Nov 16, 2015 - Read how to check the remote's battery level and charge it back up. Voice-control via Siri as well as sensors and a trackpad, the battery life is. The Apple Remote uses CR2032 or BR2032 lithium coin batteries. This is a very common type of battery, so you can buy replacements at just about any store that sells batteries. For a second generation Apple Remote, use a coin to open the battery door on the back of the remote. Swap the old battery.
Reader Greg Wills is thinking of pulling the plug on some well-used gadgets before their time. He writes: I have several old Apple remote controls—the white ones. I hear they work with today’s Apple gear but all of mine are dead. Is there anything I can do to revive them?
These things are battery operated and, while it’s not obvious, you can change those batteries. Take a close look at the bottom of the remotes and you’ll see a small round dimple.
This isn’t a decoration but rather a hint that if you apply pressure to that spot, something helpful will happen. In this case, the spring-loaded battery tray will pop out. However, I’ve yet to make one sproing out with just the pressure of a well-placed finger. Depress the dimple to pop out the battery tray Instead, grab a paper clip, straighten out one end, and address the dimple with that end. Ploink, out comes the tray. Inside you’ll find a 3 volt lithium battery (model CR2032). These batteries are common enough that you should be able to find them wherever batteries are sold for well under a buck a piece.
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I was having some trouble with my Mac's infrared remote, and I thought maybe its battery had died -- but I wasn't sure how to test that. After some thought, I came up with a quick way to test the battery. Just open Photo Booth and point your remote at the camera (make sure the end of the remote is visible in the onscreen image), then press any button on the remote (volume up or down, for instance). If you see a bright light emitting from the remote in the Photo Booth window, you know the remote's working OK and has battery juice. [ robg adds: I tried this with my MacBook Pro, and it indeed works quite well -- the infrared light is picked up by the camera, and shows up very brightly in the Photo Booth window. Obviously, you could use any app that lets you see the camera's input in real time, not just Photo Booth.].
It's not like it's hard to think of this. The fact that many video cameras pick up IR is pretty common knowledge. I could have told you that when I was 10. Testing the same thing with a webcam isn't really a huge leap of reasoning. I also came up with this myself when my remote stopped working, though it's not from a dead battery. Mine's a weirder problem; it only works when held fairly level.