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Low Battery Alert on Magic Keyboard and Trackpad

kagharaht

kagharaht

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Hmm I never received low battery alert for Magic Keyboard and Trackpad on iMac M3, Sonoma 14.2.1 has anyone experienced this?
 
Apple has removed this feature which is unfortunate since it was quite useful. I setup a calendar reminder every few weeks which works OK but a low batt reminder would be much better. I believe there are 3rd party apps you can buy to do this.
 
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kagharaht said:
Hmm I never received low battery alert for Magic Keyboard and Trackpad on iMac M3, Sonoma 14.2.1 has anyone experienced this?
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Since I got in trouble with a laptop (several years ago) that showed 10% left and subsequently died
before I could put the right plug in the right socket, I check all mice (mouses?) and keyboards every week.
;JOOP!
 
I have 14.2.1 on a M1 Max and still receive low battery alerts from my magic keyboard. I received one just last week.
 
tommiy said:
I have 14.2.1 on a M1 Max and still receive low battery alerts from my magic keyboard. I received one just last week.
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So maybe it's M2, M3 or another bug in Sonoma for some users and configurations like me then.
 
Feek said:
No they haven't. I had one yesterday for my trackpad and last week for the keyboard.
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There must be a bluetooth setting for this in the system settings, but I can't find it.
What I found is years of arguing about the item in several fora, to no avail ...
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This thread looks like it stopped in February. Anyone have any new updates?
I have a new Macbook Pro and having the same problem not getting a warning for keyboard or trackpad.
The only way you know is when one of them just stops working because the battery is at 0%.
 
KCD1999 said:
This thread looks like it stopped in February. Anyone have any new updates?
I have a new Macbook Pro and having the same problem not getting a warning for keyboard or trackpad.
The only way you know is when one of them just stops working because the battery is at 0%.
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Nothing new, 14.5 does not have any option concerned.
Hope for 15.0?
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I get the warning now when it's 2% left on the Magic Trackpad and Magic Mouse on my wife's M2 MBA. Sonoma 14.5
 
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Where do you see your warnings? I just added Bluetooth to my menu bar and I can now click on the icon and check there, but still trying to figure out how to get it to warn me.
 
KCD1999 said:
Where do you see your warnings? I just added Bluetooth to my menu bar and I can now click on the icon and check there, but still trying to figure out how to get it to warn me.
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It looks like a Banner Kind Alert. It's always when it's 2% left. Same thing on my iMac M3 Apple Trackpad and Keyboard.
 
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kagharaht said:
It looks like a Banner Kind Alert. It's always when it's 2% left. Same thing on my iMac M3 Apple Trackpad and Keyboard.
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There should be a battery or even a Bluetooth Notification but there isn't one. Even on older systems.
We could ask for it .....
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Assuming you have notifications turned on, you should see a banner type notification on your desktop when TrackPad or Keyboard reaches 2% charge. It has been this way since at least Mohave.
 
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