Can't get iMac to discover wireless keyboard

Apple Wireless Keyboard: Difficulty during pairing process

Troubleshooting wireless mouse and keyboard issues

Pairing your Apple Wireless Keyboard with another Mac

the mac wil not even find the apple wirelesss keyboard. It does find my daughters plastic keyboard which I am now using

I know this is an old post but I had a very similar problem and I thought I'd post the solution I found for anyone else who may benefit from it.

My Problem was:

My iMac couldn't find my keyboard (after a restart) even though it was working earlier in the same day. Changing batteries did not help.

Solution for my case:

Unplugged the Apple TV since I discovered it was picking up the keyboard signal and trying to pair with it. Popular keyboard, eh?

Hi Zambros:

This was excellent advice! I shut off the bluetooth application on the Apple TV and voila! my keyboard worked just fine. Thanks.

--Gerhud

If you have a power cut or turn off your Mac and have Bluetooth turned on in your iPad, you will have the same problem. Go into settings on your iPad and turn off Bluetooth and your keyboard will come back. It took hours to work this one out! This is with Lion. Hopefully they have sorted this bug by now in Mavericks.

Thanks, my issue wasn't an Apple TV but an iPad that had bluetooth turned on.

You are awesome Thanks so much!!

My issue was an iPad too. Was so weird because initially it was the mouse that stopped working and then after a restart I couldn't login because I had no keyboard. Had to login as a guest to set up a usb keyboard and then google the problem.

Thanks. Unplugged Apple TV and keyboard re-found

Ridiculous!!!