Weird Behavior from my Apple “Magic” Keyboard (Dropped Input)

Hi:

Weird behavior from my Apple wireless (“Magic”) keyboard that I hope someone can explain.

About 10% of the time when I attempt to enter a password, whether it is to login to my Mac, or to enter a password for an encrypted disk image on an external drive after I have logged in, it drops 2 letters (that is, if my PW is “abcde”, it enters “abde” if “c” is the dropped character)(by 2 letters, I mean that I’ve only seen this happen with 2 specific characters on the keyboard, but only one at a time )(interestingly, on one of the passwords that has both problematic characters in it, it is kind of random which of the 2 characters is impacted, sometimes it has been one, and sometimes the other, but never both at once). So far, without evaluating it systematically, it is only 2 of the keyboard characters that exhibit this behavior.

To login when this happens, I use Touch ID.

I can we what character is behaving funky by opening a text file immediately and type “abcde” and only see “abde” so I know that “c” is the problematic character. But then, I place the insertion cursor at the end of the text string and type the missing character and it appears normally; it seems that typing the problematic character the second time resets the software bug. At this point, when I type “abcde” one sees “abcde”.

Any ideas would be greatly appreciated!!!

PS I haven’t tried substituting a wired keyboard when I am logging in; figured I’d wait to see what input folks had first.

PPS MacBook Pro 14-Inch 2021 (M1 Max), macOS 15.3.2, Magic Keyboard Firmware Version: 2.0.6

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Haven't seen this issue in a while (good news!), and I'm now up to Mac OS 15.5.

But I'm very curious about it.

I found a bunch of posts from people describing a similar issue.

My post and all the similar posts were "closed" with this message:

But I can't find an answer to the issue, and am also curious why Apple/System Moderator closed all these posts???

Thank you!