Pavel Jelic If you switched to the macOS operating system from the competing Windows, you may have already noticed that there is no application available to launch the on-screen keyboard. In Windows, this feature is available and comes in handy in a few different cases – for example, when you want to control your computer remotely with just a mouse, without a physical keyboard. In any case, the on-screen keyboard is a part of macOS, but not as an application, but as an option in the system preferences. So, if you want to know how to display the on-screen keyboard on Mac, then continue reading.
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If you would like to activate the on-screen keyboard on your macOS device, it is not difficult, that is, with our instructions. Classically, you probably wouldn't find this option. So proceed as follows:
- First, you need to tap on in the upper left corner icon .
- Once you do so, a menu will appear in which to select System Preferences…
- After that, a new window will open with all available sections for editing system preferences.
- Within this window, click on the section named Disclosure.
- Now go down a piece in the left menu below and click the tab Keyboard.
- Then move to the section in the top menu Keyboard made available.
- Here it is enough that you ticked possibility Turn on keyboard accessibility.
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Immediately after that, a keyboard will appear on the screen that you can start using. As soon as you close the keyboard with a cross, it will be necessary to go to Accessibility again according to the procedure mentioned above in order to display it again. Unfortunately, there is no simpler option to activate the on-screen keyboard. Anyway, if you need the on-screen keyboard in macOS sometime in the future, now you know how to activate it.
