Key Repeat No Longer Functioning

hinder90 wrote: When I hold down any key, instead of the key repeating, a bubble appears over the cursor which appears to contain the unicode character options for that letter, if any are available.

That is how every Mac made in the last 10 years or so is normally supposed to work. Apple's info is at

Enter characters with accent marks on Mac - Apple Support

You can remove this feature by following the Terminal app instructions in this note, but change the true to false

MacOS Accent Menu Has Disappeared - Apple Community

Tom Gewecke wrote:

hinder90 wrote:

the behavio of holding down a key varies between the option bubble and repeating the character

Just to clarify further, key repeat has long been disabled by default for letters and numbers. But there have always been other, symbol keys where key repeat should normally work: !@#$%^&*()_+<>? etc. Do let us know if they are not working for you.

As you have very correctly mentioned regarding other Non Number and Letters

///////////////// @@@@@@@@@@@@@ and others do work with a continuous holding of said key

Great work there once again

hinder90 wrote:

the behavio of holding down a key varies between the option bubble and repeating the character according to no discernible pattern that I can identify.

That's definitely not normal. Perhaps you have a 3rd party utility installed (antivirus stuff?) which is interfering?

But, as posted earlier, key repeat has been disabled by default in favor of the accent menu in Mac OS for many years now, and users who want it need to execute a terminal command.

The latest version of Sonoma as of today is 14.4.1. Try updating to that as a first step.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

PRP_53 wrote: To get rid of the pop up for me, I tap the letter o a second time and presto the Pop disappears

Do you then get the key repeat on press and hold that hinder90 wants?

Let me try what I am understanding from your have, right here

o Single Click and continue to hold o - Unicode Pop up remains statically appearing

o single click and hold >> Unicode appears >> Single Click o again and yes do get double o o

Do I have this right ? 😎

As has been already been suggested

MacOS 14.3.1 was released Feb 8, 2024

macOS 14.4 released Mar 7, 2024

macOS 14.4.1 released Mar 25, 2024

As for keyboard and unicode Pop Ups

Holding the letter o key will present the Unicode Pop up

To get rid of the pop up for me, I tap the letter o a second time and presto the Pop disappears

PRP_53 wrote:

Do I have this right ? 😎

I don't think so. What hinder90 wants is to press and hold o and get a string of them that keeps going until he releases the key. Like you get when you do press and hold on @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

hinder90 wrote:

the behavio of holding down a key varies between the option bubble and repeating the character

Just to clarify further, key repeat has long been disabled by default for letters and numbers. But there have always been other, symbol keys where key repeat should normally work: !@#$%^&*()_+<>? etc. Do let us know if they are not working for you.

Tom Gewecke wrote:

PRP_53 wrote:

Do I have this right ? 😎

I don't think so. What hinder90 wants is to press and hold o and get a string of them that keeps going until he releases the key. Like you get when you do press and hold on @@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@@

Ah, the lights are going on here

Just tried before replying

Nope do not get the repeated o by continuously holding o

PRP_53 wrote: To get rid of the pop up for me, I tap the letter o a second time and presto the Pop disappears

Do you then get the key repeat on press and hold that hinder90 wants?