Mac skipping key presses?

[blufrog]

Hi,

I finally received my Mac Mini!! It is absolutely fantastic!!

...there is a minor fly in the ointment though. It seems to like to skip key presses, and not every key, either.

Its favorites are one letter key and the caps lock key. Caps lock - most times I must press it twice to get caps lock.

The letter key is intermittent, but so far I have narrowed it down to one specific instance when entering my password to log in, and it is the first time I enter that key. Nothing pops-up on the screen, and so I don't think it is some weird hidden auto-correct bug.

As I type this message, it appears to be working as expected. Caps lock seems to work as expected, too (using Safari on Sequoia 15.2).

Is this a known issue, and does anyone know what is causing it? Seems this has been an issue going back to the M1 Macs, but in my specific case, it doesn't appear when I'm using something like Safari or a word processor or text editor.

The keyboard in question is a hardwired Kinesis TKO. It works great on Windows and never skipped a beat, and didn't skip a beat typing this, either.

 

[MacCheetah3]

I’ve had it happen at times during login, extremely frustrating. I haven’t noticed it anywhere else, and only in recent macOS versions.

The problem — at least in my experience — doesn’t appear to be keyboard lag, connection or otherwise. The issue isn’t even typically the first key press. When I notice an issue, I’ve tried chicken pecking my password while carefully watching the input field. Sure enough, there’s a seemingly random lack of a key press not being input. The problem is also not consistent.

Basically, I haven’t been able to narrow down an answer and it’s not quite frequent enough to make any drastic changes.

I use an Apple Magic Keyboard.

 

[Fishrrman]

Try a different keyboard.

I like wired keyboards, myself.
NON-Apple...

 

[blufrog]

Try a different keyboard.

I like wired keyboards, myself.
NON-Apple...

It is wired.

* Sigh * Guess I'm going to get an Apple keyboard. I miss the Fn/Globe key, too.

 

[mikeboss]

at first I thought I'm imagining things... then I found this blog post:

macOS Sequoia: a Scary Nasty Login Password Bug — Total Reinstall?

I'm using an old Apple aluminum (USB) keyboard.

 

[splifingate]

Try a different keyboard.

I like wired keyboards, myself.
NON-Apple...

I had the same happen last week with my Matias TP4 (until I re-booted) 🤷‍♂️

Only occurred that one time (I was in a lot of ssh term and remote.ip:xxxx sessions over one day, so attributed the weirdness to over-consumption (er, of the digital kind)).

 

[blufrog]

at first I thought I'm imagining things... then I found this blog post:

macOS Sequoia: a Scary Nasty Login Password Bug — Total Reinstall?

I'm using an old Apple aluminum (USB) keyboard.

Interesting! Thanks for the link/info!

I shall try and report this to Apple...if enough of us make a noise maybe they'll do something.