
When you search, this is the app that first pops up. Examples of these apps are Karabiner-Elements, KeyboardLocker, and also Keyboard Clean. Since it’s tricky to use the previous methods to disable your keyboard, it’s best and more advisable to find a third-party app on the App store or elsewhere that can help you do it. But we think the function of this Command + F1 is it disables other function keys on the keyboard. If you conduct some research on the internet, you will discover that many people have said this method does not work. So after some research, we saw that this option does not work on new macOS versions, but it still works with the older version. However, those keys that can help move the mouse still function normally. On macOS Big Sur, you can’t use the mouse key setting to disable the remaining part of the keyboard, although it is still available. There are variations in this method, such as setting the Option key, then pressing it 5 times to disable the trackpad and enable the mouse keys.

Then, open “Universal Access” and click on the “Trackpad and Mouse” tab. You can easily get this done by finding your way to System Preferences. The best way to disable your keyboard with previous macOS versions is to enable mouse keys in the settings.

The old method can be either enabling mouse key settings, using macOS Big Sur, or using Command + F1. You can choose to follow different procedures when using the old method. So let’s talk about the old ways or methods of disabling Mac’s keyboard before the new method. And recently, there have been developments regarding disabling the keyboard. In disabling your keyboard, some methods have been tagged as old, and some people think it doesn’t work anymore.
