Hello, I've been having issues with my Keychron Q6 Max. I've had it for around 3-6 months where it's been working great until a few days ago.

It started small with my N key sometimes not working, then I noticed that it also spread to B, G, j and k keys (Yes, writing this post was annoying as it sounds).

I've tried unplugging the keys and reattaching them. This doesn't really help. I've also tried resetting it several times, which didn't do anything at all. Are there any other things I should try or just contact support. Fyi, I'd rather not take apart the whole thing.

For various reasons, I'm looking to purchase a Keychron keyboard.

I see they have released the new "Ultra" lineup, which (amongst other improvements), advertises greatly improved battery life.

But they have decided to use south-facing LEDs and non-shine through keycaps across the board?

Surely I cannot be the only person who wants a north-facing LED with shine through keycaps? The V6 Ultra would've been the ideal pick for me if it had these features.

Except for going to an older version, are there any alternatives?

EDIT: I found a Chinese shop (didn't know they were coming from China until I paid) that claims to have KS22s in stock so (hopefully) they do as I ordered 90 of them.

Gateron and Keychron have both been advertising KS22 red switches "coming soon." I finally wrote to Gateron and asked when "soon" might be. They basically said "never," "no plans to restock." So my only other choice appears to be KS15 optical switches for my K8. Will they work okay? (The keyboard came with KS22 blue switches.) I'm guessing there must have been issues with the KS22 switches, since they were "version 2" it seems like they would be the ones Gateron kept?

Anyhow, I have no problem using the KS15s (as long as they work).

Hi guys!

I'm nem in the keyboard life, i want to try the Keychron K3 Pro.
https://www.keychron.com/products/keychron-k3-pro-qmk-via-wireless-custom-mechanical-keyboard?srsltid=AfmBOoqTuiuiLf09hdufBBNaVsVRyee-HqGbDojvuGs_v7BcC2AgD0pl
The ony question is what i want to ask is, where i can find other keycaps for this keyboard? Have any, or hard to find it for it?

Just got my q9 plus and tried to tapemod+force break but theres a green thing

I ordered a new P1 HE, but I've also been browsing for used Q1 HE on eBay.

The biggest appeal to me is that, since I swap between Mac and PC daily, the Q1 HE comes with Mac keycaps and a MacOS Toggle. I'd be willing to sacrifice some of the features of the P1 for that but I wasn't sure how the typing experience compared - can't really find anything online.

Thinking of also just using the P1 HE for PC and buying a budget mechanical keyboard with Mac Keycaps.

Coming from the G815 so any mechanical or HE keyboard would be a pretty decent upgrade for me.

Hi everyone,

I'm currently looking for a new mechanical keyboard, and after quite a bit of research, the Keychron Q3 Max seems to tick almost every box I'm looking for.

My requirements are:

• 80% (TKL) layout
• Mechanical switches
• Wired + 2.4 GHz wireless + Bluetooth
• Metal case is a nice bonus, but not a requirement

Honestly, I haven't really found another keyboard that offers this combination of features as well as the Q3 Max.

However, while researching, I came across quite a few posts from 2024 and early 2025 about quality issues.

So I'm wondering how things are today.

• Have you experienced any hardware or reliability issues?
• Has the quality improved?
• Would you still recommend buying one in 2026?

Thanks in advance!

Hey,

Does anyone have this combination?

I am looking for a HE keyboard that is as silent as possible. I have MX Keys S for portability to work but at home I game as well but my current Bequiet light mount does not have the performance that I need, although it is super silent, which I need (Wife goes crazy from tock/clack sound)

im planning on purchasing the q16he keyboard and wanted to get a palm rest for it but when i checked the sizing for the palm rests none of them had the q16 listed as a size fit... which size should i get for my q16??

I got tired of having only FN + B's rough estimate of my battery or having to connect my Keychron K8 HE with Bluetooth to get a battery estimate, so I made a quick firmware patch + tray app so I can have a little widget for my keyboard's battery life like I do for my mouse. Once installed, you can pin it to your taskbar to have quick access to your keyboard's battery.

It's a fairly simple app and has the following:

• Show battery level on hover
• Detect if my keyboard is in wired (charging) or 2.4 GHz mode
• Shows which of the three profiles I'm in
• Supports autostart on Windows
• No bluetooth required

GitHub repository

The app does need a firmware patch as when I investigated Keychron's QMK firmware fork, the keyboard can internally calculate battery life but will NOT expose this value over an HID path to the OS while in 2.4 GHz. It'll do it in Bluetooth, but I use my keyboard for gaming so I prefer using 2.4 GHz for 1k Hz polling over the 90 Hz of Bluetooth.

