Duplicated and repeating text input in macOS Catalina

After upgrading to Catalina, I’ve been struck by a very strange issue: When typing and using the keyboard in general (either the built-in keyboard or an external) it will randomly duplicate some of the input, so that I’ll need to go back and edit the jumbled text constantly.

While trying to write “Maybe it” just now, I got "Maybe iMaybe t”, in addition to more examples like it. I can’t for the life of me figure this one out, and I’ve found a couple of other threads from people having the same issue (it does not seem widespread):

Double typing text on Catalina?

Duplicate keyboard input after upgrading to macOS C Catalina

Any help?

MacBook Pro

Posted on Oct 12, 2019 1:31 AM

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TotallyFred

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Posted on Dec 17, 2019 2:21 AM

I do not think you need to uninstall the Wacom drivers.

I just tested and it seems sufficient to remove the Input Monitoring privacy rights from

Settings > Security & Privacy > Privacy > Input Monitoring

From there, remove the rights from WacomTouchDriver and WacomTableDriver. Problem solved.

You may want to experiment with one or the other or both or even reactivating later as it seems the problem kind of goes away after reactivation. Worst case, keep it all deactivated.

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