Dan MorenMar 8
Interesting change between the M4 and M5 generations of MacBook: Apple’s replaced some of the keyboard labels with glyphs alone: tab, caps lock, shift, delete, and return. Fn, Control, Option, Command, and esc all retain their labels.
Show threadNiléaneMar 8
@dmoren it's already like this on my M2 Air fwiw
Show threadDan Moren
@nileane Yeah, it’s been like this outside the US for a while. But the US ones have had the labels for years.
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Show threadGus MuellerMar 8
@dmoren @nileane Any ideas as to why control/option/command still have labels?
Show threadPierre-Luc GagnéMar 8
@dmoren @nileane I’m fascinated by this change. Who at Apple won against the last holdout of textual labeling on US keyboards? Who retired to allow this change? Schiller?
Show threadMagnus AhltorpMar 9

@dmoren @nileane I always found it quaint that Apple US keyboards used only text for the shift key. It doesn’t even match the shortcut icon in the menus. And it doesn’t match the iOS keyboards.

On all the keyboard pictures I can find, Mac keyboards have always (since the original Mac) used text for the shift key in the US and the symbol everywhere else.

They often use the English names for control, option and command even on non-English keyboards, so it’s not like it’s for localisation.