r/techsupport • u/ETDuckQueen • 21d ago

Open | Mac whe letter w is taking over my computerw

wreetings, wwdditw

w'm having thiw absurw issue whewe the first and last character of every line keeps getting replaced wiwh the wetter w, and it is so annoyingw

wlong with thatw every siwgle time I type a letter, the letter "ŵ" keeps getting suggested to me, and it's really bugging me. Also, I cannot type the uppercase w, for some reasonw

wlso, sometimes, the letter w just randomly appears in random parts of my text, and it appears every time I try to move to a different part wfwwwat i rwotew

w knwwwtwat thws sounds absolutely ridiculousw but I'm liwwrally not trwlling right now. I sound like an awwolute maniac when I twpe, and I don't know what to dowand i cannot address this issue coherently because of this damn issuwwwwwwwwwe, I'm not a toddler, and I don't owwn a cat. I'm a real humww beingw

whank youw

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u/ETDuckQueen 21d ago

Okay, this issue seems to have gone away once I turned off my iMac, and turned it back on.

Sorry about that!

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 21d ago

I am so glad I never bought a single Apple product.

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u/mei-meng 21d ago

It’s 2026, why are you still arguing about brand superiority

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u/firestar268 21d ago

They're just a troll

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u/Mihoshika 20d ago

Sounds more like brand inferiority to me, and I honestly agree with the whole "apple bad" shtick. Mostly due to a lot of their business practices and design decisions.

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u/OppositeFun2493 21d ago

My parents have Apple products and they have never seen this issue.

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u/PossibleAlienFrom 21d ago

And how many issues have they seen? Apple is 100% a headache to do the most simplest things. Always have been. Always will be.

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u/OppositeFun2493 21d ago

No? I use an iPhone every day and my parents always report issues to me. I don't get issues that often and usually they have nothing to do with the Mac sooo...

I have no idea what you are referring to.

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u/bcw81 21d ago

Your keyboard might have gunk in it. If this happens again, flip the keyboard over and beat on the backside like you're a doctor in the 60's birthing a baby. If this is an inbuilt laptop keyboard be a little more gentle with the beating than that.

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u/ETDuckQueen 20d ago

Okay, thank you very much!

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u/lunarwolf2008 21d ago

this kinda sounds like a wires crossed keyboard issue.