Hi, some of the keys on my mac book air aren't working e.g. Hyphen, colon but others such as question mark, full stop are fine. Does anyone know how to fix. My toddler pressed some keys on keyboard and this is the result!
Hi, my toddler pressed some keys on my keyboard and now some of my symbol keys such as comma, hyphen etc do not work. Others such as . and ? Are fine. Does anyone know how to fix? Thanks
You may have this sorted out by now - but if not try resetting your Language to English. I had the issue and found the emoji keyboard was set to spanish.
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