Any tips on using magic keyboard and trackpad with multiple devices? Turning off bluetooth is so annoying. Posted by 3 years ago. An unofficial community to discuss Apple devices and software, including news, rumors, opinions and analysis pertaining to the company located at One Apple Park Way. Apple has said that the Magic Mouse 2 (along with the Magic Trackpad 2 and the Magic Keyboard) are fast-charging devices; the mouse can get nine hours’ worth of battery life in about two minutes.
We have two MacBook Airs running El Capitan 10.11.3. We have setup an office environment for a docking/clamshell configuration with an external monitor, Magic Mouse 2, and a Magic Keyboard. As one of us needs to use this office setup, we dock the MacBook and proceed to use the Magic Mouse 2 and Magic Keyboard. However, each time a MacBook is swapped, we have to re-pair the mouse and keyboard using the Lightning connector because the swapped system throws a 'Connection Unsuccessful. Please pair this device again.' error.
Are these two peripherals unable to maintain pairing configurations to multiple Macs? I've read multiple write-ups on this site describing how to pair to multiple Macs using the Wireless Keyboard and Magic Mouse. It would be pretty disappointing if this feature was discarded. In fact, we'll return these peripherals if that's the case. We understand the devices will not connect concurrently to two Macs, and it would be nice if we didn't have to re-pair the devices via lightning connector each time we swapped the laptop being used in the office,