macOS obsidian can't use keyboard shortcut to toggle on/off Left Sidebar

[frank_zhang]

After setting up keyboard shortcut for toggling on/off Left Sidebar in system settings-keyboard-keyboard shortcut, though pressing that combination will check/uncheck View/Left Sidebar, left sidebar still remains the same.

I can only click on View/Left Sidebar to toggle on/off left sidebar.

Steps to reproduce

1. Go to system settings-keyboard-keyboard shortcut-app shortcut, create a new shortcut for obsidian.
2. In menu title, type in Left Sidebar, and in keyboard shortcut, press Cmd-Option-/, click on Done to save obsidian shortcut, and then press Done to save keyboard shortcut.
3. Open obsidian, press Cmd-Option-/, the menu in View-Left Sidebar is checked, but left sidebar remains there.

Did you follow the troubleshooting guide? [Y/N]

Y

Expected result

After pressing cmd-option-/, left sidebar will disappear.

Actual result

After pressing the shortcut, left sidebar didn't disappear.

Environment

SYSTEM INFO:
Obsidian version: v1.9.10
Installer version: v1.8.7
Operating system: Darwin Kernel Version 24.6.0: Mon Jul 14 11:30:34 PDT 2025; root:xnu-11417.140.69~1/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 24.6.0
Login status: logged in
Language: en
Catalyst license: none
Insider build toggle: off
Live preview: on
Base theme: adapt to system
Community theme: none
Snippets enabled: 0
Restricted mode: off
Plugins installed: 1
Plugins enabled: 1
1: Templater v2.13.1

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Additional information

[WhiteNoise]

we don’t support macos shortcuts. Obsidian commands/hotkeys can be set within obsidian via Settings->Hotkeys.