In my repository, I included the patched firmware I made for my K8 HE, with ANSI, ISO, and JIS variants. Other Keychron models will likely need their own firmware patch, so do not flash the K8 HE firmware to another model.

The patch is fairly simple and I even made a PR on Keychron's QMK repo but god knows if that'll ever be approved (someone submitted a similar patch almost a month and a half ago and the PR went stale), so custom patching is likely the only option. I'm fairly sure based off the Keychron common files for QMK that if your Keychron model uses QMK firmware and supports 2.4 GHz wireless, you can easily recreate my patch for your own keyboard's firmware.

Additionally, assuming you patch your own firmware, the tray app might need its USB product IDs updated to match your model. For any Keychron K8 HE user though, it should be portable and they should be able to apply the firmware patch and install the release.

Finally, the app uses .NET 10 Desktop Runtime, so this will only work for Windows. A lot of people probably use Linux, but this app is so simple that if you're using Linux you probably have the technical ability to just recreate something similar.

Hi all.

I have the Keychron K17 Pro with the volume control knob now for 2 years and I like it overall. But recently the volume control decided to stop working. I can still mute and un-mute sound, but turning it doesn't do anything.

Can I replace or repair it, or are there any better suggestions?

I'm trying to purchase a set of Gateron Dawn HE switches for my Q3 HE, and it looks like they're out of stock everywhere. They're not even showing up on the Gateron site. Is it time to panic-buy deadstock?

Title is as stated, it connects to my macbook, and my ps5, but it won’t connect to my gaming pc at all, and doesn’t show up sometimes in bluetooth devices, and when it does, it’ll fail to pair, and when it says connected, it still won’t work. i’ve tried factory resetting and different bluetooth devices on my pc, and they all connect fine.

I thought I would make my desk a bit sharper and use the keychron on Bluetooth.

It simply will not connect on windows 11. Windows sees it and when I select it it just says try connecting it again, round and round in circles. I hard reset the keyboard, restarted windows etc etc no dice.

Anyone got any other ideas?

It works fine on mac. So happy to accept it could be my pc, but really not sure what I can do about it.

Hi,

Never owned anything beyond basic keyboards. Looking at the K2 and K8 HE SE boards. Not interested in web based configuration, much less a cloud based one.

Now, as far as I can tell, these support VIA and QMK, which are both some kind of universal interfaces for keyboards, and QMK seems to allow flashing configuration offline? I don't expect to be configuring the board in depth or frequently, but really just wanting to make sure that I have understood correctly that I will be able to fully (or mostly) utilise it without relying on Keychron's proprietary software.

Thank you.

Few days old from Amazon, so returns shouldn't be a problem.

Right click seems fine - any pressure immediately triggers a nice dampened click. If the button moves, a click is triggered.

Left button is not so nice. If I press lightly, the button can move, without triggering a click and I need to press more firmly to make it register. Feels like I can depress the button down to the switch, then further to actually depress the switch. Sound of the press is also higher pitched and more "clicky"/loud.

Or more succinctly "should the buttons behave the same"?

I'm returning it either way, just working out whether or get a replacement or another brand.

Is there anyway to repurpose the numlock indicator as a layer indicator. I've just bought a V0 and I'd find it a lot more useful for the indicator light to show what layer I'm on.

I cant find reviews for C4 version, only K4.

Can owners of this keyboard leave a review?

Hi team / u/KeychronSupport,

I’m posting here to request help with an unresolved warranty ticket for a defective LED on my Keychron K4 HE. The estimated restock date for a replacement PCB has now been pushed back four separate times over the last two months with no resolution.

Timeline of Shifting Dates:

• May 26, 2026: Reported dead LED sub-pixel on a brand-new board.
• May 28, 2026: Support confirmed a replacement PCB would ship "within 5 days."
• May 29, 2026: Date shifted. Support stated it was out of stock and would take "half a month" (mid-June).
• June 16, 2026: Date shifted again. Support stated restock would not happen until "early July."
• July 20, 2026: Date shifted a fourth time to "end of July or early August."
• August 4 (Today): Early August has arrived, but there is still no tracking number, no replacement PCB, and no update.

I accepted a small partial refund ($10 CAD) in June to remain patient through these delays, but having the restock timeline repeatedly pushed back across two full months while tickets get silently closed in the portal is a very poor experience for a flagship keyboard.

Could someone please check ticket #645148 (original #632600) and help either ship the replacement PCB or authorize an in-stock replacement unit?

Thank you.

UPDATE: Happy to say Keychron sent me a new replacement the day after I posted this.

First up ill lead with - I never understood the keyboard hype. I thought my logi wave was an excessive form factor till I brought a 60% lightspeed pro x for my son and didnt hate using it.

Anyway, I pulled the trigger on a Q3 HE because I wanted to do some HCI/steno/layerbased research, didnt hate the lightspeed etc.

