Photoshop shortcuts and "tilde" (~) shortcut, in an AZERTY keyboard.

For windows user :

Workaround 1 : change your keyboard location (language) per application in advanced keyboard parameter. After that you have to change language once whenever you use an app then it will remember it.

Workaround 2 : remap your key using Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator on official microsoft website. I have a french keyboard and remaped the ² key to ` key (accent grave, which unicode is U+0060). Validate layout and name it, test it, build package, open created folder, intall.exe, then log out windows, log in, change to your new keyboard layout (win+space) et voilà!!! works great and my layout still azerty ! (works with win 11 even if not mentionned on website)

And you can remap any (more or less) key you want with symbol and other not available in your language, you can use charmap.exe (included in windows) to find them and their unicode. ((!be careful, works also with windows login password)

(but sadly workaround 2 does not work with tourbox, so still waiting for a proper fix...)

@Trevor.Dennis 

I picked the Apple Support Community's answer even if it was tagged "MacOS and Windows" and the answer given here as the solution.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3775219?answerId=17740205022#17740205022

Going to the Brush/Eraser hotkey, it's actually the `/~ key on a QWERTY keyboard and selecting only the brush first, then pressing that key will flip it to the eraser.  ` and ~ will do the same thing.

While QWERTY Photoshop uses this key, I'm guessing the AZERTY Shift +  >/< key would be the equivalent, but not sure if it has been adopted yet as the Brush/Eraser switch key.

We will need more information as to what AZERTY keyboard he has if it's not the French keyboard.

Try Shift plus which is to the left of the w. I think that's the tilde equivalent on AZERTY keyboards.

The tilde key toggles between the brush tool and the eraser tool when pressed. (Since Photoshop 2020).

As I understand it, this is a dedicated shortcut like the Tab or Esc key and can't be changed.