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> It's never called the "Alt Key", at least not on MacOS. IIRC the option key had the word "Alt" above it in the late 1990s They continued doing this until rel

> It's never called the "Alt Key", at least not on MacOS. IIRC the option key had the word "Alt" above it in the late 1990s They continued doing this until relatively recently; here’s a photo of an Apple keyboard released in the last ten years: https://images.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3462401/Mac_keyboard_800home.jpg https://images.macworld.co.uk/cmsdata/features/3462401/Mac_k... I think they might have stopped doing it around the time they released the wireless versions with the Lightning port. Pretty sure the wireless versions with AA batteries had “Alt” on them.

Findecanor 3y ago
> I think they might have stopped doing it around the time they released the wireless versions with the Lightning port. According to some unattributed blurbs on Wikipedia, the "alt" sublegend would have disappeared in 2017, when the first-generation "Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad" replaced the full-sized "Apple Keyboard" in the image you linked to. The first compact "Magic Keyboard" had "alt" when it was introduced in 2015, as can be seen in reviews on the web from that year. But ... Those are the US-English variants. There are also many keyboards with other regional layouts and those have sometimes had slightly different legends on modifier keys.