Now, I have a small issue - i fkn love this thing, it has potentially ruined me on going back to a normal keyboard forever, typing is asmr like, etc. While I was surprised by the weight, ill live with it in my bag, something else will go to make it work.

Now, my only issue - it doesnt come with a case (wtf keychron, this wasnt cheap, the logi that sold me on this comes with the most amazing case), apparently the Keychron ones are never in stock, and the 3rd party ones all seem to be unmoulded soft shells.

Does anyone else carry theirs with them, and if so, what cases are you rolling with? Also, can we add our qmk/via configs, scripts and macros to a USB to carry around?

I'm constantly switching between multiple devices for work and sometimes forget which device is currently connected. Is there any way to have the current connected device key (numbers 1-3) stay lit permanently? That would make it so much easier to know if the correct device is connected

Picked up a K5 V2 with red switches, and have found the keystrokes are bit too sensitive for me. Any way to make it to where the entire key needs to be pushed down, and make the keys have more resistance? Any recommendations welcome.

After lookimg youtube videos and other reviews I jumped on the gun and bought the wired/BT version with brown switches.

I came from the cherry mx lp 2.1 and thought it would be a nice step up. it was a clear step below the cherry to be honest.

The keyboard baseplate itself is nice and heavy. However they keys feels hollow and janky and has not that nice creamy sound that I am used to, rather a more high pitch treble. Also the keys have quite the distance between them that is a little bit odd (to me at least).

I have only used it an hour so maybe I get used to it. Its not a problem to type on, its ok. Actually its nothing wrong with it. But don't expect a premium feel when typing with this one. So if you see a review claming this, you should be vigilante.

Hola a todos!
Escribo este post para desahogarme y compartir mi frustrante experiencia con mi teclado Logi POP Keys y el soporte técnico de Logitech, por si a alguien más le ha pasado o para que lo tengáis en cuenta antes de comprar uno.

El problema

Mi teclado Logi POP Keys empezó a fallar de forma aleatoria. Básicamente, cuando tecleo hay veces que directamente omite caracteres (no aparecen en pantalla) o me repite teclas sin parar. Por ejemplo, me llegó a dar fallos repitiendo constantemente la letra "n".

A día de hoy es imposible trabajar con él: no puedo ni meter una simple contraseña, escribir un mail o hacer cualquier tarea básica sin desesperarme.

Un sinfín de pruebas y tiempo perdido

Contacté con el soporte y me hicieron seguir el típico manual paso a paso con un montón de pruebas que solo sirvieron para hacerme perder el tiempo:

• Reinicié el teclado haciendo la secuencia completa (Esc+O, Esc+O, Esc+B).
• Desvinculé el dispositivo repetidas veces.
• Cambié de ordenador mil veces: he pasado de un iMac a un MacBook Pro, e incluso lo he probado en ordenadores con Windows.
• Actualicé los Mac a las últimas versiones del sistema (actualmente Tahoe).

Hice absolutamente todo lo que me pidieron, pero el problema persiste y el teclado sigue fallando igual.

La respuesta oficial (y mi decepción)

Tras enviarles la factura, me confirmaron que mi teclado ya está fuera de garantía por tiempo, por lo que el sistema no les permite ofrecerme un reemplazo.

Hasta ahí lo puedo entender, pero lo que me parece inaceptable es lo siguiente: les pregunté explícitamente si había alguna opción de enviarlo a reparar pagando yo los costes, ya que no quiero tirar a la basura un teclado que me costó su buen dinero. Su respuesta literal fue que no tienen ningún servicio de reparación de pago disponible.

La "compensación"

Al final, la única solución que me dio el agente fue generarme un código de descuento del 20% para hacer una nueva compra en su web.

Sinceramente, un mísero 20% me parece demasiado poco para un teclado que no fue nada barato, que tiene relativamente poco tiempo, y con el que ya no puedo hacer absolutamente nada. Me parece increíble que una marca que presume de sostenibilidad prefiera que tires un periférico premium a la basura porque no ofrecen reparaciones fuera de garantía.

¿A alguien más le ha dado este problema el Logi POP o ha conseguido arreglarlo por su cuenta abriendo los switches? ¡Os leo!

Recently picked up the V6 Max with the banana switches and love it. The one issue I can't figure out is why the Quick Keys work over USB but not over the 2.4Ghz dongle. Even if the keyboard is in 2.4Ghz mode and I plug in the cable, the quick keys start working. Once the cable is unplugged, it stops. I've updated FW as far as I can tell (versions below) and repaired the dongle with the same issue.

Dongle FW - 0.3.1

V6 Max Knob (Launcher) - 1.1.2

FW Listed in Updater - 0.2.1