PSA for Apple fans: It’s time to update your keyboard and trackpad

If you own an Apple keyboard or trackpad, the company might have a surprise for you. Yes, it’s time for another batch of mysterious firmware updates.

As MacRumors analyst Aaron Perris reports, Apple released four updates for various peripherals and accessories this week:

• Firmware version 1.4.84 for 140W USB-C power adapter
• Version 3.1.9 for the Magic Keyboard (USB-C; with and without numeric keypad)
• Version 3.1.9 for the Magic Trackpad (USB-C)
• Version 3.1.8 for Magic Trackpad 2

Perris calls the updates “major,” even capitalizing that word, 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 exciting, and partly because, as is usually the case with Apple’s firmware updates, the company itself hasn’t specified what’s in them.

That’s not to say these updates aren’t worth it. Accessory firmware rarely receives new versions, so these may contain up to a year of important fixes, security updates, and performance tweaks.

Unlike operating system updates, such as iOS 26, accessory firmware updates do not 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.