@MISTERHOLLYW00D said in Press Hotkey twice to exit retroarch:

I’ve noticed on retroarch in hotkey binds it has the option to press hotkey twice to exit retroarch.

If you're referring to the new 'Confirm Quit' menu, then it's not 'press hotkey twice to exit', but press the 'Press the Quit Hotkey twice to quit', i.e. press the hotkey+Quit key to exit. This option is Off by default in RetroPie.

Anyway to change the coding on this for a hard press...holding the hotkey to exit instead?

That should be addressed upstream (RetroArch), but I'd say no, since it would be too easy to exit the emulator by holding 1 key.