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Cannot type ` (apostrophe) with any of my keyboards - no such button exists in the new layout on Mac-OS Monterey

I have 2 bluetooth keyboards with US layout - one of them is Apple Magic keyboard, and one from another brand. On both of them the apostrophe (`) is on top left (next to button 1). But the new keyboard layout on OS Monterey changed somehow and now instead of the apostrophe, there is a § sign. And the apostrophe apparently is on some new button on the left side of Z, but my keyboards don't even have such a button! So basically I cannot type an apostrophe with my keyboard. This didn't happen in previous OS...

here are the screenshots of the keyboard layout vs. my physical keyboard.




iMac 27″, macOS 10.13

Posted on Mar 8, 2023 3:38 AM

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Posted on Mar 8, 2023 5:02 AM

Your machine thinks your keyboard is the ISO (European) type with the extra key instead of the ANSI (US) type without it. Here are some ideas to fix this Keyboard Type Problem:


https://m10lmac.blogspot.com/2009/12/fixing-keyboard-type-problems.html

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Cannot type ` (apostrophe) with any of my keyboards - no such button exists in the new layout on Mac-OS Monterey

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