Customer Ratings & Reviews

Nominal Updates I've been a long time fan of Logitech's products, especially since the "Master-esque" line of products started being released with the original MX Master Mouse. I've acquired nearly every recent generation of product between the MX Master and MX Keys line (and considering for the purpose of this review the Logitech Craft keyboard to be the "first" of the MX Keys keyboards, although not by name) and am continually impressed with the consistent experience that Logitech provides in its flagship products. "Consistent experience" seems to be the name of the game now for the top-of-the-line Logitech MX Keys S, the renewed version of the original MX Keys released back in 2019. There are definitely some changes over the Logitech Keys (I use the Keys for Mac version of the first-generation keyboard), but it to some degree has reached "Ford F-150 status" in that a front-running, well-selling keyboard needs to change very little from generation to generation in order to retain its spot at the front of the pack. One notable difference in only a few years is Logitech's commitment to more responsible packaging, providing a slightly less premium, but still enjoyable unboxing experience. There was a nice piece of canvas/fabric folded around the Keys S, along with a USB Type-A to Type-C charging cable and the Logi Bolt USB receiver. Logitech claims a battery life of 10 days with backlighting, and up to 5 months without. The Craft Keyboard from Logitech always irritated me because the battery life seemed painfully short, but I've seen improvements in battery life across all their products generation-over-generation. Your use case will obviously be different than mine (or anyone else's). Not long ago I reviewed the MX Master 3S, titling the review "so much difference in only a click." That again seems to be the sentiment with the Keys S, wherein the only noticeable difference in experience is the sound of the keys...but that difference is not significant or substantially noticeable. That doesn't mean, however, that I don't love it. The original Keys keyboard has a sharper, slightly higher frequency "click" to its keypresses, versus a slightly more muted, less bright sounding click on the Keys S. Alongside the Logitech MX 3S, this creates a very muted--but still intentional and specific--set of noises around keypresses and mouse clicks. There are two other components to the Logitech accessory experience that have to be mentioned in EVERY review are the Logi Options app, and the Flow functionality within that app. Logi Options (or Logi Options+ depending on the product) is the companion app that really deserves to be installed on your computer. This app provides customization options around keymapping, which can be changed based on the type of device the keyboard is connected to (the Keys S can be paired to up to 3 different devices like its older sibling). And finally, there's Flow...the cross-device, cross-platform software KVM for sharing your mouse and keyboard across multiple devices. Flow just keeps getting better and smoother, and given a lack of significant competition for Mac's universal control, something that offers similar functionality across multiple platforms is a welcome alternative. And then there's price. Look, $120 is no small amount of money to pay for a somewhat un-exciting, well-built, quieter chiclet-style keyboard...but I have before and will continue to endorse opening your wallet for Logitech's premium products. I've used them for years, and I'm always pleased with performance, durability and experience--and when your mouse and your keyboard are you primary methods of interacting with your computer day-to-day, you deserve to spend a little extra to get the thing that you want.

I am typing this review on this keyboard. Thoughtful design, quality materials and rock-solid build all add up to a high-end experience. It’s got clean styling and a lack of gaudy branding. I like it a lot. The keyboard is weighty, well balanced, and stays put on my desk offering a firm typing surface, has a full-size backspace key, media control keys, and a one key lock on the top right corner. It would be nice to have the customary Windows logo on the Win key rather than the word “start” but I can understand why a cross platform device might avoid that. I’m a big keyboard kind of user. I’ve always gravitated toward luxe boards since my keyboard and mouse are notably the only parts of my computer that I actually touch when using the computer. Why folks skimp on their tools is an eternal mystery and I’m hardly going to be the one who solves it. I usually use a Logitech G910 mechanical keyboard with linear keys. It is not quiet. The MX Keys is very quiet, sounds more like a nice laptop or Mac keyboard. Online calls will be easier for me now without being worried about my keyboard noise coming through the mic. Speaking of online calls, this board has a microphone mute programmed on the top row, way better than mousing around the window looking for the mute in whatever app I’m using. I would have preferred a rotary volume knob on the top right corner, but tapping volume keys on the F row works too, it’s just nice to have that volume control where I don’t have to look down to adjust. The number pad area has a dedicated key for Windows Screen Snip, one key for taking screenshots, windows, or selected areas of the screen is quite useful. In fact, there is no PrintScreen key on this board and good riddance, there’s a new and better way. A dictation key on F5 opens Windows voice recognition feature and allows you to type by speaking. Lack of a wrist rest makes it uncomfortable for me for long typing sessions. Without the wrist rest and the keyboard being forced into an angle by the battery stack across the rear of the board makes extended use for me uncomfortable, but my hands will adjust once I get the wrist rest. I think I might just be spoiled? For touch typists, home row is easy to find and the key indents make this an easier board to touch type with than the Apple keyboards with the flat keys. The way that the keyboard lights up when my hands move towards it is cool, I wish every keyboard did that. This is another thoughtful design touch that maintains full functionality with the wireless keyboard while maximizing battery life. The backlighting is consistent across the keys and has 7 steps from no backlight to full brightness, also a nice feature. Logitech’s Logi Options+ software lets you customize the top row keys to a wide selection of pre-defined functions, or you can make a custom function such as launching an app at your pleasure. The software is simple and intuitive, I like it. I had no problems with using it on my iPad, it paired via Bluetooth and worked great. The Xbox did not fare as well, but my couch is perhaps too far to overcome all the other transmitters and Wi-Fi stuff that’s stuffed in the cabinet. Go ahead and buy it, wireless keyboards don’t get better than this.

