Adding accents while typing

I used to be able to add French accents by holding down the letter (a, e, etc.) and getting a pop-up screen to choose the accent. I seem to have lost that with OS 11.5.1. How can I get it back?

Posted on Aug 21, 2021 11:54 AM

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Posted on Aug 21, 2021 12:49 PM

One way to get it working again involved adding another latin-based language to the list of Input Sources. You can then remove it.


You can try copy/pasting this command into Terminal:

defaults write -g ApplePressAndHoldEnabled -bool true


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