# How the \`Prog\` key gets you into the Bootloader

**URL:** <https://community.keyboard.io/t/how-the-prog-key-gets-you-into-the-bootloader/506>\
**Category:** Help and Getting Started\
**Created:** [October 23, 2017, 9:39am UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/how-the-prog-key-gets-you-into-the-bootloader/506 "2017-10-23T09:39:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jesse](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex031/user_avatar/community.keyboard.io/jesse/32/361_2.png) [@jesse](https://community.keyboard.io/u/jesse)\
**Post date:** [October 24, 2017, 11:06pm UTC](https://community.keyboard.io/t/how-the-prog-key-gets-you-into-the-bootloader/506/11 "2017-10-24T23:06:32Z")

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> [@craigdissel](#):
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> Nope. Just tried it, and replugging the keyboard boots your custom firmware just like normal.

Indeed. Holding in the prog key just governs whether the keyboard jumps into the bootloader and won’t, itself, do anything to your code.

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