Apple's HyperCard first popularized animated cursors, including a black-and-white spinning quartered circle resembling a beach ball. Ī wristwatch was the first wait cursor in early versions of the classic Mac OS. These include but are not limited to the spinning beach ball, the spinning wheel of death, or the spinning beachball of death. Officially, the macOS Human Interface Guidelines refers to it as the spinning wait cursor, but it is also known by other names. The spinning pinwheel is a type of throbber or variation of the mouse pointer used in Apple's macOS to indicate that an application is busy. Spinning Wait Cursor as seen in OS X El Capitan ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) ( January 2016) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) Please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links, and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view. This article contains content that is written like an advertisement.
