better touch tool secure input activated by:

Bugs or Unexpected Behavior
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better touch tool secure input activated by: Finder (PID: 646). limited shortcut functionality

I've also gotter this message from Brave Browser

Anyone else getting this (very frequent now)?

Mac Studio
OSX 15.1.1
BTT V 4.902

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Affected input device (e.g. MacBook Trackpad, Magic Mouse/Trackpad, Touch Bar, etc.):

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It's usually some faulty app that shows a password input but forgets to deactivate secure input again. Unfortunately there is nothing BTT can do about it. The app it shows is also only a "best guess", there are some apps that can not be detected and for these the system falls back to "login window", "finder" or similar.

3

How do I correct it so it can be used again?

4

figure out which app really causes it, then quit it. If it is really a system app that caused it, you might need to logout and back in again.

5

Just logged out/in again, but still having message regarding finder.

6

try to relaunch Finder (ctrl+opt+right-click the finder icon, then choose relaunch). If that doesn't help it is not caused by Finder.

7

What worked: Force quitting finder, restarting BTT.