In this episode, Tyler demonstrates how to disable Hot Corners on macOS.
Hot Corners are areas of the screen that perform a specified action when the mouse pointer is hovered over them. As a VoiceOver user who doesn't use the mouse, you might want to configure them to do nothing, so you don't inadvertently cause an action to be performed if you accidentally brush your fingers against the trackpad or use trackpad gestures to control VoiceOver. To do this, go to System Settings > Desktop & Dock > Hot Corners, and make sure the popup menu for each screen corner is set to hyphen (-) rather than any of the actions in the menu.
Transcript
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Tyler: Hey, AppleVis-ers. Tyler here with a quick tip for how to disable hot corners on macOS. Hot corners are areas of the screen that, when hovered over with the mouse pointer, cause certain functions to be performed, such as locking the screen, starting screensaver, or creating a quick note.
Tyler: If you're a voiceover user who doesn't use the mouse, you may want to disable these so you don't inadvertently trigger them in the course of using your Mac, say, if you accidentally brush your fingers on the trackpad or if you use trackpad gestures to control voiceover. To do this, you go into System Settings, Desktop and Dock, click the Hot Corners button, and make sure each of the four corners is set not to perform any action. And I'm going to demonstrate that now on my Mac.
VoiceOver: Menu bar Apple. Apple, system settings. System settings. T7, volume, systems, general, window, sidebar.
Tyler: D for desktop and dock.
VoiceOver: Desktop and dock. Desktop and dock, scroll area.
Tyler: Interact with scroll area.
VoiceOver: Desktop and dock, scroll area. 77 up.
Tyler: And because the Hot Corners button is located near the bottom, I'm going to jump to the bottom of VL Globe, right?
VoiceOver: Help button.
Tyler: VL left.
VoiceOver: Hot Corners button.
Tyler: Hot Corners.
VoiceOver: Dialog hyphen top left Hot Corner pop-up button.
Tyler: Here we are. So at the top of the dialog, VLGlobe left arrow. Okay, so that's hyphen. And that means that there is nothing, no action bound to that hot corner. But if I go into the pop-up menu. Mission control. Application windows. Desktop. Notification center. Apps. Quick note. Start screensaver. Disable screensaver.
Tyler: And hyphen, which is do nothing. So if that corner, the top left corner on your Mac is set to do something else and you don't want it to do that, just change it to hyphen. And if you go VL right, bottom left, same deal.
VoiceOver: Choose hyphen.
Tyler: And top right is hyphen. Hyphen, bottom right. So if all of these are set to hyphen,
Tyler: there will be no actions performed when moving the mouse to the corners of the screen. So no hot corner is active. And when you're done, just feel right again, hit done. Hot corners button. And here you are back in system settings. So that's a quick tip for how to disable hot corners on Mac OS. It's a quick set it and forget it task that can help if you find you're using your Mac and you brush up against the trackpad and find that strange things are happening. In any case, I hope you found it helpful. Peace.
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Comments
But they are mostly disabled by default?
As far as I know the only thing assigned is the quick note or something like that.