# How to detect pointerout without pointer move?

**URL:** <https://phaser.discourse.group/t/how-to-detect-pointerout-without-pointer-move/12489>\
**Category:** Phaser 3\
**Created:** [October 31, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/how-to-detect-pointerout-without-pointer-move/12489 "2022-10-31T15:17:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![PhaserNoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@PhaserNoob](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/PhaserNoob)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 3:17pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/how-to-detect-pointerout-without-pointer-move/12489/1 "2022-10-31T15:17:21Z")

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When you move over an interactive object, that is automatically moving and you don’t move the pointer, how can we detect a pointerout?

> **[friendly-euclid-u1y8nq - CodeSandbox](https://codesandbox.io/s/runtime-dream-4rgchc?file=%2Fmain.scene.js)**
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> friendly-euclid-u1y8nq by farnsi using parcel-bundler, phaser

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**Author:** ![samme](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/phaser.discourse.group/samme/32/5275_2.png) [@samme](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/samme)\
**Post date:** [October 31, 2022, 5:06pm UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/how-to-detect-pointerout-without-pointer-move/12489/2 "2022-10-31T17:06:28Z")

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```
this.input.setPollAlways(true);

```

Also don’t use `setInterval()`, `update()` is for that. 🙂

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**Author:** ![PhaserNoob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ed8c4c/32.png) [@PhaserNoob](https://phaser.discourse.group/u/PhaserNoob)\
**Post date:** [November 1, 2022, 8:43am UTC](https://phaser.discourse.group/t/how-to-detect-pointerout-without-pointer-move/12489/3 "2022-11-01T08:43:19Z")

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Thank you! 😘 🤣