Balloon notification keeps popping up and is driving me nuts

[designeralias]

Same issue here. Had it running MacBook Pro M1 Max on Sonoma (and also after upgrading to Sequoia). Migrated to a new MacBook Pro M4 Max on Sequoia last week and am still having it. Running DisplayLink with an Elgato Prompter. This message pops up multiple times per day and when waking from sleep.

[Juice10]

Same here, M1 Mac Studio running Sequoia 15.0, and DisplayLink Manager 1.11.0.
It's driving me nuts so badly that I check if there is a DisplayLink Manager update every couple of days and keep getting really disappointed that updating hasn't fixed the issue so far.

[mnema]

This is so disruptive to getting work done — several times an hour I'm writing and am pulled out of whatever app I'm writing in because of DisplayLink. I found this forum post because I'm trying to find any alternative that will work with Elgato Prompter. Please fix this! Or if anyone has an alternative, please share.

[DrForge]

I came here to report this, but in my case it's not the main GUI & has nothing to do with Elgato, I get a notification that seems to come from control centre telling me DisplayLink is screen recording & how many times it's accessed it. I have Do not disturb on, and I hate all notifications, so I always have it on, and/or disable them whenever I can. I don't need them, if I want to know something I'll go and find it. I'm getting increasingly frustrated in general with these kinds of things that Apple seems determined to force on everyone, even if you've been using computers & Apple for decades (e.g. why do we still have to go through all that 'disk must be ejected' nonsense after all these years, without a "don't prompt again", and why is it considered reasonable to casually tell us that some vague thing that I didn't know it was doing or ask for is accessing the volume so it can't be ejected, rather than it being MY computer and I'm saying what I WANT it to do right now, so tell finder to come back to it later when I'm not trying to use my expensive machine ... ?)

That's another story, but kind of the same thing. Is there anyone anywhere who needs to be constantly interrupted to be told the same thing over and over that isn't even useful anyway? Especially if DND is on.

So I'm not sure this is really down to DisplayLink or if it's Apple. But I only experience it here.

It seems to happen any time I change anything in the display settings, or leads get unplugged or bumped. I've looked everywhere but haven't been able to find any way to disable it, and it really is getting pretty infuriating.

So it's kind of interesting most comments I've read here so far are saying they're getting it from the main GUI, but otherwise the same problem.

[dbienkowski]

Hi everyone,
We have managed to establish that the problem occurs when Elgato Camera Hub is running, which as you know requires DisplayLink Manager to be enabled in order to work properly. The Elgato app will force DLM to be enabled even when it is enabled. And the correct behaviour of DLM is that it opens the GUI when a user tries to open an already opened application.

We are in contact with Elgato and are working to resolve the issue.

[jamesad]

Originally Posted by dbienkowski

Hi everyone,
We have managed to establish that the problem occurs when Elgato Camera Hub is running, which as you know requires DisplayLink Manager to be enabled in order to work properly. The Elgato app will force DLM to be enabled even when it is enabled. And the correct behaviour of DLM is that it opens the GUI when a user tries to open an already opened application.

We are in contact with Elgato and are working to resolve the issue.

I have the latest 1.11.0 (build 28). I just hook up my USB C Docking Station Tobenone to my mac mini m1. I have No DisplayLink-enabled display detected. I've using an old USB 3.0 docking station that work fine for 4 years. How can I get my Tobenone to be recognize on my mac mini m1?

[dbienkowski]

Originally Posted by jamesad

I have the latest 1.11.0 (build 28). I just hook up my USB C Docking Station Tobenone to my mac mini m1. I have No DisplayLink-enabled display detected. I've using an old USB 3.0 docking station that work fine for 4 years. How can I get my Tobenone to be recognize on my mac mini m1?

Hi jamesad,
This is a thread dedicated to DisplayLink Manager pop-up issues. Please contact us at technical-enquiries@synaptics.com with a description of your problem and with details of the model of your docking station and the rest of your hardware (Mac and monitors) so that we can more easily help you solve the problem.

[knoa]

I am in the same situation as TheBoyler (I mean, without Elgato). I do not own any Elgato products, and I have never installed any Elgato software. At the very least, DisplayLink 1.11.0, which I had been using right up until recently, did not have this issue.

Timeline:
2025-10-23 (Oct 23) Updated DisplayLink from 1.11.0 to 14.1
2025-11-11 (Nov 11) Applied the Sequoia 15.7.2 security update (possibly unrelated)
2025-11-14 (Nov 14) Started investigating because the popups kept appearing
2025-11-20 (Nov 20) Updated to DisplayLink 14.2 (released on 2025-11-18)

I updated to the latest 14.2, hoping it would fix the issue, but since there is nothing relevant mentioned in the release notes, I am not very optimistic. If this does not help, I plan to roll back to the previous final 1.12.4, or even to 1.11.0, which had been working fine for me. If the issue still persists, then in my environment, the Sequoia 15.7.2 security update might be involved after all.

I also use Duet Display. Could it be related?

[crobin]

Originally Posted by dbienkowski

Hi everyone,
We have managed to establish that the problem occurs when Elgato Camera Hub is running, which as you know requires DisplayLink Manager to be enabled in order to work properly. The Elgato app will force DLM to be enabled even when it is enabled. And the correct behaviour of DLM is that it opens the GUI when a user tries to open an already opened application.

We are in contact with Elgato and are working to resolve the issue.

Any updates on a fix? I present using my prompter regularly and when this bubble pops up it comes to the forefront which impacts the presentation and the content being shared.

Help.

[crobin]

Any updates?