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I interchangably use the magicpad on Apple and Windows and everytime I have to remove from connected devices, forget the device and reconnect for it to work, Can someone help with this ?

Open arvindnarang opened this issue 4 months ago • 1 comments

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I interchangably use the magicpad on Apple and Windows and everytime I have to remove from connected devices, forget the device and reconnect for it to work, Can someone help with this ?

Describe the solution you'd like Ability to run a shortcut/bash everytime I want to switch device.

Describe alternatives you've considered Manual Steps

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arvindnarang avatar Aug 13 '25 06:08 arvindnarang

The Magic Trackpad can only be paired as Bluetooth device to one computer at the time, that's a hardware limitation and part of the general Bluetooth security. So if you exclusively only use wireless Bluetooth connections on both computers, there is no way around this.

However, if you use a wired USB connection on your Windows PC and a wireless Bluetooth connection on your Apple Mac, you don't have this issue. Note, you can not do this the other way around as macOS steals the Bluetooth connection the moment you use a wired USB connection.

The other option is to use wired USB connections on both computers. Hope this helps.

MagicUtilities avatar Aug 15 '25 00:08 MagicUtilities