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Make Your Mac Caps Lock Key Your Emoji Key

You know how, on your Mac, you can remap the Caps Lock key to not caps lock, because you’re not a MONSTER!? Well, did you know that instead of a mapping it to shift or turning it off like some kind of nerd 🤓, you can map it to bring up the emoji menu? Like a legend 😎

Settings→Keyboard→Keyboard Shortcuts→Modifier Keys

Set the Caps Lock Key to Globe

Then back in Settings→Keyboard, set the Press 🌐 Key to to Show Emoji & Symbols.

Rockin' 🎸

The setting dialog on Mac 15.1 in Settings→Keyboard→Keyboard Shortcuts. The Modifier Keys section is selected showing which keys are maped to what on my Mac. Here, Caps lock is mapped to Globethe section of Settings→Keyboard where you set what the globe key does. Here I have set it to Show Emoji & Symbols.

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