Disable Caps Lock Indicator on macOS Sonoma

IdrisSeabright wrote:

Thanks!

You're welcome.

The two major NSF grants, the one minor federal grant and one other proposal, all due this week, are finally done. I love our faculty but it's a lot like herding cats sometimes.

lol Sounds like it. Okay, unsubscribing again.

Sorry. I tend to assume everyone recognizes hyperbole as a rhetorical device. You can think of my comment as reflecting the overwhelming opinion expressed her that the feature is more annoying than useful. Sorry for the confusion.

When I reported this to Apple, I told them they should find the programmer who implemented this and fire them. I only assume they will recognize that this, too, is hyperbole. I'd hate to see a modestly competent programmer lose their job because they annoyed "all" their users. :-)

Hyperbole, while an extremely useful rhetorical device when attempting to create a persuasive argument, is a bit less useful in discussing technical matters. I also suspect it will diminish the credibility of your feedback. But, who knows, someone might find it amusing.

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mtnengineer wrote:

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I'm sorry but your post doesn't make much sense. Perhaps try reposting in English?

If we were having a technical discussion I would agree. My comment was with respect to the usefulness of a user-facing feature, not how it might be implemented more efficiently or in a different way. I'm not saying "nobody understands sign extension" or "everybody knows that pointers are evil"; I'm saying that this is a feature that was not begging to be implemented and that more people will find annoying than useful. The "in my opinion" clause is implied by the context.

Anyway, the top-voted answer provides a work-around for this ill-considered feature, so I'm happy. In the meantime, thanks again for the reminder to submit feedback to Apple.

DesiredAliasGoesHere wrote:

This feature isn't useful for anyone. It should be disabled; it should be removed. We've had a caps lock key for over 100 years, you don't have to tell me when it's on.

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I once read a statistic on the internet that there are 26 other people with an issue/problem for every one that posts on a tech support board. That makes a whopping 16,000 people who don't like this feature. I couldn't find any adoption rate numbers for Sonoma. I would imagine it dwarfs the 16,000.

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Imagine for a moment that Apple decided to add this feature to let you know when you're typing in lowercase letters. When you're writing here, or an email, or you're drafting a document using lower case letters, the icon would be there, and it would follow where ever you're typing. It would be there in documents, in apps, in other platforms, there it is, with no way to shut it off without disabling lower case letters. Would you find that to be a helpful feature?

bf144 wrote:

Imagine for a moment that Apple decided to add this feature to let you know when you're typing in lowercase letters. When you're writing here, or an email, or you're drafting a document using lower case letters, the icon would be there, and it would follow where ever you're typing. It would be there in documents, in apps, in other platforms, there it is, with no way to shut it off without disabling lower case letters. Would you find that to be a helpful feature?

I always type in lowercase letters. Why would anyone need to know that? The only reason to use capital letters is to start a sentence or proper nouns. Consecutive ones are only necessary when typing an extremely long initialization or acronym. You should definitely be warned that you are typing a long string of difficult to read text. I do like knowing when I have accidentally enabled Caps Lock so I don't have to go back and fix a whole line of text. I can't imagine why it bothers you. It is a quite useful feature for people who want to type legible sentences.

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I think the problem for many of us who have been active in this discussion is we are in an industry that always uses CAPS, like creating construction documents. When a feature hides the box you are trying to type in, it is a problem.

I think the problem for many of us who have been active in this discussion is we are in an industry that always uses CAPS, like creating construction documents. When a feature hides the box you are trying to type in, it is a problem.

Just click on it, hit caps lock again, AND IT WILL NOT APPEAR. Or, just follow the instructions posted way above to disable it permanently. For as much time that has been spent complaining here (which will do no good), the people who hate it could have disabled it.

Re. Posts by "yochees" and "Betazero"

A thousand thank you's. I have despised this feature for 2 years, failing countless times to find a solution to permanently delete the unwanted and distracting cutesy blue icon that kept popping up in Sonoma. I am about as far from being a computer expert as a person can be (except for word processing and some math). Betazero's instructions were the easiest for me. Follow them EXACTLY, meaning just copy and paste in the items EXACTLY as provided and hit Enter without thinking that you have to hit any other keys or do anything else. When finished, I wasn't sure if I should back out of the accessed Terminal or not, so I just hit "Restart". Then up popped a most welcome screen asking me if I wanted to save what I had entered. I did, and my computer started as hoped for and the unwanted icon was gone.

Again, thank you so very much for the solution. November 23, 2023.

Re. mtnengineer: My mistake.....good catch. I bought the 27" Mac 2 years ago, then finally updated to Sonoma this last September (this late because of very slow local downloading in remote north Idaho--had to drive to the Mac store in Spokane to update). Nevertheless, this has irritated me so much it feels like 2 years! Had previously tried numerous times to get rid of the pesky icon with no success. It was after updating to Sonoma that the irritating little guy set up its camp on my computer.

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