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?
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?
I remapped my caps lock key to be CTRL instead. It’s much more useful that way.
I install karabiner just to get rid of this delay. The delay just misses the caps lock press for me.
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.
Same with the power button.
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.
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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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.
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
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 just remapped my caps to escape
mines been on forward delete for years and years
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
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
That’s crazy… Do they have like a simple mechanism to detect this like if < .001ms?
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).
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.
Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.