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Which devices Tenon supports today.

Tenon is in development and not yet released. Here's where each model, Bluetooth radio, and Windows version stands today; the list grows as the beta validates more hardware.

What “Working” means right now: validated on our development machine — Windows 10 Pro 22H2 (x64) with onboard Intel Bluetooth — and nothing here has been through a beta cohort yet. When testers on other hardware confirm a row, we say so; until then, treat “Working” as “works on one known-good PC”.

Both Bluetooth and USB / wired (through a dock or Studio Display) are covered for the trackpad and keyboard. The Magic Mouse is Bluetooth-only; it can't be used while plugged in.

Magic Mouse

  • Working Magic Mouse (USB-C, 2024) Smooth scroll, clicks, and surface gestures — validated.
  • Planned Magic Mouse 2 (Lightning) Shares the 2024 model’s protocol; expected to follow, not yet validated.
  • Not yet supported Magic Mouse (1st gen)

Magic Trackpad

  • Working Magic Trackpad (USB-C, 2024) Our own gesture engine — full multi-finger gestures, tap, scroll, and force-click.
  • Planned Magic Trackpad 2 (Lightning)
  • Not yet supported Magic Trackpad (1st gen)

Magic Keyboard

The Touch ID button is mappable (e.g. tap to lock); biometric sign-in is out of scope — Apple binds it to the Mac’s Secure Enclave. Keyboard battery is read over USB only: over Bluetooth the Magic Keyboard exposes no battery property for Windows to read.

  • Working Magic Keyboard (USB-C, 2024 — with or without Touch ID, with or without numpad) Media & function keys, Cmd↔Ctrl/Alt remap, and battery over USB.
  • Not validated Magic Keyboard (Lightning, including Touch ID models) A different USB product ID, so it does not bind yet. Expected to follow; the beta decides.
  • Not validated Non-US keyboard layouts Touch ID and numpad differ in report layout, not product ID — but no non-US layout has been tested.

AirPods

Battery levels only. Tenon reads the charge over Bluetooth LE and shows it in the app — it does not add ear-detection auto-pause, tap or stem controls, or automatic device switching. Those are held in Apple firmware or need Bluetooth access Windows does not expose to applications, so they are not on the roadmap.

  • Working AirPods Pro 2 Battery levels shown in-app.
  • Working AirPods Max (USB-C) Battery shown in-app.
  • Planned AirPods Pro (1st / 3rd gen), AirPods Max (Lightning)

Bluetooth radios

The Magic devices reach your PC through its Bluetooth radio, and the radio matters as much as the device. These are our own results from testing Tenon across chipsets. If pointer movement isn't smooth, the adapter is the usual cause — a ~$15 Intel or Realtek RTL8761B adapter fixes it, and the trackpad and keyboard can also switch to USB or a dock.

  • Working Intel Wireless Bluetooth (built into most Windows laptops) The baseline radio everything here was validated on.
  • Working Realtek RTL8761B (common ~$15 USB adapter) Full pass — pairing, pointer, scroll, gestures, and reconnect.
  • Not recommended Actions ATS2851 (cheap USB dongles) Connects and works, but pointer movement is noticeably laggy. That is the radio, not Tenon.
  • Won't work Broadcom BCM20702 No modern-Windows driver — Windows 10 22H2 will not start it at all, so nothing can use it.
  • Not validated Qualcomm, CSR, MediaTek No results yet. The beta is where these get covered.

Windows versions

Tenon is built and tested on Windows 10 22H2. We are not going to claim Windows 11 before we have run it — validating Windows 11, with Secure Boot and memory integrity on, is one of the things the beta is for.

  • Working Windows 10 22H2 (x64) The development machine. Everything on this page was validated here.
  • Not validated Windows 11 (x64) Same driver model, so support is expected — but Tenon has never been run on Windows 11. Validating it is part of the beta.
  • Not yet supported Windows on ARM, 32-bit Windows The drivers are built x64 only.

What "not validated" and "not yet supported" mean

Tenon only takes over devices it has tested. A model we haven't validated keeps working exactly as it does today on Windows — Tenon stays out of its way and won't break it. As the beta proves Tenon on more generations, radios, and Windows versions, they move up this list. Have hardware that isn't here? Join the beta →

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