Mac shortcut for cloze deletion (same card)

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I’m currently on the new Anki update (25.07.2) on Mac.

The shortcut for “cloze deletion (same card)” on Mac is command shift option c.

Before the update this worked perfectly, now use of this shortcut creates the following: Ç{{c1::}}.
When I hold shift key and select the text I want to cloze delete and use this shortcut it replaces the text completely with this empty cloze and a cedilla c in front.

Not a huge deal but does interrupt work flow when making lots of clozes, having to go back and delete this Ç character everytime. Any way to fix this?

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I’m seeing the same behavior on 25.08b1.

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@DS02 @giragira –

  1. Are you using a keyboard layout other than US/International English?
  2. Have you restarted in safe mode (Troubleshooting Checklist #2) to eliminate the influence of add-ons?
  3. Go to Help/Anki > About – cllick “Copy Debug Info” – paste whatever you get from there here when you respond.
  4. @giragira Did you see this before installing the beta build? Which version did you upgrade from?
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I’m using Australian keyboard, but this shortcut issue has never been a problem in all the time I’ve used Anki before.
I have restarted in safe mode and there is no change (my only add-ons are image occlusion enhanced and heatmap).

debug info:
Anki 25.07.2 (3adcf05c) (ao)
Python 3.13.5 Qt 6.8.1 PyQt 6.8.0
Platform: macOS-15.1.1-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O

===Add-ons (active)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
Image Occlusion Enhanced [‘1374772155’, 2022-04-09T15:15, ‘None’, ‘’]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-30T09:43, ‘None’, ‘’]

===IDs of active AnkiWeb add-ons===
1374772155 1771074083

===Add-ons (inactive)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])

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Thanks for checking and verifying those things.

I’m thinking of similar issues that have been reported recently. But nothing is quite a match.

25.07.x doesn’t have the Qt version bump that’s cooking in 25.08 beta – but let’s wait to get confirmation from the other user before thinking of that as a possible solution.

Can you check that layout and your OS and see what the shortcut is for the ç character? If it’s Cmd + Opt + c, then your OS might be grabbing the shortcut first/also.

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shift + option + c inputs this “ç” on mac. Is there any way to disable this functionality on Anki from my end?

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That seems like a breakthrough. You’re typing that key combination and getting both the outside-of-Anki-typing response [for a portion of it, at least] and the inside-of-Anki-typing-(in a field) response.

  • Did you update your macOS during a similar timeframe?
  • Do you have any 3rd-party apps running on your system that might be listening for “universal” keybinds/shortcuts?
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No, I haven’t updated my OS. I use Anki for several hours a day and this issue arose immediately after I updated to the latest version earlier yesterday. I did have karabiner elements active for using a controller with anki but disabling that has made no change.

Just to test it, I used the new menu option to downgrade to 25.02.7 and this fixed the issue. So I would assume that something has changed in the new version?

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Thanks for checking that too. Hopefully this will give the devs enough to go on.

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No problem, thank you for your quick responses.

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@Danika_Dakika
I have the same issue. Hope that this issue can be fixed. Thanks.

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Thanks for the report. Please give us these addtiional details.

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Anki 25.07.2 (3adcf05c) (ao)
Python 3.13.5 Qt 6.8.1 PyQt 6.8.0
Platform: macOS-15.5-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O

===Add-ons (active)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
AwesomeTTS - Add speech to your flashcards [‘1436550454’, 2025-05-30T06:12, ‘None’, mod]
Cloze Overlapper for 23x [‘1784155610’, 2024-09-29T13:05, ‘None’, ‘’]
Image Occlusion Enhanced [‘1374772155’, 2022-04-09T15:15, ‘None’, ‘’]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-30T09:43, ‘None’, ‘’]

===IDs of active AnkiWeb add-ons===
1374772155 1436550454 1771074083 1784155610

===Add-ons (inactive)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])

Not using a keyboard layout other than US/International English.
No 3rd-party apps running on your system that might be listening for “universal” keybinds/shortcuts.

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I suspect it’s Qt related. Please help us confirm by editing pyproject.toml in Managing Files - Anki Manual to the following.

[project]
name = "anki-launcher"
version = "1.0.0"
description = "UV-based launcher for Anki."
requires-python = ">=3.9"
dependencies = [
  "anki==25.08b2",
  "aqt==25.08b2",
  "anki-audio",
  "pyqt6-qt6==6.6.3",
  "pyqt6-webengine-qt6==6.6.3"
]

Then run Anki as normal, and include the info from the About screen in future reports. Does that resolve your issue?

Sorry, to be clear, you need to use this launcher first: Release 25.08b2 · ankitects/anki · GitHub

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Sorry, not sure if I am following the instructions right.
I used the launcher then edited the pyproject.toml file.
everytime I go to open Anki after this the launcher re-installs anki and rewrites that pyproject.toml file.

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Please choose option 3 in the launcher, which should preserve the changes to the file you’ve made.

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Yes, that fixed it thank you very much.

Not sure if you still need the debug info but:

Anki 25.08b2 (e77cd791) (ao)
Python 3.13.5 Qt 6.6.3 PyQt 6.6.1
Platform: macOS-15.1.1-arm64-arm-64bit-Mach-O

===Add-ons (active)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])
‘’ [‘anki-launcher’, 0, ‘None’, ‘’]
Image Occlusion Enhanced [‘1374772155’, 2022-04-09T15:15, ‘None’, ‘’]
Review Heatmap [‘1771074083’, 2022-06-30T09:43, ‘None’, ‘’]

===IDs of active AnkiWeb add-ons===
1374772155 1771074083

===Add-ons (inactive)===
(add-on provided name [Add-on folder, installed at, version, is config changed])

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Thanks for the report; the next build should fix this.

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