The hash symbol – also known as the pound/number ... if you are in the U.K. it is a little trickier. If you have an Apple keyboard, with a U.S. keyboard layout, things are simple.

TL;DR: Apple has updated the mute key on the MacBook Air M4 to feature a speaker symbol with a strikethrough ... it was an oddity with the keyboard, and a slight pitfall for some Mac owners.

Apple users had lived with a small inconsistency between the physical keyboard symbols and the way macOS represented them for decades. While this inconsistency might not have been a significant ...