How to Stop Quick Notes From Popping up on Your Mac
If you’re running macOS Monterey or later, Quick Notes will be tied to your bottom-right hot corner. When you move your cursor into this corner of your screen, a small white box will appear, allowing you to create a Quick Note. The only way to prevent this from happening is to disable Quick Note as a hot corner in System Preferences. To turn off Quick Note:
How to Prevent Hot Corners From Accidentally Activating
If you’d like to keep Quick Notes assigned to a hot corner without accidentally triggering it, you can add modifier key. This way, you’ll need to hold down the Command, Shift, Option, or Control key (or a combination) while moving your mouse over the corresponding corner in order to activate it. Here’s how to enable modifier keys:
How to Set Up Hot Corners on Mac
By default, Quick Note is the only action that is automatically assigned to a hot corner. However, macOS will let you assign one of nine additional actions to hot corners. To do so, navigate to System Preferences > Mission Control > Hot Corners… and select from the following options:
Start Screen Saver: Launches your screen saver.Disable Screen Saver: Turns off your screen saver.Mission Control: Displays all open windows.Application Windows: Shows all open windows of a specific app.Desktop: Hides all of your open windows to show your desktop.Notification Center: Displays the Notification Center, which includes missed notifications and widgets for appointments, weather, top headlines, and more.Launchpad: Displays all of your applications.Put Display to Sleep: Put your Mac to sleep.Lock Screen: Locks your screen.
