Investigation

So there's even more excitement and mystery! I was trying to edit the times in the preceding post, and MacOS data detectors kept firing on the time text, inserting that little dotted window around the, with a downward pointing triangle that invites a click. I didn't want to do anything other than edit the time, but the Data Detector wouldn't let me insert the edit cursor. (Now, I didn't try to arrow over the text, I was using the trackpad. Having just thought of this, I just tried arrowing into the time and that does work.) So I filed a Feedback using the Feedback Assistant. It may simply be that I don't know how data detectors are supposed to work, and that I don't know if, or how, data detectors are enabled in TextEdit. The beat goes on... (At 10:08 AM.) ✍️ Reply by email Originally posted at Nice Marmot 10:08 Friday, 26 June 2026