I use an accessibility keyboard without a physical keyboard at login on my M1 Mac mini. Often the accessibility keyboard disappears as I am typing the login password. It is intermittent. How can I keep this from happening and force the keyboard to stay on during login?
MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 15.6
I don't know if it's a known issue.
I would try a few more things:
•eliminate all virus, vpn etc as is discussed many times on this forum
•create a test user account and see if you have the same problem there
•start up in recovery mode and use disk first aid on your hardrive from disk utility
•reinstall the OS
pdate; I have changed both dwell corners and hot corners in settings to the - for each corner, but when the login screen starts, it acts as if I have a mouse pointer dwelling at the bottom right corner. The dwell animation takes place and when finished, it hides the accessibility keyboard. What can I do to completely disable hot corners and dwell corners at login?
Thank you I will try! Was this a known issue in an earlier version of Sequoia?
Ok I have done the update and sterted in safe mode and then restarted. Keyboard still intermittently disappears and I cannot figure out how to get it to display again without restarting
Is there any workaround for this? I was told I should see an accessibility button on the login screen as well, but I have never seen it.
Please no more canned "did you try turning it off and back on again/reinstall your OS" stuff...Is there some command or something to bring the keyboard back up while you are in the login screen?
I would first upgrade to the latest Sequoia 15.7.2
Then I would start the mac in safe mode:
Start up your Mac in safe mode - Apple Support
Then after starting in safe mode, restart normally.
Hope this helps.
Accessibility Keyboard disappears during login on M1 Mac
