Swap @ and " keys

TheGamingGeneral · 9 Aug 2025 at 21:24

Hello, I have a Windows PC and Mac mini hybrid set up where I use the same peripherals for both. Largely working a treat, but the keyboard @ and " are swapped to the (presumably) US style. I've been hunting in the settings off and on for weeks/months, but I can't find a way to fix it. As far as I can tell, the system is configured for British/UK, and there are no other English language options selected, but it still won't change. I'm thinking maybe it's the keyboard but that comes up as ''ISO International'' not the US type.

Is there a way for me to force a swap of the keys? I see text input and text replacement, but I don't think that's quite what I am looking for. I've tried it, doesn't work.

Any suggestions welcome, many thanks

alex24 · 9 Aug 2025 at 21:50

I noticed this too and UK MacBooks and keyboards also have these keys (and others) in a different layout.

You could try something like Karabiner to remap the keys.

brendy · 9 Aug 2025 at 22:41

You need to change all of the region settings, there's three iirc.

Cromulent · 10 Aug 2025 at 09:27

Yeah. Mac and Windows UK layout is swapped for some reason. You get used to it though.

JollyJamma · 17 Aug 2025 at 09:29

TheGamingGeneral said:
Hello, I have a Windows PC and Mac mini hybrid set up where I use the same peripherals for both. Largely working a treat, but the keyboard @ and " are swapped to the (presumably) US style. I've been hunting in the settings off and on for weeks/months, but I can't find a way to fix it. As far as I can tell, the system is configured for British/UK, and there are no other English language options selected, but it still won't change. I'm thinking maybe it's the keyboard but that comes up as ''ISO International'' not the US type.

Is there a way for me to force a swap of the keys? I see text input and text replacement, but I don't think that's quite what I am looking for. I've tried it, doesn't work.

Any suggestions welcome, many thanks

AFAIK, OSX is dumb and won’t let you have different keyboard and global settings.

I have several keyboards including UK and US format and OSX hates it and won’t let me remap my Nuphy Halo 65 as it’s ANSI when I’ve got UK local settings.

Windows at at least allows you to have multiple languages and keyboards and global settings at once.

There may be an app to force OSX to listen.