Forward delete on a 2024 Magic Keyboard and MacBook Pro

I think Control D or Fn-Delete should work.

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Same here. It’s Control D where I have forward delete with Control = Control, and i think you said you do not?

Thanks, interesting! On my iMac with a standard Magic Keyboard, Globe delete and Control D both do forward delete as expected, with modifiers all set to defaults (i.e. Control = Control, Globe = Globe).

Very annoying indeed, but probably due to (my/your) inadvertent change of factory settings.

This did it for me (internal US international keyboard of MacBook Air 13”, macOS 15.1).

Click Apple Logo and System Settings and select Keyboard in the drop-down menu of the window that opens. Then follow the 4 steps highlighted in red on the following 3 screenshots:

You can also click on “Restore Defaults” if you agree with the factory settings of all the modifier keys. That will reassign the “Globe” function to the “Globe/fn” modifier key.

Good luck!

Interesting and puzzling at the same time, I’d say, Tom, because I can confirm that on the US International keyboard of my MacBook Air (macOS 15.1), Control Delete performs a backward delete when the Control modifier key is set to “Control”, i.e. default.

Confirm: I do not. Control D with Control = Control performs a backward delete on my keyboard.

Short of a video of my fingers striking the key combination, I attach this screenshot:

Hello Tom,

On some Macs, I’m afraid you need to make sure that the correct action is assigned to the Globe or Control key in order for those keys to perform a forward-delete in combination with the backward delete key. Otherwise, the combination either achieves nothing or performs a backward-delete, at least on my MacBook Air.

On my internal keyboard (US International, MacBook Air 13”, macOS 15.1) …

• whenever I do “Fn-Delete” = strike the top right (Delete) key and the bottom left (Globe/fn) key simultaneously …

1. 1. the cursor remains in place and apparently nothing happens to the text once the action assigned to the latter modifier key (Globe/fn) key has been set to “Command”;
   2. the cursor deletes backwards irrespective of whether the action assigned to the Globe/fn modifier key is Caps Lock, Control, Option, Escape, or No Action;
   3. the cursor deletes forwards only once the action assigned to the Globe/fn modifier key is “Globe"

• whenever I do “Control-D” = strike the strike the top right (Delete) key and the “control” key simultaneously ("Control D"), the cursor deletes forwards only once the action assigned to the “control” modifier key is “Globe”.

I haven’t got a Magic Keyboard.

I’ve tried with two types of external Microsoft keyboards connected to my MacBook Air via USB: in order to make the MS “Control” key delete forwards whenever I strike it simultaneously with the Delete key, the action assigned to that MS “Control” key needs to be “function” (there’s no Globe pic on the MS keyboards I’ve tried).

Hope that helps someone.