Blue circle when i touch.

[Deleted User]

Using Opera as my default Browser on android phone, ive notice today that on every touch, a blue circle appears 

Reddleman79

It'll be the result of some IT guy with too much time on their hands, thinking it would be clever to make blue circles appear on key presses, thus wasting even more bandwidth and slowing down the user's phone or tablet. On my tablet, half the BBC webpages won't even fully load when using Chrome but are fine when using Firefox.

[Deleted User]

Reddleman79, interesting. I dont have any trouble with viewing BBC. Whether its due to Opera as my default, I couldn't say.
What is irritating though, is since ive had opera as default, each time i go to rain-alarm, there's a greyed out @ over the screen. I have to double tap to remove it. 

Newcad

Is it just in Opera?

[Deleted User]

No. I changed default to chrome and it still showed. Changed back back again now 

Newcad

In that case it could be an accessibility setting called 'Repeated Touches' have a read here:

https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2021/05/08/remove-blue-circle-from-samsung-phone-screen/

(If it's already 'Off' then try toggling it On then Off again)

victor2

It's not because "Show taps" is switched on under Developer options in the settings is it? Although on my Android phone that gives a white circle when you tap the screen. Nothing to do with the browser.

[Deleted User]

It's gone. All down to a fellow MSE member. I looked in Settings, Accessibility's, found sonething that was on, turned it off, the rest is history.

Isnt it odd that updates create these issues. I know I'm heading towards 84 and get confused at times, but feel good when i can with your help, restore. Thanks again.