You can make a difference in the Apple Support Community!

When you sign up with your Apple Account, you can provide valuable feedback to other community members by upvoting helpful replies and User Tips.

Looks like no one’s replied in a while. To start the conversation again, simply ask a new question.

agofekete Author

Level 1

8 points

Key repeat working for delete button but not for regular characters?

I have updated my MacBook Pro 2017 non-touchbar to Big Sur this week. Somehow, I lost all my settings which was set on Catalina, one of them is key repeat. I have tried to set it off and on again in the settings, however it only has effect on the delete button, not on the other characters. Now I can delete more characters at one key press, but I can only write one at a time. Anybody got a solution for this?

My Keyboard settings look like this:

Any help is appreciated. Thank you.

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 11.0

Posted on Nov 16, 2020 3:38 AM

Reply

Similar questions

4 replies

Level 10

118,814 points

Nov 16, 2020 6:48 AM in response to agofekete

agofekete wrote:

Is this expected?

Yes, for the last 10 years or so Mac's by default don't repeat those letters, but instead you normally get a popup menu with accented characters.

To make letters repeat, you can try this:

open Terminal app and type

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

and then restart.

Reply

Level 10

118,814 points

Nov 16, 2020 4:53 AM in response to agofekete

Does Key Repeat work right for $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$. ?

Reply

agofekete Author

Level 1

8 points

Nov 16, 2020 5:03 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Oh wow, yes. Key repeating works with Shift and option key held down, but not for numbers and letters without modifying key.

Reply

agofekete Author

Level 1

8 points

Nov 16, 2020 5:06 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Is this expected?

Reply

Key repeat working for delete button but not for regular characters?

Welcome to Apple Support Community

A forum where Apple customers help each other with their products. Get started with your Apple Account.

Learn more Sign up