Q: Wireless keyboard won't connect

worked! thanks.

hal

This solution works great to re-pair my keyboard and trackpad, but I have to do it every morning when I come into the office, which is a huge pain. Has anyone had the issue of a keyboard and trackpad needing to be reset on a near daily basis after taking your laptop out of the building? I'm at my wits' end.

The answer is easy - Log into the guest account and put new keyboard in discovery mode. Enter number that is shown once discovered and hey presto wireless key board paired.

It has taken nearly a whole day to resolve the issue I had with my Bluetooth keyboard failing to reconnect with my Macbook Pro. Although the Mac could see the keyboard it resolutely refused to pair with it. Eventually I turned everything in the house off, the wifi network and all other devices including my Magic Mouse that might be filling it with spurious radio waves and hey presto it connected first time.

I figure it is all down to interference and lack of signal strength.

Thanks TM! Worked perfectly...

Thank you so much!

i can't do this because i am stuck at the log in page and when ever i change the batteries, it says 1 found but after 5 seconds it just goes back to attempting to find keyboard.

i do have another apple keyboard but the "8ik," don't work and my password starts with an "I"

please help this problem

THANK YOU SOOOO MUCH for the help!!! I was going crazy trying to pair the keyboard to my iMac. Thanks to you I was able to

Sometimes there may be an even simpler solution:

Locate the Power Button on your computer (it may be on the back of the machine).

Depress the Power Button for at least 10 seconds until the machine is off.

Wait 30 seconds.

Depress the Power Button again for about two seconds, until the machine turns back on.

Make sure your keyboard is turned on.

Wait for the Apple icon on the screen to appear and pass. The screen may display a message that says that the Keyboard is not recognized or not found.

Wait for directions to appear on the screen that guide you to an easy setup, simply by having you type in a displayed code and hitting the return button.

Voila! You're back in business.

-danaverse

If anyone is still reading this, I had the same problem. Keyboard refused to connect to macbook no matter how many times I took out batteries, restarted, cried, begged, pleaded. Turns out, the keyboard was pairing to my ipad in the other room. Turned off the ipad bluetooth, no more issues.

You're awesome for posting this.

I was having problems pairing my keyboard with my iPad.

My keyboard (apple) would not go into discovery mode, the green light would not blink on and off. It would go on and then turn off.

Pressing and HOLDING that right side button on the Keyboard did the trick to enable my iPad to "see" (discover) it.

I'd give you the points if I could.      Here's a thumbs up instead!

Worked really well even with some changes on the OS.

Thanks a lot, TM100!

But how do you get past the login screen to get to your preferences? The keyboard isn't paired so you can't enter your password and login.

In my case, I was on a MacBook. So I just used the MacBook keyboard.

If you are on an iMac or similar, just plug in a wired keyboard.

Fantastic! MANY Thanks

Clear, thoughtful and reassuring all through the process. This is the way God intended instructions to be written.

You gave me the gift of three extra hours of sleep tonight.  (Yes, I would have stayed with the problem well past midnight.)

Thanks again.

--GG