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Changing the power button function on Mac

Is there any way that you can change what the power button on MacBooks before 2015 does? like changing the power button's function to sleep, lock, restart, shutdown

MacBook Pro 15″, macOS 12.0

Posted on Feb 2, 2022 9:42 PM

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Posted on Feb 2, 2022 10:32 PM

no no no not like that I'm talking about the physical power button

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Feb 2, 2022 10:09 PM in response to Kashinath1

Kashinath1 wrote:

Is there any way that you can change what the power button on MacBooks before 2015 does? like changing the power button's function to sleep, lock, restart, shutdown


No way that I am aware...


You can submit your Apple Feedback

https://www.apple.com/feedback/macos.html


From the > drop down menu in the upper left:





I use Control Command Q all the time, basically puts it to sleep with in 2 seconds....

Changing the power button function on Mac

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