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 iPhon…

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.

This may be well due to Cursors current rendering mode.

Where does the bug appear (feature/product)? Cursor IDE Describe the Bug I just found a strange issue when using Cursor on my iMac 5K 2019 (macOS 15.7.1, Intel). Whenever Cursor is open, the system app Digital Color Meter stops working properly — it always picks the color of the window in the back…

At least for me, the digital color meter only shows black when cursor is running, but it works fine when I quit cursor.

MacOS: Digital Color Meter breaks with Cursor open

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Darius_Aukstinaitis (Darius Aukštinaitis) February 12, 2026, 12:41pm 8

Any update? This is extremely annoying to shutdown cursor any time you want to pick a color

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MacOS: Digital Color Meter breaks with Cursor open

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