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November 1 2025 - 2:21 pm

Keyboard Shortcuts in Tahoe

After installing macOS 26, I couldn't figure out how to assign keyboard shortcuts to AppleScripts in the Music app's Scripts menu. Simply entering the script's name in the System Settings > Keyboard > Keyboard Shortcuts panel along with a key combination and attatching it to "Music" wasn't doing anything.

After a bunch of Dumb Experiments, which is what One Does with AppleScript, I figured it out and here's how to assign keyboard shortcuts to your scripts in the Music app in macOS 26:

Open System Settings and choose "Keyboard" in the left column. In the "Keyboard" panel, press the "Keyboard Shortcuts..." button. In the left column of the panel that opens, click "App Shortcuts". Press the "+" button to add a new shortcut to a menu item.

Set Application to "All Applications" (not "Music"). For the Menu title, enter "Scripts->" followed by the exact name of the script as it appears in the Music app's Scripts menu. Then enter your keyboard combination.

Click "Done" and back out of all that System Settings stuff. If you don't see the shortcut you entered displayed next to the name of the script in the Scripts menu, try restarting the Music app. If you still don't see it, perhaps the shortcut you entered is used elsewhere and can't be over-ridden. So try again with a different shortcut.

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