CAPS LOCK FREEZES MAC IN MACOS SIERRA

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CAPS LOCK FREEZES MAC IN MACOS SIERRA

I HAVE TO WRITE IN ALL CAPS DUE TO AN ISSUE IN MAC OS SIERRA.

SINCE INSTALLING MACOS SIERRA YESTERDAY, I'VE BEEN HAVING STRANGE ISSUES REGARDING THE CAPS LOCK KEY OF MY BLUETOOTH KEYBOARD.

WHEN USING MY MAC YESTERDAY I WAS HAVING A SYSTEM-WIDE FREEZE WHEN TURNING ON CAPS LOCK. THIS INCLUDES VIDEO PLAYBACK, KEYBOARD AND MOUSE INPUT (IT WOULD CATCH UP AFTER A FEW SECONDS BUT THE LETTERS YOU TYPED MAY NOT COME OUT IN THE CORRECT ORDER, SUGGESTING IT'S NOT JUST A DISPLAY ISSUE BUT AN ACTUAL FREEZE) AND THEN THERE WOULD BE SMALLER FREEZES AND BLIPS AS LONG AS CAPS LOCK WAS ON.

TODAY, HOWEVER, I'M HAVING THE OPPOSITE OCCUR. THE FREEZES ARE OCCURRING WHILE CAPS LOCK IS OFF, WHICH IS SIGNIFICANTLY MORE INCONVENIENT AS EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE I'M YELLING!

THERE DON'T SEEM TO BE ANY CPU SPIKES IN ACTIVITY MONITOR AND I'VE TRIED REPLACING THIS BATTERIES.

Mac mini, macOS Sierra (10.12)

Posted on Sep 22, 2016 3:53 AM

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Answer 1

Jan 19, 2017 7:58 AM in response to JHEATH7

I have a caseflex bluetooth keyboard that was working just fine until I installed macOS Sierra on my macbook pro 15 inch mid 2012. Everything works perfectly fine until I press the caps lock key. Once I do that my computer will freeze entirely for a few seconds, then work normally for a few seconds and then repeat that cycle of freeze and unfreeze. When it is frozen none of the inputs work (including bluetooth keyboard, bluetooth mouse, macbook keyboard and trackpad) and the cursor occasionally shows as spinning. In between freezes everything works like normal. I haven't noticed any spikes of RAM, hard drive usage or anything out of the ordinary in the Activity Monitor. The strangest thing is that pressing the caps lock key on the bluetooth keyboard again makes everything go back to normal. Just to note, the capslock key on the macbook pro itself works fine and does not create the same freezing problem.

Relevant info:

macOS Sierra 10.12

MacBook Pro 15-inch, mid 2012

Caseflex wireless bluetooth keyboard

Bluetooth keyboard and mouse are running on a Kiniv bluetooth usb adaptor (due to lack of range in macbook's native bluetooth adaptor)

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JHEATH7 Author

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Jan 19, 2017 8:05 AM in response to ryanlintott

Hi just thought I'd let you know that I managed to fix after seeing a couple of the above comments. I changed my keyboard language (system settings -> keyboard -> input sources) from British to British PC and I no longer have the freezing issue (I also have a caseflex keyboard). I hope this helps for you 🙂

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Answer 3

JHEATH7 Author

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Sep 22, 2016 12:46 PM in response to JHEATH7

BUMP

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Answer 4

Sep 27, 2016 10:00 AM in response to JHEATH7

Hello,
i've got the same issue on my MacBook Pro. but i ended up on a result which is. the caps lock works just fine when i write in English language but it doesn't work when i switch to another language. I'm using Arabic as 2nd input for instance. I hope that i was useful :-)

cheers ,

iT@rek

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Answer 5

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 27, 2016 10:18 AM in response to TarekHamadi0593

HHave you turned off the item at very bottom of arabic keyboard prefs that makes caps lock a shortcut?

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Answer 6

Sep 28, 2016 3:21 AM in response to JHEATH7

Hello, here is the pref:

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Answer 7

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 28, 2016 6:03 AM in response to TarekHamadi0593

So your problem is that you cannot type the Arabic numbers 1234567890 ?

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Answer 8

Sep 28, 2016 8:55 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

Exactly, whenever I click on caps lock in Eng language it works normally, but when I activate it in Arabic language it doesn't work mostly, rarely when it works. I think it is not an issue but it made by purpose.

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Answer 9

Tom Gewecke

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Sep 28, 2016 10:18 AM in response to TarekHamadi0593

Looks like a bug Apple has to fix. Let them know at

http://www.apple.com/feedback

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Answer 10

Sep 28, 2016 11:06 AM in response to Tom Gewecke

I tried to reset NVRAM but nothing changed so i just sent em my feedback on their macOSX feedback section. Hope that they will fix this issue in the upcoming version.

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LoFiSh72

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Oct 12, 2016 9:48 AM in response to ryanlintott

Same thing started happening to me this week. I also use a bluetooth keyboard (Sparin). It's really frustrating.

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