Keyboard getting stuck.

By Khomus, 4 August, 2025

Forum
macOS and Mac Apps

Hi all.

So I run into this problem occasionally, like right now, well just before I restarted anyway. Some key, possibly caps lock, gets stuck. I don't mean that it's literally physically stuck. I mean for instance that when I hit enter, Voiceover either says "selecting" or "stop selecting". cmd-f5 doesn't work to toggle VO on and off. Lots of things don't work.

On Windows when something like this happened you'd hold down ctrl-alt-shift left and right all at the same time for a while and if you were lucky, it would reset the keyboard. Is there a trick like that for Mac, or any other way to get out of this, other than shutting down/restarting? I just lost a post I was writing, thanks to this dumbness.

In case it matters, I'm using an iClever BK-10 Bluetooth keyboard. I keep meaning to try something else, maybe this is a sign! I just haven't gotten out to a place where I can get my hands on some keyboards for typing feel and the like.

Options