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Adrian B
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I hadehad the same issue where I could not find Change Keyboard Type in that interface after migrating to new Mac with Big Sur. Not a hardware failure and wanted to force keyboard re-identification.

Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist (as suggested above by JMY1000) and rebooting solved it. After the reboot the system ran the keyboard setup again and I could set the correct type.

I hade the same issue after migrating to new Mac with Big Sur. Not a hardware failure.

Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist (as suggested above by JMY1000) and rebooting solved it. After the reboot the system ran the keyboard setup again and I could set the correct type.

I had the issue where I could not find Change Keyboard Type in that interface after migrating to new Mac with Big Sur and wanted to force keyboard re-identification.

Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist (as suggested above by JMY1000) and rebooting solved it. After the reboot the system ran the keyboard setup again and I could set the correct type.

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Adrian B
Adrian B
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I hade the same issue after migrating to new Mac with Big Sur. Not a hardware failure.

Deleting /Library/Preferences/com.apple.keyboardtype.plist (as suggested above by JMY1000) and rebooting solved it. After the reboot the system ran the keyboard setup again and I could set the correct type.