Now when you use any of the function keys related to iTunes:
If that doesn’t work? Check to see if you’re running Microsoft Office as I’ve found those can monkey up the function keys… keys as standard function keys” is not checked. The fix is simply to ensure that the box adjacent to “Use all F1, F2, etc. If you check this box, then other programs can redefine any or all of these helpful function keys to mean something else. You can see the needed check box above, but let’s zoom in a bit:Īs you can see, it’s not checked, which is what you want. You can see it here, third from the left. Start by going to the Apple menu on your system and choosing “System Preferences…” What’s most likely happened on your system is that you’ve run another program that wanted to use those specific keys on your keyboard - functions keys f7, f8 and f9 - for another purpose and they’ve overwritten their meaning to the operating system.Īgain, nothing to panic about and the fix turns out to be surprisingly easy.
In fact, Apple iTunes doesn’t even have the ability to set or ignore function keys on your keyboard, whether you’re on a big iMac or a tiny MacBook Air. Nothing in iTunes is broken, I can start by telling you that.
