diff --git a/glfw/cocoa_window.m b/glfw/cocoa_window.m
index 8d2a5c2f3..c3aee006a 100644
--- a/glfw/cocoa_window.m
+++ b/glfw/cocoa_window.m
@@ -1481,7 +1481,7 @@ void _glfwPlatformUpdateIMEState(_GLFWwindow *w, const GLFWIMEUpdateEvent *ev) {
     _glfw.ns.text[sizeof(_glfw.ns.text) - 1] = 0;
     if (!in_key_handler && _glfw.ns.text[0]) {
         debug_key("sending text to kitty from insertText called from event loop: %s\n", _glfw.ns.text);
-        GLFWkeyevent glfw_keyevent = {.text=_glfw.ns.text};
+        GLFWkeyevent glfw_keyevent = {.text=_glfw.ns.text, .ime_state=GLFW_IME_COMMIT_TEXT};
         _glfwInputKeyboard(window, &glfw_keyevent);
         _glfw.ns.text[0] = 0;
     }
diff --git a/kitty/keys.c b/kitty/keys.c
index ec9fea5e8..5985182d9 100644
--- a/kitty/keys.c
+++ b/kitty/keys.c
@@ -152,12 +152,6 @@ on_key_input(GLFWkeyevent *ev) {
             debug("invalid state, ignoring\n");
             return;
     }
-    if (!native_key && !key && text[0]) {
-        // key == 0 is sent by the glfw coca backend when text is inserted by the IME outside the key handlers
-        schedule_write_to_child(w->id, 1, text, strlen(text));
-        debug("sent key as text to child\n");
-        return;
-    }
     PyObject *ke = NULL;
 #define create_key_event() { ke = convert_glfw_key_event_to_python(ev); if (!ke) { PyErr_Print(); return; } }
     if (global_state.in_sequence_mode) {