Apple Wireless Keyboard Eating Batteries

Sign me up to the Battery issue. Its pathetic, Apple have completely dropped the bundle on this one. I wont be buying another apple peripheral after this. They may have good design, but their driver support and backup is obviously pretty poor. For them to be boasting about being green is an absolute joke. I have gone through enough battery acid in the last month to kill an army. NOT HAPPY AT ALL.

Add me to the list. I thought I was going crazy since I used to go months without changing batteries!

I am also using a Magic Mouse.

Here to!!. Started eating up my batteries fast . I did purchase a magic mouse too. I didn't realise it had to do with this issue since I got to this thread. I really don't think this is the way to go Apple !! I already had a very bad experience with my time Capsule (dying after 14 month). I'm ok to pay over the market price but for heaven's sake I want to get decent and reliable harware for my euros !!!

I've seen exactly the same. Upgrade to 10.6.2 and Magic Mouse at the same time. My wireless keyboards that used to have a 6 month or so battery life, now chew through 3 Duracell's in about a week.
I've tried two different keyboards, both had the same issue (both small aluminium, 3 battery versions).

<sigh> Add me to the list. I'm going through a set of batteries about every 10 to 14 days since moving to the Magic Mouse.</sigh>

Larry

Just posting back an update on the new keyboard I got yesterday. As mentioned in my previous post, I went to the local Apple Store, they swapped my keyboard out for a brand new one. I left it up and running overnight, which typically would have drained the batteries a good bit, and the battery level so far is still at 100%. I don't know what is different, but something obviously is. Will continue to update on changes. So far though, it looks as if having the new keyboard may have fixed it for me.

Hi, I'm having the same problem. Since installing the Magic Mouse, my Apple Wireless Keyboard has been eating up batteries like there was no tomorrow. It used to take months before I had to replace them. Now it takes less than two weeks!

So its great to see that Apple is not actually helping with the issue at all, or even aknowledging that it exists. I talked to a solicitor friend today that mentioned it is tantamount to selling a faulty product and that he is going to contact consumer affairs on my behalf. I dont mind companies dropping the ball occasionally, but to not aknowledge that they have is simply not on.

Same problems here. Using wireless keyboard with magic mouse.

My keyboard batteries start fresh at a charge of 70% and drops by 10% a day. One week and they are fully drained.

It's a shame!

Hi everyone!

I have had a wireless keyboard (3 battery model) working flawlessly for about a month until I bought the new mighty mouse. My syster also bought a Magic Mouse and the new wireless keyboard (2 battery model). After a week I had to change the batteries and my syster's batteries are also draining fast. I have snow leopard 10.6.2 installed and she has leopard 10.5.8. The only similarity is the mighty mouse and the new drivers installed so I guess it must be connected with the new drivers that mighty mouse installs when we connect itfor the first time.
After some thoughts, I remembered that it was not the first time that a driver update trough software update didn't work very well. It had happened to me before so I went to the download page (support.apple.com/en_US/downloads/#mice) and manually installed. I cannot say anything for sure because it only passed 6 hours but so far it hadn't decrese even 1%, which is a great improvement when compared to before the update.
If anyone could try it too, so we could gather more information, would be great.

I had a 3 battery wireless keyboard which was fantastic in terms of battery life. I keep a log of usage and was getting around 75-100 days on a set of normal alkaline batteries. Suddenly it dropped to 10 days. On reviewing my data I discovered I changed to the magic mouse from the wireless mighty mouse on 20/11/2009 2 days before my first set of batteries suddenly went flat. I assumed something had gone wrong with the wireless keyboard power saving function so bought a new 2 battery wireless keyboard and so far it has not moved from 100% after 2 days. It certainly looks from this thread like a bug. I am running 10.6.2 on a Mac Pro

Yep, and me as well. I have one of the three battery Apple Wireless keyboards, and I've gone through two sets of batteries since I got my Magic Mouse. This last set lasted me less than a week. Complete garbage. This can presumably be fixed with a firmware update, but Apple needs to get on it. I'm very unhappy about this.

Add me as well. I just replaced my batteries 2 weeks ago and am now sitting at 28%. This definitely happened after an update. FIX THIS APPLE!

** i still love you **

Same issue here. Me and my roomates both have the Bluetooth keyboard bought the magic mouse at the apple store at the same time and have gone through a 12 pack of batteries in the last 30 days. It is ridiculous. Both are the 3 battery keyboards one is a mac mini intel core solo and one is a black MacBook core 2 duo. Both snow leopard and both set up with a magic mouse. FIX THIS PLEASE.

Ok, reporting back again. I reported earlier in this thread that I've had the same problem as everyone else. Now, exactly two weeks ago I simply switched back to using my old Logitech mouse instead of the Magic Mouse and put in fresh batteries in my keyboard at that time. Before, when using the Magic Mouse, my keyboard batteries would have definitely been dead by now (usually only lasted a week). But, now using my Logitech mouse for two weeks, the keyboard is reporting a 77% charge remaining.

So, I say this pretty hard evidence that the issue is with the Magic Mouse.

I think I may now try installing the mouse driver separately and see if that helps as described by the poster a bit earlier in this thread.