Once you’ve done the above, delete everything above this line.
Steps to reproduce
Make sure the “auto-pair brackets” is active in the Editor settings.
Start typing a shortcut that begins with a bracket, like “(r” which begins the “®” shortcut for the “registered” symbol.
Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]
Y
Expected result
The “(r” should remain as more letters are typed.
Actual result
The auto-pair supplies the closing “)” which then activates the system’s replacement to fill in the “registered” symbol. This doesn’t happen in other apps, so it’s something to do with the way Obsidian is working.
Environment
SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.14
Installer version: v1.9.10
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 23.6.0: Mon Aug 11 21:21:38 PDT 2025; root:xnu-10063.141.1.706.13~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8112 23.6.0
Login status: not logged in
Language: en
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: AnuPpuccin v1.5.0
Snippets enabled: 2
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 27
Plugins enabled: 24
1: Advanced Tables v0.22.1
2: Dataview v0.5.68
3: Enhancing Export v1.10.9
4: Find & Replace in Selection v1.1.0
5: Footnote Shortcut v0.1.3
6: Front Matter Title v3.13.1
7: Global Search and Replace v0.5.0
8: Graph View Text Size v1.0.1
9: Image Captions v1.1.6
10: Leaflet v6.0.5
11: Linter v1.29.2
12: Mapbox Location Image v2.0.2
13: Natural Language Dates v0.6.2
14: Nested tags graph v1.0.4
15: New Tab + v1.4.2
16: Pandoc Plugin v0.4.1
17: Pandoc Reference List v2.0.25
18: Zotero Integration v3.2.1
19: Style Settings v1.0.9
20: Regex Find/Replace v1.2.0
21: Recent Files v1.7.4
22: Persistent Graph v0.1.5
23: Copy document as HTML v0.8.1
24: Better Export PDF v1.11.0
RECOMMENDATIONS:
Custom theme and snippets: for cosmetic issues, please first try updating your theme and disabling your snippets. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community theme and snippets.
Community plugins: for bugs, please first try updating all your plugins to latest. If still not fixed, please try to make the issue happen in the Sandbox Vault or disable community plugins.