Black box with white text highlighting on iPad screen

When my curser touches text it cretes a black box at the top of the screen highlighting the text in white with a black background. What is it? Can I get it to stop? Bill


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iPad Pro, iPadOS 17

Posted on Nov 10, 2025 12:39 PM

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Posted on Nov 10, 2025 4:09 PM

Have you enabled Hover Text?

Settings > Accessibility > [Touch] Hover Text > Hover Text - set to OFF

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Black box with white text highlighting on iPad screen

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