How to fix Apple Bluetooth Wireless Keyboard (Windows 10)

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The driver situation with Apple Bluetooth wireless keyboards and Windows 10 is horrible, even with the latest BootCamp drivers. Fortunately, a workaround is available, if you're patient.

Pair keyboard once

1. Turn on the keyboard.
2. Press and hold Command + w until the keyboard light begins blinking, indicating the keyboard is ready to pair.
3. Use Windows Bluetooth settings to pair the keyboard, entering the same code (e.g. 123456 Enter) on both internal and external keyboards.

Pairing the keyboard is very trial and error. 9/10 times, Windows will complain that the keyboard is not available for pairing. Just keep trying.

Finally, once the keyboard does pair, Windows will complain with a status Driver error.

Uninstall Apple keyboard driver

1. Launch Device Manager, such as from the Start menu.
2. Identify the offending device, marked by a yellow warning triangle.
3. Remove the device and uninstall the driver.
4. Reboot.

Pair keyboard again

Unpair and re-pair the keyboard, will probably take 20 more attempts.

Verify keyboard connectivity

Once the keyboard has paired, after uninstalling the keyboard driver, you can check whether the keyboard is finally fully connected, by pressing the Command (Start) button, etc.

awesome this worked for me too many thanks folks I was giving up on this great keyboard
When you see keyboard from windows,

Click keyboard and connect
It asks you to put PIN - type 123123 and connect
Windows tries to pair with keyboard....
Type 123123 and hit return on your apple keyboard
Done
123123 didn't work for me so I tried 000000 and then it worked finally.

Thanks so much for this man. I am writing this from my 13-year-!old-wireless Mac keyboard. , connected to my PC. Kudos on finding this!!

I really appreciate all of the contributions, in this thread...thank you! I have Windows 10 Nov/2020 installed on my Surface Pro 3, and the 2012 version of Apple Bluetooth keyboard. Connecting the two, gave me grief for three days. Finally, after trying all of the above suggestions, and even by combining a couple of them... I got the pairing to complete and work! Patience and repetition is the only thing that kept me going. Thank you guys!

@pandyarohan Just would like to give you a thanks! It works for me as well. Lost hours looking for a solution.

The solution by @otabekan is the QUICKEST and most fastest method. I'd been trying out the solution by the OP for HOURS but the mentioned solution did it in only one try.
(Typing from a cool Apple Wireless Keyboard found in the scrap market)

Couldn't connect for hours and tried this method. Worked first time. Thank You!!

Works for me. Remember to unpair and remove the wireless keyboard on the Macintosh side, before attempting to pair on the windows side.

Has anyone been able to get the fn key working under Windows 10?

Has anyone been able to get the fn key working under Windows 10?

@thetoxicnerve I can't install drivers from BC6 for the wireless keyboard (A2450) too. Did you resolve the issue?

Благодарю вас!