Digital Color Meter

Screenshots / Screen Recordings

Cursor Open:

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Cursor Closed:

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Operating System

MacOS

Current Cursor Version (Menu → About Cursor → Copy)

Version: 1.5.11 (Universal)
VSCode Version: 1.99.3
Commit: 2f2737de9aa376933d975ae30290447c910fdf40
Date: 2025-09-05T03:48:32.332Z
Electron: 34.5.8
Chromium: 132.0.6834.210
Node.js: 20.19.1
V8: 13.2.152.41-electron.0
OS: Darwin arm64 24.6.0

Does this stop you from using Cursor

No - Cursor works, but with this issue

1 Like
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Hey, thanks for the report. I can reproduce it. It’s pretty strange, it behaves as if the cursor doesn’t exist at all, like it’s transparent.

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This may be well due to Cursors current rendering mode.