Little Fingers: Mac keyboard lock for kids and cats

Little kids, cats, or tiny kittens can be quite a joke on the Mac keyboard and trackpad on the MacBook. Little Fingers is an app for macOS on the Apple Mac, which should leave the keyboard and pad unmolested by children's hands and cat paws when watching children's series, making FaceTime phone calls with the family and when using it unattended. With the key combination Shift + Ctrl + Alt + Cmd + L, the keys are locked and released so that nothing is unintentionally changed, created, deleted, sent or terminated.

Shaun Inman Mac software

Shaun Inman is a designer and developer based out of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He developed the Little Fingers app for macOS because he wanted to make it impossible for his son Lincoln to use the keyboard and trackpad with certain uses of the Apple Mac. First he - as anyone else would do - looked for such an app or a macOS command for this purpose on Google, but found nothing. So he programmed the software himself:

Yesterday, after a quick Google, I wondered aloud on Twitter if there was a Mac app that could disable all keyboard and trackpad input via key command. There wasn't so I made one. I call it Little Fingers.

Little Fingers Download

As mentioned in a guidebook some time ago, you should Only download Mac apps directly from the developer. So with regard to the Little Fingers download, the URL is shauninman.com the means of choice. To get the 3 MB small program, simply click on "Download Little Fingers" at the bottom of the page. In addition, the developers among you can also use the open source elements for their own projects or adjustments download from GitHub.

More details on Little Fingers 1.1

The current version of the software allows it to be called up when macOS is started. So you can lock the Mac keyboard and the MacBook trackpad whenever you think of it or whenever it is useful. In addition, the developer assures on the above-mentioned page and with the provision of the code on GitHub that the program only listens to the key combination Shift + Ctrl + Alt + Cmd + L (⇧ ^ ⌥ ⌘ L) and does not spy on any other activities as a request for action used or recorded.

Recommended reading: Apple Mac Keyboard - Key Names and Functions

Johannes Domke

After graduating from high school, Johannes completed an apprenticeship as a business assistant specializing in foreign languages. But then he decided to research and write, which resulted in his independence. For several years he has been working for Sir Apfelot, among others. His articles include product introductions, news, manuals, video games, consoles, and more. He follows Apple keynotes live via stream.