Hi, I don't know if it has to do with a recent update to macOS Big Sur, but my keyboard has just changed when I long-press a key such as vowels or other letters. It would previously let me select special characters to add and I need to use it every day. It's now just repeating the letters over and over. How do I change it back?
MacBook Air
Don't worry about that message.
All you have to do is copy and paste the text that Tom posted, and then press enter.
Here it is again:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
As Tom said, then you restart your mac.
Don't worry about that message.
All you have to do is copy and paste the text that Tom posted, and then press enter.
Here it is again:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
As Tom said, then you restart your mac.
Try this
open Terminal app and type
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true
and then restart.
Thanks for the quick reply, but I'm not quite sure I understand this. I am not very technical at this.
I looked for a Terminal app on my dashboard and when I opened it it containst this:
"The default interactive shell is now zsh.
To update your account to use zsh, please run `chsh -s /bin/zsh`.
For more details, please visit......."
I don't know what it means!
What do I need to type and where? Is there any other way to activate the special keys long-press?
Perfect, it worked! Thank you both! :)
How to re-enable the keyboard long-press for special characters?
