Language input switching shortcut doesn't work

hello everyone.

I've had your problems for ages and didn't know what to do. but I did something strange and had my problem solved. hope it will help you.

1. open System Preferences and select the “keyboard” option:

2. Select the “ Shortcuts…” button on the top.

3. click on "the input sources" on the left.

4. You can see that by default the options “Select the previous input source” and “Select next source in input menu” are not enabled. we usually have the first option off and second option on.

so click on the check box to enable first one too.

set a different shortcut for these options. restart your computer. hope your problem disappears.

***** if the problem exists so set the "cmd+space" shortcut for both of them! you will see a yellow mark that indicates "conflict". but don't pay attention. this conflict will solve your problem.....!!!!!

I removed the chinese and re-enabled it, it fixed it. Hope it helps after 6 yrs

Thanks Tom.

I had the same problem here after upgrading to Sierra, that sometimes I had to press cmd+space many times to switch imput methods.

Just like Tom mentioned, this happened because cmd+space is also used by Siri, which brought the conflict.

For those who got here by searching Google like me, if you were in 10.12 Sierra, please try changing Siri's keyboard short to 'off'.

Hi,

Though I do not know exactly what the problem is, I've figured out a way to switch from one input source to another.

Seems like my MacBook switches input after pressing SHIFT key. So after command+space (the default shortcut), I made a habit of pressing shift once, and it's all good.

It's frustrating how Apple has not been addressing this problem. But hope this helps.

hymnkim wrote:

It's frustrating how Apple has not been addressing this problem. But hope this helps.

I don't know of anything for Apple to fix here. What OS X version are you actually running? This forum is for something from many years ago.

that was useful...thanks

5 years later, same problem still goes unaddressed. Thanks Apple! Good job! </sarcasm>

lethe6 wrote:

5 years later, same problem still goes unaddressed.

What exactly is your problem? Be aware that starting with El Capitan, the shortcut has changed to Control plus Space.

Hey,

i have the same problem. at some point of time the secondary language becomes grayed out and switching the language does not work anymore. restart helps, but then the issue comes back.

Apple support recommends to try another user account, but thats a work laptop with tons of certificates / software installed.

Any idea on how to troubleshoot?

WWhat version of OS X are you running? This forum is for the old 10.6. Are you on the current 10.12 Sierra?

Oh, sorry, got here from search.

My MacOS version is 10.12.1 - Sierra

for Sierra, try going to system preferences/siri and turn Siri off and also make sure the keyboard shortcut for it is set to "none", and restart.