Yup, even two offices away it could pair and connect. There I went to System Preferences and choose “Bluetooth”. To solve the problem, I switched to my Mac Mini, the device that already had paired with the keyboard. Back and forth, frustrating as heck! Why this can’t show “keyboard (paired to another device)” is beyond me, but it doesn’t. Try as I might, I couldn’t get past this point. Sometimes it’d show the keyboard info for long enough to confirm that the keyboard wasn’t completely dead: Why that didn’t affect things when I first paired them, I don’t understand, but unpairing it from the Mac Mini certainly solved the problem. The second issue was that the keyboard was marked as already paired to another device.
#WIRELESS KEYBOARD FOR IMAC AND IPAD BLUETOOTH#
I thought Bluetooth was supposed to work for about 7-10 feet, so I was pretty amazed. First off, that bluetooth keyboard has a pretty astonishing range, so even two rooms away when I turned it on, it automatically paired with my Mac Mini. I encountered what I believe were two problems. Now figuring that out took quite a bit of work and a fair amount of time on Google, searching for “problems pairing bluetooth keyboard ipad”, for which there are a lot of questions, but not a lot of answers. It worked fine, but when I went back to pair it with my iPad a second time, instead of just turning on and being recognized, the iPad got cranky and didn’t want to pair it as it saw the keyboard was already hooked up to a device. There’s something about the range of Bluetooth or the mechanism by which things pair, because what I did was pair my Apple wireless bluetooth keyboard (which I love!) to my my Mac Mini, then to my wi-fi iPad. I bumped into the very same problem and it’s a weird one.
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