Take it a step further. Remap your capslock button to another key and never have this problem again.

I don’t like it, can I disable it? Much more often I mean to press it and it isn’t pressed than I didn’t mean to and this feature helped…

Yo what, I thought it mine was just slightly broken

This was always the case. Already on the wired Mac keyboard and the Magic Keyboard too. This is not Mac book specific. But a nice feature.

Yeah it’s a slight delay before it activates. Been on MacBooks since I got my first one in 2010.

It’s one of those things like faceid where it just works without you ever having to think about it.

Yes it is like that by default. I've found it annoying that sometimes I press Caps Lock and it doesnt turn on, so I've found an app called CapsLockNoDelay which prevents this from happening. So every time I press Caps Lock soft or hard, it works.

Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.

Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.

Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂

Is that why when I try to turn it off, it turns on 😂

Reality:

A long press engages the capslock function.

A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you've set your computer to just 1 language, it's not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.

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Apple fanbois.. Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.

Reality:

A long press engages the capslock function.

A quick press is used to switch languages. So if you've set your computer to just 1 language, it's not going to do anything. If you have more than 1 language, it switches between them immediately. There is no delay.

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Apple fanbois.. Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.

Looks like a MacBook keyboard driver exclusive feature though. I’m often using a Keychron K3 and get so mad when accidentally fat fingering caps lock instead of tab.

I disabled Caps Lock on my keyboard :)

My MacBook Pro from 2007 had this - when they were on the second generation of Intel devices. A lot of people thought it was a keyboard defect back then. And reading this thread, they still do :)

I’ve never accidentally hit CAPS lock button on any computer ever.

It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership

Well, it's not reading my mind properly unfortunately... Any way to turn this off and make it behave just like a normal button?

I remapped my caps lock key to be CTRL instead. It’s much more useful that way.

Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn't?

My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I'm used to it I love it.

Same with the power button.

in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day

Yep, the key has a delay (and AFAIK it’s software delay, i.e. there’s a script that lets you turn off the delay).

Eh, I end up going to caps for short stints when programming and sometimes it misses if I’m going too fast so I’m not the biggest fan.

I install karabiner just to get rid of this delay. The delay just misses the caps lock press for me.

This thread has made me realize I never use caps lock. Ive been using macOS for 14 years and didn’t know about this delay 😂

I think the 2009 era Mac usb keyboard also does this