![]() At first I thought I could just disconnect the keyboard from the computer:Įxperimentation demonstrated that was insufficient, so instead I needed to click on the “Paired” status on the screen, then click on the “-” sign: Incredible! But it was blocking me progressing with the iPad. Yup, even two offices away it could pair and connect. There I went to System Preferences and choose “Bluetooth”. #Apple bluetooth keyboard batteries stuck mac#To solve the problem, I switched to my Mac Mini, the device that already had paired with the keyboard. Back and forth, frustrating as heck! Why this can’t show “keyboard (paired to another device)” is beyond me, but it doesn’t. Try as I might, I couldn’t get past this point. Sometimes it’d show the keyboard info for long enough to confirm that the keyboard wasn’t completely dead: Why that didn’t affect things when I first paired them, I don’t understand, but unpairing it from the Mac Mini certainly solved the problem. The second issue was that the keyboard was marked as already paired to another device. I thought Bluetooth was supposed to work for about 7-10 feet, so I was pretty amazed. First off, that bluetooth keyboard has a pretty astonishing range, so even two rooms away when I turned it on, it automatically paired with my Mac Mini. I encountered what I believe were two problems. Now figuring that out took quite a bit of work and a fair amount of time on Google, searching for “problems pairing bluetooth keyboard ipad”, for which there are a lot of questions, but not a lot of answers. It worked fine, but when I went back to pair it with my iPad a second time, instead of just turning on and being recognized, the iPad got cranky and didn’t want to pair it as it saw the keyboard was already hooked up to a device. There’s something about the range of Bluetooth or the mechanism by which things pair, because what I did was pair my Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard (which I love!) to my my Mac Mini, then to my wi-fi iPad. Has anyonen got any other suggestions, or seen this problem before? I don't have a usb keyboard to test, so I'm not sure if the screen sharing connection from the macbook is valid (since it's using vnc rather than a keyboard driver).I bumped into the very same problem and it’s a weird one. Leaving the keyboard powered off for 10 minutesĬhecking the keys for any stickyness (ssure this can't be the case anyway as it works fine when paired with the macbook)ĭelete and reinstate the bluetooth pairing with the imac (with reboots in between)Ĭhange language layout from and to British Has anyone got any ideas on what can be going wrong with this? I've tried the following: When I do this, it works fine - no problems at all! Next step - pair the keyboard with my macbook. #Apple bluetooth keyboard batteries stuck software#This suggests that the software is running fine. If I connect to the iMac from my Macbook via screen sharing, I can type normally using the Macbook's keyboard (despite keyboard viewer still showing alt+cmd as pressed). Launching keyboard viewer, this confirms that situation. This led me to believe that the alt and cmd keys are stuck (since alt+cmd+d hides the dock and alt+cmd+esc is for force quit). ![]() When in Finder, pressing esc brings up Force Quit, pressing d hides the dock. In that when I type I'm just getting greek characters. The symptoms I'm getting are identical to this. It has been working fine for over six months, but today the batteries ran done and when I replaced them I'm having some problems. I'm having problems with my iMac's wireless keyboard (small alu model).
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