Accidental Tech Podcast · Tuesday, July 7, 2026
The speaker discusses a significant change in the new Magic Keyboard design where the control key has been replaced by a globe/function key, and the option and command keys are shrunken. This shift disrupts the common 'control-click' method for right-clicking, leading to accidental function clicks.
“And instead of the control key being the lower left hand key on the keyboard, this stupid globe and F key is in the bottom left hand corner of the keyboard and then command and then option, excuse me, and then control than option than command.”
“So now every time I go to freaking right click instead I'm function clicking, which doesn't do anything.”
“I could set the trackpad to click in the bottom right and that's how I could do it. I'm aware. Whatever reason, I don't know why. I started doing control click like I'm a damn 80s Mac user, right, John?”