Keyboard working intermittantly with my new Mac Mini M4

[MacBiter]

One other suggestion (based on my own experience!) - if you have a basic virtually empty user account that doesn't need a password, then you can get in to that one with a mouse click, then use the mouse with the Bluetooth System Preference and see if the keyboard is recognised when you switch it off and back on again.

 

[RuthxD]

One other suggestion (based on my own experience!) - if you have a basic virtually empty user account that doesn't need a password, then you can get in to that one with a mouse click, then use the mouse with the Bluetooth System Preference and see if the keyboard is recognised when you switch it off and back on again.

Like the guest account? that's such an excellent suggestion; given this may occur on some of other macs, I need to add that to my build notes, I hadn't bothered turning guest on but that would have saved me on Friday when I was just stuck - thank you.

 

[MacInWin]

Guest doesn't have Admin privileges. Create a new user, with Admin privileges, on each machine. Use that as the account for YOU, or a tech staff, when you need a "clean" account to test with. IMHO, every Mac should have a "clean" account on it.

 

[Rod]

Deleting keyboard preferences worked recently for another OP so that may be the answer.

 

[MacBiter]

Guest doesn't have Admin privileges. Create a new user, with Admin privileges, on each machine. Use that as the account for YOU, or a tech staff, when you need a "clean" account to test with. IMHO, every Mac should have a "clean" account on it.

If it’s just to launch System Preferences / Settings, you don't need Admin privileges, though you would of course to delete .plist files.

 

[MacInWin]

However, in general it is a good thing to have a clean Admin account on a Mac just in case the "regular" account(s) get mucked up, or some rogue action makes the regular account(s) act strangely. Guest is a useless account for anything serious.

 

[MacBiter]

Guest is a useless account for anything serious.

Especially when you consider everything gets deleted as soon as the guest logs out.