OS Monterney , special characters on Password not recognized when rebooted, wrong keyboard language displayed
Short: I used to log on a password with a special character "^" (circumflex) standalone in it. When my A2337 came with factory OS, this was working fine until I updated to 12.0.1 yesterday.
I couldn't log in, language/keyboard changes to remap the circumflex doesnt help. The only way around was to reboot the Mac in safe mode, choose reinstall, then enter the password after being asked for it (that worked, so my PW was ok) and then aborting the procedure and restart. Then I could enter my password. Working that out has taken a while. Would be easier if the typed characters could be previewed.
I also notice that the language was German but the keyboard layout shows first as US Keyboard in the bar but when I click on that to change it, it shows German Keyboard although nothing changed.
This happened also for logging in to my older intel Macbook after standby when updated to OS 10.15.7. , so it is a OS issue, not an
At the Moment, I changed my PW to get around this. Feels a bit unsafe, considering drive encryption and having a Mac which decides on its own not to accept correct typed passwords on.
MacBook Air 13″, macOS 12.0