Apple Wireless Keyboard will not become discoverable--solution

I add my thanks to everyone else's. Your situation gave me the hint I needed. In my case, I had my iPad with me, and it had picked up the iPad and paired with it. So, no matter what, couldn't get it to pair with computer. Saw your note, and it got me thinking. Turned off Bluetooth on iPad, and bingo. Thanks again.

I had this trouble. I tried the walking beyond range, which allowed the keyboard to become discoverable (flashing light), but as soon as I came back into range, it stopped. The easiest for me was to do this:

1. Open Bluetooth Preferences (Opening System Preferences or clicking the bluetooth icon top of your screen).
2. Highlight your keyboard in the list of devices and delete it. (It will ask you if you want to delete. Press delete).
3. Hold down the power button on the keyboard until the green led flashes continuously. Continue to hold the button down – KEEP THE BUTTON HELD DOWN DURING THE PAIRING PROCESS
4. In the Bluetooth Preferences window, the keyboard shows up as an unpaired device. AS YOU CONTINUE TO HOLD DOWN THE KEYBOARD POWER BUTTON, type in the pairing code indicated.
5. After the keyboard shows up under Devices as connected, you can let go the power button.

Worked for me. Maybe need to do a "clean re-pair" to solve this? (Like rebooting your device when you are having trouble....)

Worked for me, I thought my kb had died, then went downstairs and was able to get the led to flash!

Thanks

Just a quick note. I had an old keyboard I wanted to pair with new macbook air. Tried everything above, but no dice. Once, for a few seconds, in another room, I got the green light to pulse. By the time I returned to the room with the macbook it had stopped and would not pair.

Finally, I took both the macbook air AND the keyboard into the other room, shut the doors, and voila! Thanks for your help!

Thanks for your great insight! I had the same problem too and knew my keyboard somehow thought it was connected to my laptop because the caps lock key lit when I pressed it, I could not however manage to get the keyboard to "discoverable" mode simply by changing rooms (I live in a big home and went all the way to the end of the house). Other people have suggested that they had to leave the block in order to trick their keyboard, so I thought of a simplest solution: I turned my laptop off and pressed the power button on the keyboard. Voila! Everything worked as a charm, and didn't even need to leave the room! :-) Hope this helps others!

Slightly different situation in that my keyboard stopped working, changed the batteries, all the usual stuff and then I tried rebooting my Mac to see if that would do the trick. Of course it then reopened and I couldn't type in my password!!!

Anyway, found your advice using my phone (thought it wouldn't work) but walked out of the room with the keyboard anyway. (It's never been paired with any other computer or thing), walked back in the room and within 20 seconds the keyboard had been found. I was gobsmacked.

However, thank you.

OMG George! I was ready to toss my Apple Bluetooth keyboard into a river of molten lava until I read you post suggesting to go walk-about with the keyboard. SUCCESS! Bless you and all your progeny. 🙂

Problem solved. Worked immediately ! Thank you.

Well now I just feel like an idiot!! Thanks so much for your prompt reply!!!!

This just worked perfectly for me. Tha

Thank you very much George : your procedure solved my problem (and the explanation of it is quite interesting).

Jean

I have struggled with this issue on my computer for quite some time. This answer resolved the problem first try! Thank you!