- All right, I finally got in
the brand new, redesigned, 24-inch, 2021 iMac.
And it's right here.
And I'll get into that a lot more
in the next couple of days and couple of weeks.
But really, on this first video about the brand new iMac,
I wanted to focus on the brand new keyboard.
Yes, the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID.
I wanted to know
how does it work with the brand new iMac,
but also can I pair it to another Mac?
Hey, I'm Jerry.
And it's been a long time coming
to get these new iMac designs.
Love 'em or hate 'em,
and a lot of people do both,
they're here, finally.
So now we can take a look at them,
play with them and see what they have to offer.
But the new Magic Keyboard that comes with the new iMac
has Touch ID for the very first time.
And there's a couple of other changes,
so let's go ahead and walk through those real quick.
First off, you'll notice that at the corners
there are actually rounded buttons
for the Escape key, the Touch ID key, the Right Arrow key,
and the Function key at the bottom left.
There's also the brand new keys
that have been coming on the new MacBooks lately,
including the Search button, the Dictation button,
and, of course, the Do Not Disturb button.
I'll tell you what, that Do Not Disturb button is fantastic.
I use it on my MacBook Pro all the time.
In fact, my MacBook Pro pretty much stays in
Do Not Disturb mode all the time,
because I don't like all of the notifications
from the Finder when I connect and disconnect drives.
It just fills up and it's just constantly bugging me.
So I just leave Do Not Disturb on
on my Mac pretty much all the time now.
And then of course, all the way at the top right,
there is that brand new Touch ID key.
Now this is actually a button and the Touch ID sensor.
And we'll get to that in just a moment.
Now when you first go through that process
of setting up the brand new iMac,
you do get that Touch ID configuration page
that looks very similar, very familiar,
if you've ever set up Touch ID on a MacBook or MacBook Pro,
or even an iPhone.
First it asks you to raise your finger
up and down, multiple times, to try and get
an idea of the center of your fingerprint.
Then after a moment
it asks you to register the sides of your fingerprints,
so that no matter how you touch the sensor with your finger
to unlock your Mac, it should register enough
and unlock your Mac for you.
Then of course you can add additional fingerprints,
or change the ones that you have,
by going to system settings,
and then to the Touch ID control panel.
Now the Touch ID key
can actually lock and unlock your iMac for you.
To lock your Mac, you can just simply press down
on the Touch ID key and your screen will lock
and you'll be at the lock screen.
To unlock your Mac,
just rest any of your registered fingers
on the Touch ID sensor, and your Mac will of course unlock.
When you do lock your Mac,
you actually have to press down on the key.
It is a physical button, a physical key on the keyboard
that you have to press down to lock.
Just resting your fingerprint
on there will not lock the Mac.
It will unlock it, but not lock it.
So as you can see here, I could press anywhere on the key,
not touching the fingerprint sensor, and lock the Mac.
The Touch ID sensor, of course, will work
with authenticating anything it normally works with
on another Mac or an iPhone,
like purchases from the App Store,
or purchases using Apple Pay and Apple Wallet.
But what I really wanted to know
is how can I pair this to another Mac?
Apple did say that the new Magic Keyboards with Touch ID
can pair to other Macs, but they must have an M1 chip.
So over on my MacBook Pro,
I go to Bluetooth settings,
and I pair the keyboard,
just like I would with any other Bluetooth keyboard.
After a few seconds, we are paired and good to go.
So now I can go over to the Touch ID settings
and I'm going to add a new fingerprint.
Now it took a little while on the screen
for my MacBook Pro to recognize Touch ID
on the external keyboard.
And so I just kept lifting and lowering my finger
on the Touch ID sensor until it popped up.
Then it asks you to press
the physical power/Touch ID button twice
on the MacBook Pro as some kind of a hardware handshake.
And now the Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
is registered with the MacBook Pro
and I can add my second fingerprint,
just like I would normally.
Now what's nice about this
is that all of the fingerprints, of course,
are stored in the secure enclave on the Mac itself.
So even though I only registered my second fingerprint
on the Magic Keyboard, the external Magic Keyboard,
it also works with my first original index finger
that I had already set up
on the built-in Touch ID on the MacBook Pro.
So I guess that's about it.
That's the brand new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
that comes with the brand new 24-inch iMacs.
It's pretty cool.
I can take or leave the color.
You know, silver works just fine for me.
But it's really nice to be able to have Touch ID
on an external keyboard, whether it's for the Mac,
or whether you can buy one someday without the iMac,
and use it on a MacBook Pro, or a Mac mini without one.
But be sure to let me know what you think
of the brand new Magic Keyboard with Touch ID
that comes with the new iMacs.
If you're interested in the other videos
I'll be making over the next couple of days and weeks
about the new iMacs, or even the iPads,
and even the Apple TV remotes,
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