Q: Apple bluetooth keyboard awakes from sleep with a unentered character string. Why
I have a 18 month old MacBook Pro with and I7 processor, 1 TB of memory, 16 GB of ram, and the Retina display. I am running OS X 10.11.
When my year old Apple bluetooth keyboard awakes from sleep, and I enter a login password, the entry has many more characters than I enter. Sometimes it appears to enter an alternate character set, literally greek, I think. If I use the MacBook's native keyboard everything is fine. After I cycle the power on the bluetooth keyboard and cycle the bluetooth, it is fine until I leave the MacBook unattended in my office and the machine sleeps, then the keyboard awakes and often but not always does not seem to work without cycling power and turning the bluetooth off and on again.
I currently have a jambox, keyboard, trackpad, and magic mouse attached to bluetooth. Everything was working well until I upgraded to El Capitan a month ago. Coincidence?
I welcome suggestions on a more elegant fix than cycling the power. Or is it time for a new keyboard.
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X El Capitan (10.11), apple Bluetooth keyboard issue
Posted on Oct 19, 2015 8:05 PM
