What are the differences between clear and erase buttons in Calculator?

After reading through the posts, I have confirmed that holding down the erase/delete/backspace button for about half a second ends up working the same way as the old AC button, thank goodness! I confirmed after entering in 20 random digits and then holding the button for the half second, and it cleared.

While this isn’t what I’ve been used to, it’s good to know that there’s a way to make the clear happen 👍

I accidentally found a solution today when I was frustrated with the lack of C button. I pressed and held the AC button and it cleared all.

Hey I came here bc of my frustration on my desktop and just tried holding down the back arrow button and it cleared it! It worked!

Oudtimer wrote:

What a regression! I am missing the C / AC button entirely. Now I have to press "backspace" a bunch of times to clear out a number, one digit at a time.

Press and hold the "backspace" and it will delete everything.

By the way I’m guessing everyone figured it out by now but in case you didn’t, the C key now deletes the screen like the delete key used to.

It will just take some getting used to, but the function is there.

If you open the calculator and go to the Help Menu you can choose Keyboard shortcuts. There you will find that "Clear" can be accomplished using the C key, as already noted, or the Escape key

Hello, everyone.

James Merolla wrote:

…Please fix this apple.

If you want Apple to revert this or possibly give an option for both, you can’t tell them here. This is a user-to-user forum; Apple does not read these comments. You can submit feedback directly to Apple on Apple’s feedback page.

I hope this helps!

you can let them know using their feedback channels

Product Feedback - Apple

To Saburi:

Thanks! You're post really helped me!

I also am very mad about this change.

If you’re a fast typer, then having to hold the clear button down is definitely super annoying…. Please fix this apple.

I also hate the change!