Hubby got me this nifty bluetooth keyboard to use with my ipad and my phone. For nearly a year, CMD was equal to CTRL and ALT OPT was equal to ALT. Yesterday, they switched. It’s freaking weird. Why?
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Why did my ALT and CMD keys suddenly switch?
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J842P
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I'm assuming you are on Mac OS X? Did you accidentally change your localization settings? See if any of these would explain it: https://keyshorts.com/blogs/blog/37615873-how-to-identify-macbook-keyboard-localization
. Thanks.
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Does this help?
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/225089/swap-cmd-and-alt-only-on-external-keyboard
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By the way, we have a computers & tech forum now.
https://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/225089/swap-cmd-and-alt-only-on-external-keyboard
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By the way, we have a computers & tech forum now.
Oh! I didn’t know, thanks. Mods - you can move this to there.
Thanks, but that wasn’t quite the thing. I should have said the _functions_ switched, so that what used to happen when I pressed CMD now happened when I pressed ALT.
But J842P got me straightened out, it was a soft-key thing that I must have accidentally hit telling my keyboard to be “PC” instead of “i”. Thanks for the info, though.
Underseer
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Ah, one of those deals.
I have a mobile keyboard that has a Mac, Windows, and Android mode. I've yet to accidentally switch that yet. I'm sure it'll happen eventually.