Same with the power button.

I think the 2009 era Mac usb keyboard also does this

Oh wow. This also is the case with the regular Magic Keyboard.

I disabled Caps Lock on my keyboard :)

I’ve never accidentally hit CAPS lock button on any computer ever.

Looks like a MacBook keyboard driver exclusive feature though. I’m often using a Keychron K3 and get so mad when accidentally fat fingering caps lock instead of tab.

My MacBook Pro from 2007 had this - when they were on the second generation of Intel devices. A lot of people thought it was a keyboard defect back then. And reading this thread, they still do :)

I remapped my caps lock key to be CTRL instead. It’s much more useful that way.

Well, it’s not reading my mind properly unfortunately… Any way to turn this off and make it behave just like a normal button?

Is that why 3rd party keyboard sometimes show caps lock on when macos doesn’t?

It gets it wrong half the time, a constant frustration for my 14 years of Mac ownership

I don’t like it, can I disable it? Much more often I mean to press it and it isn’t pressed than I didn’t mean to and this feature helped…

This thread has made me realize I never use caps lock. Ive been using macOS for 14 years and didn’t know about this delay 😂

My Caps Lock is keybound to ESC, which is maybe a holdover from my touchbar days but now that I’m used to it I love it.

in multiple decades of using computers I have never ever had a need for caps lock, i probably cared most about that useless button in my vim/emacs years where it got remapped to esc until this day