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I've always wondered why they don't put the shift symbol on the keyboards when all the other symbols exist

Some keyboards use icons, others text. See for example this: https://support.apple.com/library/content/dam/edam/applecare....

> I've always wondered why they don't put the shift symbol on the keyboards when all the other symbols exist.

My keyboard doesn't have any key for the symbol ⌥ or ⌘, either. Or do you mean that all the other modifier keys on Mac-branded keyboards are labelled with their symbols, whereas shift isn't?

On my M1 MacBook Pro I see symbols on all modifiers except shift

So you meant that the non-shift modifier keys have symbols on them (same for me!), not that there is a key that is intended to produce the symbol that denotes the modifier, right?

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