MacBook keyboard registers key release too sensitively

Dario G wrote:

I took the laptop into my local Apple Store and received a replacement today, but I’m seeing the exact same behavior. No one there could confirm whether this is an intentional change, so at this point I’m assuming it may be by design.

The easiest way to reproduce it is to hold a key down and then slightly ease off pressure, even by a very small amount, and the release will register well before the key physically rises. It's also possible to trigger a sort of "rapid-fire" effect with very small pressure fluctuations, without actually lifting your finger off the key. This could become problematic for anyone who relies on holding keys down, such as for gaming or push to talk on Discord.

Since I’ve now observed this consistently across two brand new devices, I wanted to share an update in case others are noticing the same behavior or if this develops into a broader "Apple keygate" type issue.

Re:< MacBook Pro > - you posted in the MacBook community

Yours is the only report I have heard for your issue.

There was no re-design of the keyboard in the literature that I have seen.

Unlike the Butterfly keyboard debacle 2016-2018 through 3 different iterations, before they switched back to the scissor design they made a big deal of it calling in the "magic" keyboard.

Finally, in late 2019, Apple did an about-face and introduced the 16" MacBook Pro with a new "Magic Keyboard," reverting to an old-new scissor mechanism to this day.

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Dario G wrote:

I purchased the 2026 M5 MacBook with the M5 Max chip today and

set up Discord with push to talk. I have noticed that the actuation and release distance feels much more sensitive compared to my older M4 Pro.

When I press a key, even slightly reducing pressure (we're talking literal micrograms here), causes it to register as released well before the key physically rises. I understand that it's not supposed to fully raise before registering the release, but the way it's setup currently, feels very touchy. That said, this makes the key feel overly sensitive, and I have not found any software setting to adjust it.

I am not sure if this is a defect, but I have tested more than five keys across different areas of the keyboard and can reproduce the behavior on all of them. I did not experience this issue on my M4 Mac Pro.

Has anyone else with an M5 noticed something similar?

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