press and hold for accents

I have a 2020 MacBook Air and version 11.1 macOS Big Sur. I write in French a lot and the press and hold to show the accents menu is not working on my machine. I just get the letter repeated. Can anyone help?

MacBook Air

Posted on Jan 30, 2021 10:20 AM

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Posted on Jan 30, 2021 10:58 AM

Turn on the accents with this Terminal command:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true

followed by the Return key. Then reboot to activate the feature.


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