Turn off touchpad on Apple Magic Keyboard

How do I turn off the touchpad on the Apple Magic Keyboard? It is too easy to hit the keyboard while typing and I have lost some important information from files that took a lot of work to retrieve.

iPad Pro (M5, 2025)

Posted on Nov 2, 2025 5:59 PM

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Nov 2, 2025 6:40 PM in response to crusormed254

How do I turn off the touchpad on the Apple Magic Keyboard? It is too easy to hit the keyboard while typing and I have lost some important information from files that took a lot of work to retrieve some of the data. The inability to turn it on and off was not mentioned before I bought it.


This started out being just annoying, but this losing data has really caused me to look for a workaround.


I believe when I set up the keyboard I was asked if I wanted to turn on the touchpad, but once it got installed and caused problems there was no going back. Please help!

Turn off touchpad on Apple Magic Keyboard

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