2021/07/10

Mac Bluetooth keyboard sluggish - and/or repeats?

Symptoms
  • Press a key – no response.
    • Or a several-second time lag, before any output.
  • Press a key (even briefly / lightly) and several characters are output.

When observed
  • After some time (hours to days).
  • Usually, when the screen is locked or asleep
    • Which makes entering the password, functionally impossible.

Equipment
  • MacBook Air (M1, 2020)
  • Apple Magic Keyboard (on Bluetooth)
  • macOS Big Sur (V11.4 (20F71))

Workaround
  1. Hold Shift and Option, then click the Bluetooth icon in the menubar.
    • Yes; challenging when having KB trouble. 😕
      • Though at least possible, since these are keys meant to be held down.
      • If even this doesn't work, hopefully you have a wired KB handy…
  2. Select "Reset the Bluetooth module".
    • Hmm; maybe this is possible to trigger with no KB use…
  3. There is no step three 😏
Shoutout to the good folks at OSXDaily.

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