My MacBook Pro keys are way too sensitive all of a sudden

A few days ago, I noticed that my keyboard seems to be doubling my keystrokes most of the time. This is frustrating because I had to turn off the "add a period after a double space" because nearly every time I hit the space bar, it double spaces. Also, many letters are doubling. I type pretty fast, and I know I am somewhat forceful with my keystrokes at times, but it feels like the keys are suddenly hypersensitive where they weren't before. I've checked my Accessibility settings and have even played around with them in an attempt to solve the problem, but to no avail. Any idea why this is happening? It's maddening to have to retype everything one word at a time or hit the delete key a billion times just to get a paragraph written!

MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Jan 25, 2021 1:35 PM

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Posted on Jan 27, 2021 2:24 PM

Greetings cktogger!


Looks like you are having some trouble with your MacBook keys double pressing. That certainly sounds like it would be confusing to deal with and we want to do all we can to help! Try testing this issue in Safe Mode to see if it continues: How to use safe mode on your Mac. That can let us know if the issue is hardware or software related and can help determine the best steps to resolve this.


Take care!

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Jan 27, 2021 2:24 PM in response to cktogger

Greetings cktogger!


Looks like you are having some trouble with your MacBook keys double pressing. That certainly sounds like it would be confusing to deal with and we want to do all we can to help! Try testing this issue in Safe Mode to see if it continues: How to use safe mode on your Mac. That can let us know if the issue is hardware or software related and can help determine the best steps to resolve this.


Take care!

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