The Command Tilde won't work on my MacBook Pro

If it was fixed then it's been un-fixed again. I'm on MacBook Pro M1 and Sonoma 14.3.1 and it absolutely is still broken.

It seems to be intermittent but in various apps, not just in browsers as mentioned above. I've seen it in Outlook, Chrome, Safari, etc.

I tried @mogem's keyboard shortcut toggle off and on idea (on Sanoma 14.5 (23F79)) and unfortunately the issue still persists.

It started being a problem around two weeks ago.

CMD + ~ doesn't work on my Macbook Pro's built in keyboard (or on my wireless magic keyboard).

Finder and Safari (and all other multi window apps) are all affected.

Nothing else but upgrading to the next versions of the OS. Even if I installed any new Apps , I am wondering how would that impact Cmd+~!. This issue is occuring in my Work MAC too. For the last a decade+ of using MAC and upgrading to new OS version, I have never encountered this issue (only in the last 6 months or so, with the most latest OS upgrades).

vedavard wrote:

Nothing else but upgrading to the next versions of the OS. Even if I installed any new Apps , I am wondering how would that impact Cmd+~!. This issue is occuring in my Work MAC too. For the last a decade+ of using MAC and upgrading to new OS version, I have never encountered this issue (only in the last 6 months or so, with the most latest OS upgrades).

An app would not likely cause a problem, but a system modification that worked with the previous os version may not work with the new one.

All I did was upgrade to Sonoma and window switching still works on my Mac.

Another person mentioned Stage Manage, and if it doesn’t work the same under that I wouldn’t know. I turned that off within 10 seconds of using it. Just another useless feature.

For me, ⌘-` works on external screens, but not on the primary screen.

For example, I have three VS Code windows open, one on my laptop screen, and two on screen 2 (or 3, or one each).

If I am on screen 2, it happily switches between the two windows on screen 2, or between the windows on screen 2 and 3, but it won't go back to the window on the laptop screen.

If I am on the laptop screen, it won't switch at all, even if all the windows are on the laptop screen.

It usually starts working again when I restart my computer, and sometimes it doesn't fail for days; but otherwise I have never managed to get it working again. Stage Manager settings seem to make no difference, I have it off anyway.

Apple M2, 8GB, Sonoma 14.5

This is happening to me in Sequoia 15.3.1. Cmd+grave does not work (rare times, it works once). The Cmd+Shift+grave was working and looping through windows.

I'm Brazilian and I use BR (portuguese) layout, in which the grave and tilde are dead keys. I thought that could be the problem. If I change to US keyboard, Cmd+grave works fine; back to BR layout and it stops working again. I also had changed the "next window" shortcut to something else and then back to cmd+grave. Without success.

(at first, I thought I had solved this, but it's still not working)

gabrielschulhof wrote:

I now have Sonoma 14.1.2. The bug is still present.

Keep your Mac up to date The current stable release of Sonoma is macOS 14.2

Keep your Mac up to date - Apple Support

Definitely not working in Stage Manager in Sonoma 14.2.1

It worked for me. I think the problem is with enabling "Stage Manager"

I have this issue after doing a complete re-install of macOS.

Chip: Apple M1 Pro

RAM: 32 GB

OS: 14.3（23D56）

I've relied on this for years (decade+). You used to be able to set this in keystrokes, but I cannot find anyway to set anymore.

Very frustrating. Very hopeful this is transitory.

Same problem here.

Sonoma 14.3 (23D56)

I found a intermittent workaround: Sometimes using Command + Shift + Tilde instead of Command + Tilde isn't works... Not a definitive solution btw, still broken.

Very sorry to say.. This is really annoying when one fine day in a new OS release, Apple changes these behaviors which have been in place & commonly used by lots of users for years. Whoever decided to change, not sure what their thought process is. It's like changing Cmd-C or Cmd-V. If ain't broke, why even fix?

The instructions are also not straight forward. Why do we have to go through hoops to just simply switch between Windows, which users are always used to. It was working a few months ago after I fixed and now it is not working again, even after resetting the keybaord settings.. These minor things cause big inconvenience/ annoying, amidst the actual work we all need to get done.

Very sorry to say.. This is really annoying when one fine day in a new OS release, Apple changes these behaviors which have been in place & commonly used by lots of users for years.

But, they have not changed. Why yours doesn't work we can't tell you because we don't know anything about what you have installed.