Try to hit your CAPS Lock button as if it’s a mistake and see what happens. Mine is reading my mind.
The difference between unintentional hit and an intentional one is very slight, but it knows :)
That’s crazy… Do they have like a simple mechanism to detect this like if < .001ms?
I use caps lock to switch my keyboard between Arabic and English, this little delay helps me differentiate between switching languages and actually turning on caps lock
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.
I thought it was a hardware thing. Interesting
Fun fact, caps lock lights on every keyboards is an OS thing, even off-brand plug in USB keyboards on Windows computers. The OS (or rather the keyboard driver somewhere) tells the keyboard to turn on the light.
I just remapped my caps to escape
mines been on forward delete for years and years
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.
I don’t think I’ve ever had that experience with Face ID haha, but I get the sentiment. Never seems to work reliably for me.
Touch ID, other the other hand, is just chefs kiss.
Face ID fails in bed…
Wish I have Touch ID for those moments… or any moments of me not looking at the phone directly
2 factors at play:
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How much of your face is being obscured by your pillow (if you’re lying on your side)
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Angle of phone-to-face. If the angle is too steep, Face ID will fail to detect.
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Take it a step further. Remap your capslock button to another key and never have this problem again.
I remap mine to Command. Caps Lock is one of the least useful keys on a keyboard to be honest.
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.
Apple fanbois… Apple is using AI magic to know when I want to press it.
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.
I have multiple languages and that’s definitely not how it works. Perhaps you have a different keyboard layout. The fn key is how you switch languages. It even has the symbol for it.
Though the guy is talking about something else; it was the best screenshot that showed where the setting is.
For me, pressing just the fn key does nothing and even mine has the symbol. “fn+space” just puts a space. I can easily switch languages using the capslock. If I do a slightly longer press; the capslock turns on.
Under Keyboard --> Keyboard there’s an on-by-default option that says "Press to " where is the globe symbol. The default entry on the drop down menu is “Change Input Source”.