Safe Boot and the Shift Key?

72dpi wrote:

Thanks for your reply leroydouglas.

I have never customized any keys. It never changed in Continue until I tried this. Interestingly as well, it only says Safe Mode when it's starting up but disappears from the top right corner of the screen after it's open.

—That reference is for Intel Mac— you indicate you are running a 14" M-series SoC Mac...(?)

—M series you have to go through the extra hoop of "start up options" ...and

 "Continue in Safe Mode" button below your startup disk. Your Mac restarts— and the detail reads:

"When you see the login window, you might also see "Safe Boot" in red text in the upper-right corner of the login window." Full stop.

if somehow you are in doubt, from the Terminal.app copy & paste:

system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType | grep "Boot Mode"

if it "feel like it's not quite right."

You can submit your Apple Feedback here:  Product Feedback - Apple

72dpi wrote:

When attempting to Safe Boot with my MacBook M3 Pro, every instruction says to hold the Shift key to change Continue to Continue in Safe Boot. This has never worked for me. I did find that if I hold Option/Command/Shift I can get it to change. Just wondering if there is some setting to change so it works as it's supposed to?

Thanks for your help.

you can review— Start up your Mac in safe mode

or

Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support

i guess it is possible you customized some key combinations(?) but I would do what works.

I see no change.