I use an old iMac from 2014. I don't know what system I use. I got a new Magic Keyboard, I logged out the old keyboard and turned the Imac off, now I can't type my password to enter my Imac. The keyboards don't work and I can't click ok anything on the screen either. Only the mouse works. How do I type my password without keyboards?
Connect the new keyboard to the Mac with the charging cable that came with it. It will now behave as a wired USB keyboard.
Connect the new keyboard to the Mac with the charging cable that came with it. It will now behave as a wired USB keyboard.
According to Apple Store descriptions,
So the only current one that the OP would want for a Mac with Bluetooth and High Sierra would be the
The others are, at least officially, incompatible.
MacTracker reports that there is an older version of the plain Magic Keyboard (no numeric keypad, no Touch ID) which is compatible with Macs running OS X v10.11 (El Capitan) or later. Apple sold it between October 2015 and May 2021. It has model number A1644, as opposed to the current one ("Magic Keyboard with Lock Key"), which has model number A2450.
No it likely will not work, you did not pay attention to the System Requirements when you were ordering it, they say:
System Requirements
Mac with Apple silicon using macOS 11.4 or later
no sir the keyboard doesn't connect even with the cable. It spams randomly some letters. I use a Late 2012 Imac with High Sierra on it. The Keyboard is incompatible with older Imac's. This company isn't what it used to be.
No. Late 2012 iMacs can't run anything higher than Catalina. You can't upgrade them far enough to make the "plain" Magic Keyboard (model A2450) work.
Your choices would seem to be:
Okay, I use High Sierra on a Late 2012 iMac. If I update my programme, will the new Magic Keyboard work?
I use an old iMac 2014, got a new keyboard. I logged out the old keyboard and now I cann't type my password to enter my Imac.
