17.1 Safari Arrow keys Smooth Scrolling Not Working

I found the answer and not on my own. It mis from Tom at the bottom of 1st page: Scrolling with Arrow keys are not working… - Apple Community

Settings>Accessibility>Full Keyboard Access>Keyboard Access, slide to Off. Works for me

BDQ, thanks for all your help, and check out my points, I've almost caught up to you 🤣

Grant, best I can guide is to open Apple Settings, Accessibility, Keyboard, Keyboard Shortcuts, slide Keyboard navigation to Off. Let us know if this works for your Mac too

I spoke with Apple and they now believe the keyboard itself is malfunctioning and will send me a new one. I hope this is it. I will update if it is not and thanks you BDAqua for your generous help 😊

BDAqua,

Have you tried resore a certin dte using TM???: Yes see below

I will read your tote but wanted to say that I discovered how to roll back to my last TM backup on Oct 6 and my arrows are working again, at least for the time being.

Gotta run its Halloween and we're meeting with friends

Oh okay, so holding the fn and F11 then the function keys does work on volume up/down. It also is working on arrow scrolling. as well as the (MC) Mission Control key. My suspicion is that you have solved my problem, and now I wish I'd have known this prior to returning the keyboard. But if the support team wasn't aware of this, you, BDAqua are a star. Thanks very much.

And yes I restored back to Oct 6th I believe it was, but I think I'll do a backup to restore to the latest state.

BTW do you know if when backing up I am only backing up incidental data? Or am I using a ton of space each time? Perhaps there's a setting for that too. Nope I don't see one.

Hope your Halloween went well, we sat out in the garage opened for kids, and handed out far too much candy, but we fooled them again, by adding mostly sugar-free candy. A wicked trick 👻 heheh

So it appears that the scroll lock key, which some say is the Home, the F14 to the Command F14 key, does not work after the latest Sonoma 14.1 update. Neither does the Mission Control button.

BDAqua,

Wholeheartedly appreciate your help here, but that's too complicated for this old brain. And I think we may be speaking to two different issues

I want slow smooth scrolling until I stop holding the arrow up or down. You are speaking to that bizarre arrow scroll locked on. I have had experience with that and it is not fun nor funny.

Oddly enough, yesterday after having changed a keyboard setting, once I restarted it worked.

However now the F3 key which used to display all of the open apps does not work and I don;t recall where to find that or what its called.

I am not usually messing with much of anything. I use it as it comes, but now I'm forced to minimize all open apps to find the desktop view of all open apps. Any ideas?

Many Thanks

BDAqua,

Well I would have to say like my Father used to say, "Almost nearly, but not quite hardly" 😂

Somehow I have changed a setting which does what Mission Control is now doing, by placing all of the open apps to the left side of my desktop window. But I used to have it show all of the open apps behind the app that I am working with presently. Trouble is I can't see them as well now, as when it showed all apps spread across my desktop. And the only way I knew how to do that was (thank you for informing me of the name of the key) tapping on the (MC key) Mission Control key, showing 3 rectangles above the F3 on that key. Now when I click on that MC key nothing happens. And I'd like for that to happen again.

Again I say that I was cleaning the keyboard when this happened, so its all my responsibility, but I can't duplicate that cleaning series of strokes again, as you may well imagine.

Still seeking instruction if possible and many thanks thus far

I guess I can't leave this page without all of my draft being erased?

So it appears with the new keyboard literally nothing has improved. The arrows don't work (except for very sketchy jumping erratically), the volume buttons are completely ineffective, F12 up volume does nothing, F11 decrease causes the browser window to jump up to the top of desktop and literally disappear while the view of desktop takes its place, the F10 off volume does nothing, the F14 and the Command F14 is not the scroll key lock/unlock button, the Mission Control (F4) button does not show the apps neatly laid out across the desktop while in place of the open app one is working in.

A brand new keyboard with no changes at all. I'm grateful but if Apple Support has no knowledge of these default failures. I am believing for the time being that it is the Sonoma 14.1 update.

If only I knew how to roll back from my last TM backup. And if only the updates were dated so knew when to roll back to. I updated from Sonoma 14.0

What a mess until this is figured out. Sorry I couldn't report a fix

Oh okay, so holding the fn and F11 then the function keys does work on volume up/down. It also is working on arrow scrolling. as well as the (MC) Mission Control key. My suspicion is that you have solved my problem, and now I wish I'd have known this prior to returning the keyboard. But if the support team member wasn't aware of this, you, BDAqua are a star. Thanks very much.

And yes I restored back to Oct 6th I believe it was, but I think I'll do a backup to restore to the latest state. In fact I have just reset to daily backups, which are incremental as I see it only backing up changed data.