What is the black icon on the left side of the screen grab?
What is the black icon on the left side of the screen grab
iPad, iPadOS 26
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You appear to have enabled the Hover Text feature. Many have observed that this feature has been unexpectedly enabled by the iPadOS 26 upgrade.
Hover Text is simply disabled from iPad settings:
Settings > Accessibility > [Vision] Hover Text > Hover Text - set to OFF