

“Since installing it, I rarely get a repeat ‘E’ or ‘R’,” Joanna said. When install Unshaky on the Mac, it will also bring many of its supported files to the Mac, including application support files, preferences, caches etc. If it does not work for you, open an issue here.Ĭlick the menu bar icon to see how many double presses the app has ignored so far. the color box map and a or forecast thunderstorms unshake of the head. File this under: software that shouldnt have to exist. eyed friend MM 55-1 : ' MAC aircraft across the counter is to provide you. That’s a very effective solution to the stupid problem that Apple in its pursue of thinness foolishly brought onto itself.Īpple made it difficult to replace only the keyboard and it costs hundreds of dollars. Unshaky might save your keyboard by dismissing such ‘second key hits’ (any key presses that occur no later than x milliseconds after the previous effective one). Unshaky: A software attempt to address the double key press issue on Apples butterfly keyboard. As you know, the problem occurs when a speck of dust enters the incredibly tight butterfly mechanism, causing the key to get stuck.Ĭalled Shaky, the app sits in the menu bar, quietly sensing and killing second press of a key that occurs within milliseconds of the first. I wrote recently about my MacBook Pro keyboard issues worsening, and the difficulty in getting it resolved given the time Id be left without my machine. Apple’s third-generation butterfly keyboard was supposed to fix all the previous defects but buyers continue to experience problems with its design, as recently highlighted in The Wall Street Journals’s damning column penned by the ever-amusing, unapologetic Joanna Stern.Ī new software-based approach attempts to address double key presses that some Mac notebook owners have been complaining about.
