iPhones were small and elegant, not the of Android shape of today - an overused bar of soap. I remember a time when Mac Pro's had tons of expansion capabilities and Mac Book Pros had great graphics. It was a cheap charlatan's trick.Īpple sure has changed recently. Apple's crappy drivers were designed to paint Windows in the palest light possible. And after using Boot Camp for years, I can tell you they don't work too well in Boot Camp either. Apple doesn't support these devices outside of Boot Camp. There are still people buying Apple devices for use with Windows and I want Google searches to find this page. To be more specific, in Device Manager, under Bluetooth there is 'Apple Wireless Keyboard' but under Keyboards is 'HID Keyboard Device' which is the default driver Windows appears to be using. I found an install link to the Apple Wireless Keyboard drivers that I believe come with bootcamp and did that but the drivers are now just sitting in Device Manager not doing anything.

I don't know if the problem is being caused on Microsoft's or Apple's end, though I suspect either could fix it easily and make the keyboard work with full functionality on connection without any hassle. It seems pretty sub par that I've payed for a keyboard that really should work fine on Windows but that is missing basic functionality.

Is there some workaround? I'd really really like them to behave completely normally and use the Windows GUI for volume selection and music controls. I'm using Windows 8.1 on an Windows PC, not a Mac, so I don't have access to the Boot Camp drivers.

So it's a pretty commonly known issue that the function keys on the Apple Wireless keyboard don't do a thing in Windows.

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