my wireless keyboard won't stay on long enough to pair with ipad

I had the same problem. Here's how I fixed it. Once the light came on, I started tapping keys on the keyboard. Believe it or not, that got the blinking light to stay on and my keyboard paired. I have been trying to get it to work for an hour before I tried this.

I saw someone made a comment about replying to old threads as nobody referenced them well I do and I had this problem. I knew it wasn't the aluminium foil trick as the power was there pressing the caps lock button ..

It was all to do with Bluetooth pairing .. so I found the solution here -> http://davemeehan.com/technology/how-to-reset-an-apple-wireless-bluetooth-keyboa rd-mouse-or-trackpad

Enjoiy and hopefully it will help others like me who do read old threads when they get an issue...

I had the same problem when I tried to pair it with my iPhone. The green light would only stay on for a second or so but never blink. Once I unpaired the keyboard from my iPad, the green light on the keyboard started to blink and I was able to pair it with my phone.

I have the same problem, but I'm now typing on the bluetooth keyboard even though the System Preference says the keyboard is not found and is searching and the green light is off on my keyboard. ?????????

I'm having the same problem. The light on my keyboard won't stay lit. Have changed to new batteries. It used to work fine and when I opened Bluetooth this morning (I have not used the keyboard in a while) it recognized "Apple Wireless Keyboard". After trying to connect and getting an error message (tried this about a dozen times) I clicked on Forget this Device. Turned off Bluetooth and back on. Sometimes it will pull up "Keyboard" but not Apple Wireless keyboard as in the past and which is what shows on my iphone (it connects automatically). Then I thought maybe the iPhone Bluetooth was interfering with the keyboard connecting so I turned it off on the iPhone. Same issue. Shows keyboard as discoverable but will not connect. I have the ipad3 and my keyboard is only 3 or 4 months old.

Amazingly, this worked for me too, even though the light never went on or stayed on for more than a few seconds. But long enough to pair and prompt a code, which worked. Up until that moment I couldn't get it to pair at all (even after inserting tinfoil into the battery chamber as suggested), so I guess stabbing away at the keys works, oddly.

The link suggestion worked perfectly for me. My kb light turned on for 2 sec but not blinking, so Apple TV couldn't discover the kb, but pressing the power button the whole process as suggested on the link worked for me. THANKS

Hello:

Please explain what you mean by

my wireless keyboard will not stay on long enough to be recognized with my ipad to pair it.

Do you mean it shuts itself off, or something else?

Barry

Hello:

The green light does not stay on.

Have you deleted it from the Macbook before trying to attach it to your other system? Bluetooth devices may only pair with one thing at a time.

Barry