Photoshop mouse cursor flickering — OSX

I'm still having this issue as well. Has there been any word on how to fix? It's incredibly annoying when bouncing between PS and any other program. I've gotten in the habit of just opening PS when I need to make a quick edit, and quitting when I need to bounce back to another program so that the cursor is usable in the other program.

Same continuing problem for years and absolutely no reaction from Adobe. What a mess ...

I found that the real reason was the cursor bug in photoshop：This problem is solved when you change the drawing cursor from the default circle cursor to the exact cursor

Try a wired mouse？

Have you solved the problem?

Hy bmarkoka,

how are you today, what happen with your problem now ? is solved ? if it solved please share to me how you solve that problem. because i have same problem like you sir. Help

I have this same issue, but with none of the same applications installed that you listed.

As BillC said, this has been a bug for years and Adobe does not seem interested in finding a fix. The only solution I've found is to shut down Photoshop. Luckily with the invention of Sketch and other Adobe competitors, we have fewer and fewer reasons to open Photoshop in the first place. Does that count as a solution?

This has been on-going for years and no serious attempt has ever been made to fix it. I think it's an Adobe problem. It tends to occur when Photoshop is open and when you bring another programme to the front to work in - e.g. Illustrator or InDesign, then the cursor flickers. An old hack fix which works most of the time is to hide Photoshop - nine times out of ten this works. I'm using an old 2009 Mac pro running El Capitan (the problem has persisted through all the upgrades since Snow Leopard) and I do wonder if the older hardware has anything to do with it? The cursor image flickers between mouse-up and mouse-down (depending upon which tool you are using) when moving the mouse... very annoying but I think it's being quietly ignored by both Apple and Adobe.

I know it's nearly 10 months later, but I have exactly the same problem in InDesign. It almost appears the mouse is scrolling through a variety of options at hyperspeed. Exactly the same flickering effect rendering it all but useless in InDesign.