When I use shortcut for spotlight "cmd+space" and use emoji keyboard "cmd+ctrl+space" and press some random smile spotlight and emoji selection dissapears and after that keyboard is not responding. Only "touch ID/power button" helps in this case.
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MacBook Pro 14″, macOS 15.1
Forget about Chrome, as I said it happens in any app.
BUT you have to close all Apps, even Finder, in my case, if Finder is open it wont happen
Steps to reproduce(after all Apps are closed):
1) Open Safari, for example
2) Press cmd+space, Spotlight welcoming window appears
3) Press cmd+ctrl+space, Emoji Viewer appears
4) Click on a random emoji, both Spotlight and Emoji Viewer dissappear
5) Only window left is the Safari window. Now if you try to enter any text in searching field in Safari nothing will happen. Only clicking sounds.
6) If you want to fix this you can now open Finder or lock the laptop using TouchID button, after that everything starts working again
Forget about Chrome, as I said it happens in any app.
BUT you have to close all Apps, even Finder, in my case, if Finder is open it wont happen
Steps to reproduce(after all Apps are closed):
1) Open Safari, for example
2) Press cmd+space, Spotlight welcoming window appears
3) Press cmd+ctrl+space, Emoji Viewer appears
4) Click on a random emoji, both Spotlight and Emoji Viewer dissappear
5) Only window left is the Safari window. Now if you try to enter any text in searching field in Safari nothing will happen. Only clicking sounds.
6) If you want to fix this you can now open Finder or lock the laptop using TouchID button, after that everything starts working again
Not sure what you are trying to do. Are you trying to enter an emoji into Spotlight? FWIW, if I open Spotlight, then the Emoji viewer, as soon as I click an emoji, Spotlight disappears. That would seem to be normal.
Now try to enter any letter in chrome for example. In my case it won’t respond. Just clicking sound.
PS I didn’t try to enter emoji in spotlight. It’s just sequence of event which lead to complete shutdown of the keyboard. And I tried to investigate how did it happen in my case when I tried to open emoji keyboard and I guess it happens implicitly and accidently.
Yes, as you said, after you click random emoji and everything disappears except Chrome, try to enter any letter in any field in Chrome and nothing happens. And it’s not only in this app. Same happens with Safari.
FWIW, I cannot recreate the issue you are having. First of all, after opening Spotlight, then the Emoji Viewer, as soon as I click or double click on an Emoji, Spotlight disappears. The Emoji viewer does not. I would never recommend anyone use Google Chrome, but since you are, make sure it's current. Version 131.0.6778.205.
Just to it's clear, you open Spotlight, then the Emoji viewer, then you try to enter a letter in a Google Chrome text field???
CheeseCoffee wrote:
4) Click on a random emoji, both Spotlight and Emoji Viewer dissappear
As I said, that doesn't happen on my Macs.
Spotlight and emoji keyboard issue on Mac
