When I press Shift+3 on my Mac, it returns £ sign instead of # sign. How can I fix it? Any ideas?
Input source – British – PC
MacBook – Shift+3 returns £ sign instead of # sign
keyboardlanguagemac promacbook pro
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Best Answer
The keyboard is working as designed for Apple.
If you want to use the keyboard as normal the # is given by Alt-3
I found this annoying as well and the way I get round it is to change the input source to Australian the only difference is that Shift3 is now # and Alt3 is £
Input Source setting is System Preferences->Keyboard->Input Source By default this will just show the UK keyboard to see more hit the + at the bottom of the list and add Australian
This is the answer I gave in Stack Overflow and I think is a duplicate here as well but I could not find the original.