Stop automatically showing "data tips"

Ever since I updated to Matlab 2020, there is an annoying feature such that if I happen to click the cursur in a figure, it will add a little "pin" showing the coordinates of the closest data point. Can I turn this new feature off? It's causing me lots of problems.

[Adam Danz]

See similar topic:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/498733-disable-automatic-data-tips#answer_408463

Answer 1

[Jan]

Include this in the startup.m function:

if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.7')
    set(groot, 'defaultAxesCreateFcn', @(ax,~) disableDefaultInteractivity(ax))
end

[Nils Tilton]

Thanks, I tried that earlier, but it didn't seem to work. I wonder if it has to do with the "if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.7')". Could you explain what that if statement is needed for?

[Adam Danz]

Could you explain what didn't work?

verLessThan merely determines if your current Matlab release is r2019b (9.7) or later but disableDefaultInteractivity was released in r2018b so I believe the condition should be,

if ~verLessThan('MATLAB','9.5')

disableDefaultInteractivity(ax) turns off data tip interactivity unless you re-enable it by pressing the datatip tool button or something else turns it back on for those axes.

[Nils Tilton]

For some reason, the change didn't take at first, even after I restarted matlab a few times. But now, it seems to work. At one point, I removed the if statement, but I am not sure if that's what did the trick. In any case, it works now! Thanks very much to both of you for your help :)

[Adam Danz]

Don't forget to accept Jan's answer (blue accept answer button).

Glad you got it worked out!

[Nils Tilton]

Thanks!