Arrow keys keep on speeding through images without touching

[nils_2677]

When I want to skip through hundreds or thousands of photos in Lightroom Classic (Version 15.0.1) in the film strip I mostly get this very annoying problem: after holding the arrow key to the right or left for a few seconds it doesn't stop anymore to speed through the images though I'm no more holding the arrow key. Sometimes it's going on for "just" a couple of hundred further photos and sometimes even through thousands of photos until the very last photo in the strip. I can't even stop it.

This first started three months ago when I updated on a new MacBook. On my old Macbook this never happened in years. 
Does someone got an Idea to fix this bug?

[Bob Somrak]

No issue here in either Library Loupe or Develop.  M4Pro Mac Mini 48GB

[Califdan2]

Presumably your new Mac is a faster machine than your old one and perhaps with a newer OS.  When you hold down a key (rather than just momentarily clicking it), it sends repeateded "key click" commands to the OS over and over till you let go of the button.   Open a text field or document and hold down the "a" key and you'll see a whole row of A's show up.   On your old machine the pace of these repeats was slower and perhaps the keyboard buffer in the machine was smaller so it didn't scroll as far as it processed the queue of those repeated arrow commands.  On the new computer rather than, say, getting 5 repeats per second perhaps you are now getting 100 per second and rather than being able to queue up 20 keystrokes 'to get to' it can now queue up, say, 100 (made up numbers to illustrate point)

If you only want it to go a little ways, don't hold down the arrow key, but rather click it multiple times.

[willm26526997]

I have been having the same issue now since about june of this year on my M1 Max Macbook pro, with lightroom classic. ive udpated the OS to the current macos tahoe 26.1 and LRC is currently 15.0.1 updated to the most current and also have this same issue. if i hold down the arrow keys in one direction or another ts speeds up and keeps going well after i let go and will contineue to go til hudnreds of photos later or end of strip. 

i have tried this on a new library and catalog and still is occurring as well. 

[sanderhalter]

I have the same issue on a Macbook M1 Max, when I hold it just a little longer then going to the next foto it starts scrolling for 100 photo's or so. I think this issue started with updating to MacOS 26.1

[CMass]

Can you try turning off your GPU? I'm curious. Highly doubt it'll do anything, though. 

Also, does it only do it on that one device? Do you have any other devices to try?

^CM

[Conrad_C]

A similar thing happens to me in other applications too, such as if I hold down the arrow key in Acrobat to turn pages. What might be happening is that macOS is able to send arrow key presses to the application faster than the application can execute them, so it overshoots.  

One possible workaround is to reduce the Key Repeat Rate in macOS to maybe limit how quickly repeat key presses are sent. I’m not sure how much difference it might make on your Mac, but it’s something to try.