When I add a mask, my color wheel changes to slider. I can change this back to a wheel, but would rather leave this alone

[hisonor]

This is windows 11 Photo 2.0.4

[Michail]

@hisonor:

Welcome to the forums here 
A layer mask unfolds its effect through grey values - and not through colour values. It makes sense, therefore, if the greyscale palette is made available to you when you click on the mask thumbnail. If you set this back to the colour wheel, the brightness values of the colours are used - i.e. grey values again.

[hisonor]

thanks 

i am such a newbie