Take a look at any other apps listed in your Mac's preferences under Security & Privacy > Privacy > Accessibility, and remove any non-essential apps. If you've carefully followed the steps above and are still unable to expand your snippets, another app may be interfering. ![]() password managers) can be the cause, so enable plugins one at a time to test them. If the issue occurs frequently, try launching a minimum number of apps/services on your Mac, and re-launching apps one by one, allowing you to establish which app or service is locking secure input by process of elimination. This can be resolved by restarting your Mac, or logging out fully and logging back in. when you've recently logged into your Mac, or after waking your computer and typing your password). This can be because macOS itself has left the secure input enabled (e.g. If Alfred reports that 'loginwindow seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure input', it's likely that Alfred is unable to tell which application is using secure input. The error message usually makes it easy to identify which application has locked secure input. ![]() If you're unable to expand your snippet, check these preferences and quit or re-launch the appropriate app. Secure Input may be lockedĪlfred will show a warning in the Snippets preferences letting you know that an app 'seems to be preventing text expansion by locking secure entry'. In the example below, there are two spaces before the keyword 'andrew' and a space before and after 'luke', so the snippet will only expand when typed with these spaces around them. Use the correct keywordĬheck that there are no unexpected spaces in your keyword. The others will not auto-expand when the keyword is typed. In the example below, only the top two snippets are set to auto-expand when their keyword is used. In your Snippets preferences, ensure the checkbox next to the specific snippet you want to expand is checked. This will ensure that if macOS (particularly macOS Catalina) has corrupted any permissions, this will refresh them. If it is already checked, please quit Alfred 4, remove and re-add Alfred 4 to the Accessibility preferences, then relaunch Alfred. Alfred needs to be listed here and the box next to it must be checked. In order for Alfred to be able to recognise the keywords for your text snippets, you need to ensure that Alfred 4 is granted Accessibility access in your Mac's Security & Privacy preferences, under Accessibility. Take a look at the steps below if the 'Alfred Text Service' pop-up doesn't appear. The 'Welcome to Alfred's Text Expansion' pop-up should appear Follow the steps as described in the Text Expansion activation page. Launch Alfred's preferences to Features > Snippets and check the box in the top right to 'Automatically expand snippets by keyword'. ![]() Check by going to the 'Update' tab, where you'll be notified if there's a newer version available. Activate expansion in Alfred's preferencesįirst, ensure you're using the latest version of Alfred.
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