Password prompt misses to register some characters in MacOS Sequoia 15.2

markuss-work wrote:

I can say the character I am still having problems with is lower case "q"

Do you know if your colleague also has a problem with q, or whether you have a problem with his problem characters?

I'm experiencing the same issue on a 2021 MacBook Pro at least since I moved to 15.2. It seems to happen with the first or second password character. Subsequent occurrences of the same character seems not affected. I have to type the affected character twice in order to get it right. In my case the affected characters are 3 and b.

15.3 didn't solve it. In fact it may have even gotten worse given that now it might happen on both the first and second character during the same attempt.

This is really scary because it raises the suspicion that there is some kind of keylogger active.

I've been having this problem for a little while now. When logging in, the first character will not type. I use the built-in keyboard on my Macbook Air. Oddly, I just tried it again, then went to log into this site, which sent me a code to enter which happened to have the same character in it as the first one of my password and IT did not type the first time I tried to enter it either. I had thought that the problem was just because it was the first character in my password, but that was not where it was in the code. (If that makes any sense) This is for sure annoying.

@ Tom G.- Interesting you should ask about those specific letters & numbers - "789uiojklm ". Can you explain briefly why you asked? I wonder because on my brand new Macbook Air 13" M3 those exact keys didn't type out at all and I had to return it. It came installed with Sonoma and I had only updated (not upgraded to Sequoia). This was using my 2021 Apple magic keyboard, which works fine. I then bought another (Macbook Air 13" M3) replacement and it came with Sequoia and I've had no keyboard/typing problem. Anyway, it was curious to me that the numbers & letters are all vertically in the same area on the keyboard.

I have exactly the same issue. I have to wait for each keypress to see if it registeres in the password.

The keyboard is working great for the rest. Only on password entry. It drove me crazy, but now I know, I just pay attention and it works.

There is definitely something weird about this - do any1 of you who has this problem, have by any chance changed the default wallpaper photo - the one on desktop that also appears on login screen? Somehow I noticed that once I changed from default live wallpaper to my usual still photo that I used for years now, the wakeup from display sleep and login prompt started being very very sluggish. I kind of began to correlate this to missing keystrokes. Now, this wouldn't be so suspicious if my wallpaper didn't somehow reset to default one (not really sure what caused it, could be update to 15.3.1 but it wouldn't actually make sense) and ever since, I did not have either missed keystrokes, or sluggish login window.

(confused).

I have this problem too! My password is simple, so I only noticed "a" won't register if follow "w" immediately. I tried different keyboards, so it's not that. Took me a few hours to found out since I just assembled a new custom keyboard, I thought there is soldering problem with the a key...

I have only been on 15.4 for 3-4 days. No issues in that time, but as others have said, I can sometimes go a week or more without the issue and sometimes it occurs every time until I reboot.

So, I hope they did something to address this old issue.

And, if they did fix it, THANKS!!!

Paul

I don't think this is particular to the Swedish layout. I'm with US International, using an ANSI keyboard, and still no luck with some keystrokes.

To me, this could be indicative of a possible hardware issue with the builtin keyboard

How I arrive at this is simple

Until the entire operating system is fully loaded

That would have only occur, after, you have successfully logged into the computer

So, conclusion would be, Not the Operating System in and of itself, but points elsewhere

Well, I'm afraid the problem is very peculiar. The fact that it happens with both the internal and an external keyboard, and is always the same key, and, is only in a password text field, defies logic. Is the key a normal alphabetic or numeric key?