Question: Q: Magic Keyboard and Mouse In Windows 10

I have a MacBook Pro and a Windows 10 PC.

I would like to be able to work with Apple magic 2 mouse and Magic (Gry Space) wireless keyboard on the PC using Windows 10.

I have download and install Bootcamp drivers for Windows, but regretfully have been unsucessfull to apply Apple drivers to these Bluetooth devices unders Windos 10.

The drivers for Windows are already made, BUT to use them under Windows 10 the .INF file made by Apple must be well written, accessible, to Windows 10.

As of now, I can use both devices but basic FN keys (sound volume, next/prev) do not work at all. Mouse wheel neither works.

A real Shame. I ask Apple to let us fully access our input devices when using a PC.

MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2017), Windows 10, intel PC using Windows 10 Pro

Posted on Oct 18, 2018 2:15 AM

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Can you confirm the year/model of your Mac?

Oct 19, 2018 5:31 AM

Yes. it’s a MacBook Pro 15″Touchbar of 2017.

I wish to work with the Wireless Magic Keyboard (Grey Space) and Magic 2 mouse on my PC using Windows 10.

I repeat on a PC with Windows 10.

On the MBP with OSX have no problem at all.

Current functionality of these input devices are limited, incomplete, because though the drivers are there the .inf file to use those drivers in Windows 10 does not work. At least thats the conclusion I have arrived at.

Oct 19, 2018 2:19 PM

In Windows Device Manager, do you see any unknown devices?

Oct 19, 2018 3:32 PM

The keyboard works (Bluetooth devices: AppleMagic connected) for typing, but FN keys for Previous/Next or Volume up/down do not work. The Magic mouse 2, works with left and right button, BUT there is no Scrolling and even less side swipe gestures.

No, everything is ok in Device Manager:

Under Keyboards I have: HID Keyboard Device

In Device Properties>General Tab: Keyboards (StandardKeyboards) on BluetoothHID Device

> Driver Tab: Microsoft 6/21/2006 10.0 18262 1000

Now, if I click on Update Driver says: The best drivers for your device are already installed.

If I click below now: Search for Updated drivers on Windows Update: My Windows 10 is Windows 10 Insider Preview 18262.1000 (rs_prerelease).

Therefore I go back to Update Driver, and choose Browse my Computer for drivers software, I choose a folder where I have uncompressed: AppleKeyboardInstaller64.exe from Bootcamp (5.1.5722*), which includes: KeyMagic.sys and KeyMagic64.inf among other files. I understand the .sys is the main driver file, while the .inf is the requested info file for instllating devices in Windows.

When I click Next, a window appears telling The best drivers for your device are already installed.

Moving back again to: Let me pick from a list of available drivers in my computer > Select the device driver you want to install for this hardware. I click the button: Have Disk, and move to the folder where the KeyMagic64.inf is.

An small window finally says:

The folder you specified doesn’t contain compatible software . make sure it is designed to work with Windows for x64-based system.

The question, if the driver (already) exist there is some way to make it discoverable and install it on a PC using Windows 10, ¿or purposedly it is non allowed?

The problem trying to install

(*) Does a later Bootcamp version contains drivers compatible and installable in Windows 10 on a PC?

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2. How can I get the multimedia keys to work?

See paragraph Multimedia Keys above.

3. When running in the default fn-ctrl swap mode, the ctrl-lshift-t combination commonly used to reopen a closed browser tab in Chrome does not work.

This is an issue of the Apple keyboard hardware rather than the driver. You can use the ctrl-rshift-t combination instead.

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