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Is there any way to use the iPad Pro Magic Keyboard with my MacBook Pro?
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My friend, I offered a solution. It wasn't like I suggested the person buy an laptop.
It’s relevant because you’re asking if you can use an accessory literally meant for the iPad Pro and not the Macbook.
Hey, there could have been a Bluetooth chip inside the magic keyboard for all I knew. And it’s not relevant because I asked about the magic keyboard specifically. I wasn’t asking which keyboards work on a macbook pro, it’s very obvious that Bluetooth keyboards work on the MacBook Pro, you guys are not offering suggestions or solutions you’re just wasting my time. If the answer is no, then the answer is no.
A quick google search of “Apple magic keyboard with track pad specs” would have brought you this link;
If you ‘truly’ need to specifically use this keyboard (cause god forbid Bluetooth apparently) with your Mac your only other option is to use a Remote Desktop app like Jump Desktop and you can switch between your using your MacBook and your iPad. Obviously not side by side like multitasking, though if you actually need it like that, then I guess you’re stuck.
The OP wasn't asking for your "solution". They asked a specific question to which your answer was, in fact, irrelevant.
Nope. It had nothing to do with the question.
There seems to be an English comprehension problem with some poster on this thread.
A quick google search of “Apple magic keyboard with track pad specs” would have brought you this link;
If you ‘truly’ need to specifically use this keyboard (cause god forbid Bluetooth apparently) with your Mac your only other option is to use a Remote Desktop app like Jump Desktop and you can switch between your using your MacBook and your iPad. Obviously not side by side like multitasking, though if you actually need it like that, then I guess you’re stuck.
This.
Drama!
Evidently, not directly, but if your ipad is on it, you could use VNC to portal into the MBP, and control it via the magic keyboard. Can’t remember exactly how to set it up, but a search along the lines of “VNC (whatever version of Mac OS you’re running)” oughta do it, and https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/vnc-viewer-remote-desktop/id352019548 is free and works
Evidently, not directly, but if your ipad is on it, you could use VNC to portal into the MBP, and control it via the magic keyboard. Can’t remember exactly how to set it up, but a search along the lines of “VNC (whatever version of Mac OS you’re running)” oughta do it, and https://apps.apple.com/gb/app/vnc-viewer-remote-desktop/id352019548 is free and works