I have two older Apple keyboards that up worked until Monterey 12.5

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I have two older Apple keyboards that up worked until Monterey 12.5

I have two older Apple keyboards that up worked perfectly until I installed the most recent Monterey 12.5 on my Mac Mini and Macbook Pro 2019. Now neither Mac will recognize the older keyboard (three battery) and it takes multiple steps to get either mac to automatically recognize the newer of the two (two battery). Is this Apple's planned obsolescence policy to get me to buy a new keyboard or am I missing a trick?

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MacBook Pro 13″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Jul 29, 2022 9:30 AM

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dialabrain

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Jul 29, 2022 9:43 AM in response to dshurst

It not some nefarious plan of Apple. I still have a two battery Apple Wireless Keyboard and it connects to my M1 MacBook Air just fine. It took some seconds before a dialog window opened with a 4-digit code I had to type on the keyboard. That's the only "trick" I saw.

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dialabrain

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Jul 29, 2022 9:55 AM in response to dshurst

I guess I should add, make sure the batteries are good and you turn on the keyboards by pressing the silver button on the side of the keyboard opposite the battery compartment, until the green light appears.

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dshurst Author

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Jul 29, 2022 2:29 PM in response to dshurst

Well now neither keyboard workS on either Mac. Next I’ll try going back to 12.4 as 12.5 is where things borked.

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dshurst Author

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Jul 29, 2022 10:53 AM in response to dialabrain

Thanks for the response. New batteries and green lights…duh. What I did do was trash the Bluetooth.plist and restarted. That seemed to fix the MacBook Pro. I’ll try the Mini later. Much appreciated.

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dialabrain

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Jul 29, 2022 11:01 AM in response to dshurst

dshurst wrote:

Thanks for the response. New batteries and green lights…duh.

Welcome. One never knows. 😎

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