How to make keyboard shortcuts easier to perform in macOS 12 Monterey

This section gives you step by step instructions on how to enable Sticky Keys in macOS 12 Monterey, with pictures of the screens to help.

1. Click the Apple icon in the top left corner of the screen and choose System Preferences from the menu.

2. In the System Preferences window, click Accessibility.

3. In the sidebar, scroll down and click Keyboard. On the right, select the Hardware tab.

4. Tick the checkbox for Enable Sticky Keys.

5. To customise Sticky Keys, click the Options button.

If you want to be able to turn Sticky Keys on and off from the keyboard, tick the box for Press the Shift key five times to toggle Sticky Keys.

If you want to hear a sound when a modifier key (Cmd, Alt, Shift, Ctrl) is pressed, tick the checkbox for Beep when a modifier key is set.

If you want to see a notification showing which modifier keys you have pressed, tick the checkbox for Display pressed keys on screen. From the drop-down menu, choose which corner to position the notification.

Click the OK button to save your changes.

6. To use Sticky Keys, press the keys for the required shortcut, one after the other.

To keep any of the modifier keys (Cmd, Alt, Shift, Ctrl) ‘pressed’, press it twice. To ‘un-press’ a key, press it a third time.

The on-screen indicator will show which modifier keys have been pressed. If a key has been pressed once, the icon will be grey. If a key has been pressed twice, the icon will be white.