Mac keyboard unable to type the at symbol and a few other symbols are not working either

I updated my Mac with the new update. Worked fine this morning but when I used it again a few hours later the keyboard is not functioning as it should. I have turned the machine off and restarted, no change in function. The keyboard settings are for US and I also restored the default keyboard shortcuts. When I push shift 2 instead of the at symbol I get this ", same with shift 3 I get · instead of the pound symbol etc....

MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 12.6

Posted on Sep 15, 2022 1:25 PM

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Posted on Sep 15, 2022 2:33 PM

ihaveaquestion321 wrote:

When I push shift 2 instead of the at symbol I get this ", same with shift 3 I get · instead of the pound symbol etc....

Your keyboard settings art presumably in fact wrong. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and make sure that you have ONLY ONE ITEM on that llst, and that the name of that item is "US".


The results you give could be for the input source called ¨Spanish¨. When you have more than one item on the list, it is easy to accidentally activate the wrong one.

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Sep 15, 2022 2:33 PM in response to ihaveaquestion321

ihaveaquestion321 wrote:

When I push shift 2 instead of the at symbol I get this ", same with shift 3 I get · instead of the pound symbol etc....

Your keyboard settings art presumably in fact wrong. Go to System Preferences > Keyboard > Input Sources and make sure that you have ONLY ONE ITEM on that llst, and that the name of that item is "US".


The results you give could be for the input source called ¨Spanish¨. When you have more than one item on the list, it is easy to accidentally activate the wrong one.

Sep 17, 2022 2:11 PM in response to ihaveaquestion321

ihaveaquestion321 wrote:

I did what you said and it still didn’t fix the problem. However, when I pushed the key with the world on it, I was able to select US and it works properly now

Great that it works right! When you push the key with the world on it, what else is there besides US that you could have selected? Did you also have Spanish on your Input Source list when you went there to look at that?

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