After updating to macOS Catalina – when I type, macOS will randomly repeat keypresses and sequences of keypresses.
Below are some examples of some mistypes just while writing this article:
macOS => macOSmacOS
Below => Below elow
Below => BelBelow
Some => SomeSome
Some => Someome
macOS also duplicates Enter and control-sequences like Ctrl-C and CMD+V.
After updating to macOS Catalina, I also updated brew with brew upgrade
, so maybe I have some odd update in there that might be causing this issue?
~ $ brew list
allure
ansible
apr
apr-util
argon2
aspell
autoconf
bash-completion
bdw-gc
brotli
c-ares
caddy
cmake
composer
ctags
curl-openssl
dnsmasq
doctl
fdupes
freetds
freetype
fzf
gdbm
gettext
git
glib
gmp
gnu-sed
go
graphicsmagick
htop
httpie
icu4c
jansson
jasper
jemalloc
jpeg
jq
jsoncpp
libev
libevent
libffi
libidn
libmetalink
libpng
libpq
libsodium
libssh2
libtermkey
libtiff
libtool
libuv
libvterm
libyaml
libzip
little-cms2
luajit
mariadb
mongodb
msgpack
ncdu
ncurses
neovim
nghttp2
nnn
oniguruma
openldap
openssl
[email protected]
pcre
pcre2
php
pkg-config
python
python3
python@2
rbenv
readline
rtmpdump
ruby
ruby-build
sdl2
sdl2_image
shellcheck
sphinx-doc
sqlite
the_silver_searcher
tidy-html5
tig
tmux
unibilium
unixodbc
webp
xz
I have tried multiple different keyboards. It feels like restarting the computer will make the issue go away for maybe 3 minutes and then the random key repeats start happening again.
What could be causing this and where should I be looking? I can't work like this and it's also dangerous because sometimes macOS repeats e.g. the enter-key which has already caused some confirmation-dialogs to be silently confirmed. :|
Thanks for your help!