Accessibility shortcut not working.

When I try to trigger the accessibility shortcut (cmd+option+F5), nothing happens besides the sound for a mistaken key press sounding out. However, it does trigger when I press the Touch ID 3 times so it feels like the problem is with the F5 key combo.


Not sure about the relevance but when I pressed the key combo with a terminal window, the f keys would produce '~'. If I just pressed F5 then I would get '5~'. Any ideas?

MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.0

Posted on Oct 4, 2024 6:57 PM

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Oct 5, 2024 4:25 AM in response to kalobkalob

OK, then I suspect some corruption or 3rd party app or extension is interfering.


Are you running any VPN, Anti-Virus, or Cleaning apps?


We need to see what all is running, a report from this will not display any personal info...

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Oct 5, 2024 7:24 AM in response to kalobkalob

Boot into Restore mode,CMD+r keys...


Look at top of screen for Utilities menu...

In Disk Utility>View, select Show all Devices, highlight the top left entry.


Run Disk First Aid on all items in the left panel, from top down.


Delete this file & restart...

~/Library/LaunchAgents/com.BlueStacks.AppPlayer.Service.plist

~ tilde indicates your home folder

Apple hid the Users' Library folders...


Method 1:

1 From the Finder, select the Go menu at top of the screen, and choose Go to Folder.

2 In the window that opens, enter ~/Library/LaunchAgents, and click Go.


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If searching your Mac doesn’t return expected results, rebuilding the Spotlight index might help.


  1. Choose Apple menu () > System Preferences, then click Spotlight.
  2. Click the Privacy tab.
  3. Drag the folder or disk that you want to index again to the list of locations that Spotlight is prevented from searching. Or click the Add (+) button and select the folder or disk to add.
  4. To add an item to the Privacy tab, you must have ownership permissions for that item. To learn about permissions, choose Help from the Finder menu bar, then search for “permissions.”
  5. From the same list of locations, select the folder or disk that you just added. Then click the Remove (–) button to remove it from the list.
  6. Quit System Preferences. Spotlight will reindex the contents of the folder or disk.


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