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PSA: Apple's New USB-C Accessories Require macOS Sequoia, Don't Work Properly With macOS 15.2 Beta

RenegadfeMonste said:
I have a 16" M3 MacBook Pro for both my personal Mac and my work provided one.

My work Mac is still on macOS Sonoma and likely will not be allowed / blocked from updating to macOS Sequoia for another 6 months yet by IT.

In addition to all the issues already being mentioned here, I can't get the Magic Keyboard to connect via Bluetooth to my work MacBook Pro on Sonoma. It only works while connected by the USB-C cable.

Anyone else running into this same issue?

I want to make sure there isn't any issue with bluetooth with this keyboard, but I can't test on my personal Mac because it's on the 15.2 beta and I'm seeing the same issues there! lol
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For anyone else having the issue where you can't get your Magic Keyboard or Magic Mouse to pair on Sonoma or 15.2 Beta here is an update.

I found that simply connecting the Keyboard or mouse by the USB-C cable doesn't trigger an automatic pair. You need to go into bluetooth settings and search for the device and manually pair it. Note, that your Magic Keyboard and Magic Mouse may not show up. This happened to me, but if you turn the power slider on the keyboard/mouse off, and then back on your accessory should then show to pair.

Even though the bluetooth discovery name shows as Magic Keyboard or Magic Mouse, they pair like a generic accessory and not as an Apple Magic Keyboard or Mouse. You may have to go through the sequence of pressing keys highlighted on the screen to identify the keyboard language as well, I did.

And yes, the issues with the function keys not working, Touch ID not working, and scrolling not working on the Apple Mouse will still exist.
 
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Well, this is annoying. I bought a Lightening magic trackpad for work about 2 weeks ago and returned it for a USB C version this weekend. My work laptop is an Ubuntu machine and the old trackpad worked great with it (gestures and all). The new one needed a MacOS update on my personal machine (as seen in this thread) but gestures/scrolling are useless on my Ubuntu work machine since there's no software support for it. Annoying that just a port change made this thing incompatible with other OS as it was great before.

Linux update: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Apple-Magic-Trackpad Looks like the only change was a new device ID for the new hardware and it needed to be registered with the existing driver.
 
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Hopefully an update for Sonoma will follow shortly.

Would love to get my new accessories working with my work MacBook Pro, which corporate doesn't allow to be upgraded to the new OS until at least the 15.3.x build.
 
EricaV said:
My battery powered Magic Mouse is still the best one I’ve ever had.
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Really? I had several of them and they all eventually became unreliable due to connection slowly failing between the battery and the mouse. Mouse would randomly disconnect due to lost power, you’d open it up and wiggle the battery around which would fix it for a while, but the issue gradually got worse over time.

The Lightning version had no such issues and also generally had better/faster Bluetooth. No delay on reconnecting when waking up etc.

I still love my Apple AA battery charger that came out with those mice, though. Works great with modern Enerloop batteries!
 
Same problem, Magic Trackpad USB-C is not working correctly on Ventura 13.7.2.

It's frustrating as even Linux got a patch to get it to work. All it takes is adding the device ID (0x0324) to the trackpad driver:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-2024-Apple-Magic-Trackpad
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20241110002816.6064-1-callahankovacs@gmail.com/T/
https://github.com/mr-cal/Linux-Magic-Trackpad-2-USB-C-Driver

Apple just needs to release an updated driver. It's something Apple has done before: Download Magic Trackpad and Multi-Touch Trackpad Update 1.0 - Apple Support (SG)
 
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