If you’ve got an Apple keyboard or trackpad, the company may have a surprise in store for you. Yes, it’s time for another batch of mysterious firmware updates.
As reported by MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris, Apple this week released four updates for various peripherals and accessories:
- Firmware version 1.4.84 for the 140W USB-C Power Adapter
- Version 3.1.9 for the Magic Keyboard (USB-C; both with and without numeric keypad)
- Version 3.1.9 for the Magic Trackpad (USB-C)
- Version 3.1.8 for the Magic Trackpad 2
Perris refers to the updates as “major,” even putting this word in capitals, but you can take that with a healthy dose of sarcasm. Partly because software updates for keyboards and trackpads (let alone a power adapter) can hardly be thrilling, and partly because, as is usually the case with Apple’s firmware updates, the company itself hasn’t said what they contain.
That isn’t to say that these updates aren’t worth having. Accessory firmware rarely gets new versions, so these could contain as much as a year’s worth of important fixes, security updates, and performance tweaks.
Unlike operating system updates, such as iOS 26, accessory firmware updates don’t need to be actively installed by the user. The next time your keyboard, trackpad, or power adapter is connected to a device running one of Apple’s operating systems, it should update automatically.
Author: David Price, Editor, Macworld
David has been writing about technology for well over two decades, and got on board the Apple hype train when covering the original iPhone launch in 2007. He is an enthusiastic Apple Watch evangelist and feels that the HomePod is misunderstood.