Battery status indicator for wireless keyboard - El Capitan

Nope, battery-operated A1314.

I wasn't aware of the new keyboard. The bottom is designed better than mine, i.e flat.

Well here's something new:

I pressed ⌥ while clicking the Bluetooth icon again, and this time a bigger window with more information appeared...but still no battery indicator.

The wireless keyboard battery status is greyed (grayed) out and always shows 100 per cent, which I'm sue is not accurate. Turning off Bluetooth and repairing the device did not fix the problem. What 's the fix?

The wireless keyboard battery status is greyed (grayed) out and always shows 100 per cent, which I'm sue is not accurate. Turning off Bluetooth and repairing the device did not fix the problem. What 's the fix?

The wireless keyboard battery status is greyed (grayed) out and always shows 100 per cent, which I'm sure is not accurate. Turning off Bluetooth and re-pairing the device did not fix the problem. What 's the fix?

I Noticed today, that since the update all the battery levels are again showing in preferences.

Not sure what you have going on.

It's still nice to know how much power is left.

I need to charge my spare batteries before my keyboard completely loses power. I don't do it ahead of time anymore because they lose power quickly while sitting, so when I put 'em in they're already down to 60%.

As soon as I see a notification that my keyboard power is very low, I plug in my charger and juice up the spares.

That takes about half a day and my keyboard always lasts that long.

I use my keyboard a lot and have to swap batteries every week.

I called AppleCare Support yesterday about this issue and another, and hope to have an answer sometime this week.

I expect the usual "you need to reinstall the OS," even though it's been this way since day one of a fresh install on a new computer.

That seems to be the standard recommendation for almost any issue.

Much easier to suggest the extreme measure than to actually diagnose the real problem, right Apple? 👿

chuckefus wrote:

Seems like a lot of warning.

It's only a lot of warning if there's a functioning indicator to give you that warning.

But if we all had one of those this discussion wouldn't exist now, would it?

I'm not sure what your message was meant to convey, it doesn't add anything to the discussion as far as I can tell.

As I said, I use my keyboard (and mouse) a lot - usually more than 12 hours a day, so of course mine will need its batteries changed more often.

The mouse is rechargeable and needs it daily, but it has its own power indicator.

So did you just reply to argue about how frequently my batteries should need changing?

I have discovered how to "solve" the problem with the wireless keyboard battery status indicator. I noticed a lot of impatience with my post(s) and questions. This forum of "geniuses" not friendly to Mac rookies. Sorry I bothered everyone. I'll be more cautious about exposing my ignorance, should another occasion arise when I am tempted to ask questions.

I don't see any indication here that you've "bothered" anyone.

In fact I only see one brief reply to you except for mine on 1-17 which I just noticed was mistakenly posted as a reply to you.

You do realize that my reply yesterday wasn't to you, but to chuckefus?

The arrangement of posts here can be a bit confusing, gotta look for who it's responding to - "in response to chuckefus, "in response to terence169" etc.

It seems no one has an answer for you if none of the suggestions helped.

Didn't work for me either, I'm still waiting to here back from Apple - I sent screenshots to go along with my AppleCare support issue.

This issue and a Console issue have plagued my computer since it was new a month ago, so it's not something I caused.

It's kinda hit and miss here, sometimes you get lucky and someone can help, other times there may be 10 pages of replies and a solution still hasn't been found.

Same goes for Applecare Support - sometimes you get a rep who knows what they're talking about, often you get one who doesn't.

I won't even waste my time talking to the junior reps who answer the phones anymore - I ask for a Senior Advisor and sometimes even then I know more than they do. I usually ask how long they've been a S.A, because ones that were just promoted from Junior Advisor aren't much better than the ones still answering the phones.

But the keyboard indicator is gone after OS X 10.11.3!!!

I had both keyboard and mouse indicators on 10.11.2, but after upgraded to 10.11.3 only mouse indicator remains.

Any idea, anyone? Thanks.

Which computer are you using?

Just wondering if some models are affected while others are not.