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 :)
Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn’t?
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.
I use caps lock to switch my keyboard between Arabic and English, this little delay helps me differentiate between switching languages and actually turning on caps lock
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.
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
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.
I just remapped my caps to escape
mines been on forward delete for years and years
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
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
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
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.
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.
I remap mine to Command. Caps Lock is one of the least useful keys on a keyboard to be honest.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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…
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
That’s crazy… Do they have like a simple mechanism to detect this like if < .001ms?
I think the 2009 era Mac usb keyboard also does this
This thread has made me realize I never use caps lock. Ive been using macOS for 14 years and didn’t know about this delay 😂
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
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).
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