Press + Hold Accents

DVBURNSII · April 9

Whenever I play ESO the press and hold for character accents overlay is activated. For example, if I move by holding W then the accent window will appear at the bottom left of my screen. The only way I have been able to prevent this is every single time I play the game I must open system settings and slide both Key Repeat Rate and Delay Until Repeat all the way off. These settings do not save. If I shut down my Mac or turn my Magic iTouch Keyboard off then I must slide them back off again.

Does anyone know of any permanent solutions for this?

SilverBride · April 9

Check Accessibility: Go to System Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard and ensure "Enable Slow Keys" is turned off. If active, it forces key repeat to stay on.

DVBURNSII · April 11

SilverBride wrote: »

Check Accessibility: Go to System Settings > Accessibility > Keyboard and ensure "Enable Slow Keys" is turned off. If active, it forces key repeat to stay on.

That setting is already off for me.

SilverBride · April 11

I hope you find a solution soon.

DVBURNSII · April 12

SilverBride wrote: »

I hope you find a solution soon.

Thank you for trying!

DVBURNSII · May 29

I am still seeking a solution for this issue if anyone else has any insight(s).

LootAllTheStuff · May 29

Confirmed that the following works on Sequoia (and earlier versions back to at least High Sierra).

Open the terminal app and enter the following text at the prompt:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false

You will need to restart any app that was running at the time. To reverse the effect, use the same text but with 'true' instead of 'false'

DVBURNSII · May 29

LootAllTheStuff wrote: »
Confirmed that the following works on Sequoia (and earlier versions back to at least High Sierra).

Open the terminal app and enter the following text at the prompt:
defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool false
You will need to restart any app that was running at the time. To reverse the effect, use the same text but with 'true' instead of 'false'

I tried this at one point but I seem to recall it quit working. My only PC is a 2025 Mac Mini M4 which I believe is currently MacOS 26.2. (I’ll verify and edit this later.)

LootAllTheStuff · May 29

It's possible that the modified setting got reset by an OS update, in which case you'd just need to reapply it. I hope it's not the case that Apple have deprecated this setting!