Try to hit your CAPS Lock button as if it’s a mistake and see what happens. Mine is reading my mind.
The difference between unintentional hit and an intentional one is very slight, but it knows :)
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
Take it a step further. Remap your capslock button to another key and never have this problem again.
right lmao. i have a touchbar macbook so i’ve “sacrificed” my caps lock to regain a physical escape key.
How often are you all using caps lock?
I mean I knew some people that used it in place of the shift key but… generally my usage is really low.
I use karabiner to make the caps lock another meta key like shift or Command. Pushing it makes the ijkl keys into up left down right. Plus more.
How often are you all using caps lock?
I mean I knew some people that used it in place of the shift key but… generally my usage is really low.
I’m a programmer and I mapped mine to ctrl years ago. never looked back.
Lots of references to tools like Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro, but by default macOS lets you rebind it to a few things. If you go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Modifier Keys, you can set caps lock to act as control, option, command, globe, or escape (which is the most useful one IMO). Best thing is that this setting is also per keyboard – if you have a laptop that you regularly dock with an external keyboard, you don’t have to have the Caps Lock key on that keyboard mapped the same as on the internal keyboard.
I’m a programmer and I mapped mine to ctrl years ago. never looked back.
Lots of references to tools like Karabiner and Keyboard Maestro, but by default macOS lets you rebind it to a few things. If you go to Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts > Modifier Keys, you can set caps lock to act as control, option, command, globe, or escape (which is the most useful one IMO). Best thing is that this setting is also per keyboard – if you have a laptop that you regularly dock with an external keyboard, you don’t have to have the Caps Lock key on that keyboard mapped the same as on the internal keyboard.
I remap mine to Command. Caps Lock is one of the least useful keys on a keyboard to be honest.
Yes it is like that by default. I’ve found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I’ve found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.
Holy shit thank you for this. The caps lock delay has been the one thing that has continually pissed me off as a lifelong Windows user who switched to Mac 3 years ago.
I have developed the terrible habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key when I’m trying to capitalize at the beginning of a sentence. Definitely not efficient but I can be bothered to undo a habit that I’ve had for over a decade. This is going to save me so much frustration
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
I just remapped my caps to escape
mines been on forward delete for years and years
Yo what, I thought it mine was just slightly broken
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
I’m sure the simple answer is data or code input, but I like to imagine you’re either really angry or a hobbyist Amazon reviewer and that’s why caps lock is dear to you. Or maybe a twitter club promoter?
For me, I just developed the bad habit of using the caps lock key instead of the shift key. So when I’m typing, I always use the caps lock key to capitalize the first letter of a sentence instead of holding shift down. At this point it’s so ingrained in me I can’t really get myself out of the habit. Some other user posted a script that eliminates the delay and it’s a breath of fresh air
Same! I use caps lock a lot and use it like any other key so I thought it was jammed or broken or something.
Yeah it’s a slight delay before it activates. Been on MacBooks since I got my first one in 2010.
It’s one of those things like faceid where it just works without you ever having to think about it.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that experience with Face ID haha, but I get the sentiment. Never seems to work reliably for me.
Touch ID, other the other hand, is just chefs kiss.
Face ID fails in bed…
Wish I have Touch ID for those moments… or any moments of me not looking at the phone directly
2 factors at play:
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How much of your face is being obscured by your pillow (if you’re lying on your side)
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Angle of phone-to-face. If the angle is too steep, Face ID will fail to detect.
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Idk it activates pretty fast for me, I can’t get it to not activate. 2023 M2 pro
there’s a setting so that you can have to “long press” caps lock before it activates. Sometimes, the computer comes with it on by default.
I wonder if that’s what OP is talking about.
Idk it activates pretty fast for me, I can’t get it to not activate. 2023 M2 pro
This was always the case. Already on the wired Mac keyboard and the Magic Keyboard too. This is not Mac book specific. But a nice feature.
I don’t like it, can I disable it? Much more often I mean to press it and it isn’t pressed than I didn’t mean to and this feature helped…
Reality:
A long press engages the capslock function.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you’ve set your computer to just 1 language, it’s not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
Apple fanbois… Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂
Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂
Reality:
A long press engages the capslock function.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you’ve set your computer to just 1 language, it’s not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
Apple fanbois… Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.
A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you’ve set your computer to just 1 language, it’s not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.
I have multiple languages and that’s definitely not how it works. Perhaps you have a different keyboard layout. The fn key is how you switch languages. It even has the symbol for it.
Though the guy is talking about something else; it was the best screenshot that showed where the setting is.
For me, pressing just the fn key does nothing and even mine has the symbol. “fn+space” just puts a space. I can easily switch languages using the capslock. If I do a slightly longer press; the capslock turns on.
Under Keyboard --> Keyboard there’s an on-by-default option that says "Press to " where is the globe symbol. The default entry on the drop down menu is “Change Input Source”.
I disabled Caps Lock on my keyboard :)
I’ve never accidentally hit CAPS lock button on any computer ever.
Looks like a MacBook keyboard driver exclusive feature though. I’m often using a Keychron K3 and get so mad when accidentally fat fingering caps lock instead of tab.