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 :)
Yep, the key has a delay (and AFAIK it’s software delay, i.e. there’s a script that lets you turn off the delay).
Eh, I end up going to caps for short stints when programming and sometimes it misses if I’m going too fast so I’m not the biggest fan.
My MacBook Pro from 2007 had this - when they were on the second generation of Intel devices. A lot of people thought it was a keyboard defect back then. And reading this thread, they still do :)
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.
Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn’t?
I remapped my caps lock key to be CTRL instead. It’s much more useful that way.
It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership
Well, it’s not reading my mind properly unfortunately… Any way to turn this off and make it behave just like a normal button?
in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day
I install karabiner just to get rid of this delay. The delay just misses the caps lock press for me.
Same with the power button.
My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I’m used to it I love it.
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.
Idk it activates pretty fast for me, I can’t get it to not activate. 2023 M2 pro
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.
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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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.