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# How to customize keys on macOS
- URL: https://en.blog.themarfa.name/how-to-customize-keys-on-macos/
- Published: 2023-12-18T07:15:22.000Z
- Updated: 2023-12-18T07:15:22.000Z
- Description: You can customize the behavior of any keys using the Karabiner-Elements utility.
- Author: Konstantin Dokuchaev
- Tags: macos, Karabiner-Elements

After moving from Windows to macOS, I continue to suffer from the lack of simple, but so familiar things. After all, as it turns out, macOS does not have a normal Delete button or other key combinations.

### Solution to all problems

You can customize the behavior of any keys using the [**Karabiner-Elements**](https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/) utility. True, you will have to go through not the easiest installation and initial setup.

But after launch, you can make basic settings for the behavior of the keys in the **Simple Modification** section. Here you can change parameters for all input devices or only for a specific one. Just click the **Add Item** button and select the key and the desired action for it.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2023/12/image-2.png)

In the **Function Keys** section, you can similarly reconfigure the behavior of the Fn keys to any other action. Or just make them regular F1-F12 buttons.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2023/12/image-4.png)

For more advanced settings, you should take a look at the **Complex Modification** section, where you can create your own rules or download rules from the community. For example, you can configure the entire line to be deleted by pressing Command + fn + Delete.

![](https://blog.themarfa.name/content/images/2023/12/image-5.png)

All settings can be divided into profiles and have different key combinations, for example for work and home.

Karabiner-Elements is a free and open-source application. In addition, the developer considered[ your ](https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/docs/privacy/)concerns about the leak of keystrokes. Therefore, no information about clicks, settings or other statistics is collected at the architectural level.

[Try Karabiner-Elements](https://translate.google.com/website?sl=ru&tl=en&hl=ru&client=webapp&u=https://karabiner-elements.pqrs.org/)