{"id":38336,"date":"2023-01-31T16:17:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T21:17:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=38336"},"modified":"2023-02-01T15:23:39","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T20:23:39","slug":"disabling-the-macbook-screen-lock-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/31\/disabling-the-macbook-screen-lock-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Disabling the MacBook Screen Lock Key"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.plover.com\/tech\/mac-lock-button.html\">Mark Dominus<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/blog.plover.com\/tech\/mac-lock-button.html\"><p>If you tap the mystery button momentarily, the screen locks, which is very convenient, I guess, if you have to pee a lot. But they put the mystery button right above the delete key, and several times a day I fat-finger the delete key, tap the corner of the mystery button, and the screen locks. Then I have to stop what I am doing and type in my password to unlock the screen again.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>This question was tough to search for. I found a lot of questions\nabout disabling touch ID, about configuring the touch ID key to <em>lock<\/em>\nthe screen, basically every possible incorrect permutation of what I\nactually wanted.  I did eventually find what I wanted on Stack\nExchange and on Quora &mdash; but no useful answers.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><p>The key to the mystery was provided by Roslyn\nChu.  She suggested\n<a href=\"https:\/\/osxdaily.com\/2014\/04\/09\/stop-power-button-turning-off-mac-display\/\">this page from 2014<\/a>\nwhich has an incantation that worked back in ancient times. That incantation didn&rsquo;t work on my computer, but it put me on the trail to the right one.<\/p><p>[&#8230;]<\/p><pre>defaults write com.apple.loginwindow DisableScreenLockImmediate -bool yes<\/pre><\/blockquote>\n\n<p id=\"disabling-the-macbook-screen-lock-key-update-2023-02-01\">Update (2023-02-01): <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinkunde\/status\/1620545876036059137\">Robin Kunde<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/robinkunde\/status\/1620545876036059137\">\n<p>I actually want to use the button to lock the screen, but for me it is too unreliable. It locks only half the times I press it, and if I rest my finger too long after pressing, Touch ID immediately unlocks the screen again.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Dominus: If you tap the mystery button momentarily, the screen locks, which is very convenient, I guess, if you have to pee a lot. But they put the mystery button right above the delete key, and several times a day I fat-finger the delete key, tap the corner of the mystery button, and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2023-01-31T21:17:36Z","apple_news_api_id":"1b7e9f25-6b08-4a8f-866f-c02bf6efc0db","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2023-02-01T20:23:42Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AG36fJWsISo-Gb8Ar9u_A2w","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[649,30,32,1155,100,2077,573],"class_list":["post-38336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-esoteric-preferences","tag-mac","tag-macapp","tag-macbook","tag-macbookpro","tag-macos-12","tag-touch-id"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38336"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38347,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38336\/revisions\/38347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}