16.75 x 5 x .25" (front) / .75" (back) 1 lbs 12 ounces The MX Keys S keyboard is nearly identical to the MX Keys and even moreso to the MX Keys for Business since that version used the Bolt receiver instead of Logitech's older less reliable Unifying receiver. It does come with an upgrade that will make you willing to trade up if you're already an owner of one of them. And if you're not, with the MX Keys S, this is one I can finally recommend getting. I'm not going to bury the lede. I'm going to straight to it. The MX Keys S finally allows Backlighting customization. This is what many, myself included, have been waiting for. Asking for. BEGGING for. It's not perfect, and I'm betting it will still anger some with the way Logitech settled. But it will work for most. With the Options+ software the MX Keys S allows you to keep the backlighting on for up to 30 minutes. And THANKFULLY, it's very generous with the customization of backlight's duration. You adjust the backlight duration using a slider and from 5 to 60 seconds, the selections are 5 seconds apart. From 1 minute to 30 minutes, the selections are 1 minute apart. With this, you can combat the finicky behavior of the proxity sensor and eliminate the flashing. The proximity sensor will only come to play to wake the keyboard after a lengthy period of time of your choosing (up to 30 minutes) instead of relying on it to detect activity while you're in the middle of typing. There is no "Always On" option unfortunately. Not even for while the keyboard is plugged in and charging. There's also a caveat to this setting: When plugged into USB C, the MX Keys S ignores this setting and will automatically hibernate after 5 minutes of inactivity. The proximity sensor will turn off. To wake the keyboard back up, you would need to press a key on the keyboard. It's a step in the right direction. Logitech's other full sized wireless backlight keyboard, the K800, never had it this good. You can toggle backlighting on or off. You can also toggle Automatic Brightness. With Automatic Brightness on, MX Keys S will manage the brightness according to the amount of light in your environment. With Automatic Brightness off, you have the option of setting the brightness to one of its 7 levels of brightness. And the MX Keys S gets very bright. For comparison, somewhere between the MX Keys S's level 2 and 3 brightness is the max brightness of Logitech's K740. Unlike with my old K740, the lowest brightness on the MX Keys S is very usable. But I prefer mine on level 2. Besides being close to the max brightness of my K740, it lessens the intensity of the light bleed that you get coming from underneath the keys of the MX Keys S. If your keyboard on a surface low enough and easily looking over the keys, the light bleed won't be a problem at all. But I have a tall desk, where the surface is almost up to my chest. Because of this, I can see the gaps underneath the keys, hence the distracting light bleed. You can toggle the Battery saving mode. When enabled, this automatically turns off backlighting when the battery level drops below 10%. Finally with the Options+ backlight settings, there is a Reset Backlighting button to restore the backlight settings back to the factory settings. Unlike the original retail version of MX Keys, the MX Keys S is finally running off of the Bolt USB receiver. Despite it being compatible with bluetooth, the USB receiver is a preferred option for desktop users because BIOS cannot recognize bluetooth devices. Of course, Logitech already has something similar to Bolt with its Unifying receiver, but the technology is so old, and susceptible to interference in certain environments. Bolt is based on the newer Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 standard operating on a different set of channels, which helps combat the already congested 2.4 GHz spectrum that's home to microwave ovens, phones, wifi signals, etc. Unifying will eventually become obsolete and be replaced by Bolt as no newly released devices are using it. Everything else the MX Keys S has to offer is about the same as its original. The form factor and size is the same. It's low profile with no wrist rest, so it may be uncomfortable or take some getting used to for some. If you've used Apple's Magic Keyboard, you know exactly what you're in for. Of course a wrist rest can be bought, including one from Logitech specifically for the MX Keys but keep in mind, that also takes away part of what makes the MX Keys series attractive: it doesn't take up a lot of space. The build of the MX Keys S is made of plastic but with how sturdy the base feels, you would think it's metal. It's not. It's a very hard premium plastic. However, it's lined on the outside with a thinner plastic that isn't as sturdy. In some areas of the lining, when I'm squeezing it from holding the keyboard, it creaks. Fortunately the keys are atop the sturdy plastic so you never get any creaking noise while typing on it. In fact, the keys are pretty quiet. Some will say silent, but I perceive silence as no noise. You can still hear the keys while typing. But it's very quiet. The travel on the keys is great for typing with a satisfying tactile response. It's good enough for gaming too but clearly nowhere near the kind of tactile response you'd get from a mechanical keyboard. In its effort to accomodate use across multiple devices it compromises its layout: -For Windows, the MX Keys S is missing the Print Screen and Pause/Break keys. You can program these funtions to any of its 17 programmable keys using the Options+ app but out of the box, these buttons do not exist. This is a huge problem for users that rely on those keys and work with computers where they're not allowed to install software on them. Logitech made the curiously poor decision of mapping its Screen capturing key specifically to Windows' Snipping Tool app. So without Options+ you can't perform the Print Screen function or have apps map to the print screen key because it doesn't exist on the MX Keys S. There is also no Pause/Break key, which can be a hassle for programmers and terminal users. Logitech's out of the box workaround shortcut for this function is pressing Fn + B. While you can program both functions with Options+, the software doesn't even list either function in a way that's intuitive. If you try to map Print Screen to a key, Print Screen isn't among one of the selectable options on Options+. It's listed as "Screen capture". It makes sense, but there's already been a name for it since forever. By listing it as Screen capture, it's not clear if it's the Print Screen key function or another Screen capturing function the way the default function opens Windows' Snipping Tool. The Pause/Break function is completely absent from its list. You need select "keyboard shortcut" when mapping the key and use Fn+B as the keyboard shortcut. When you do, you'll see that Options+ recognizes the shortcut you entered as "Break". But again, this is only possible with the Options+ app installed. Out of the box, these keys do NOT exist. -For macOS, to the right of the space bar are the Command, Fn, and Option keys, in that order. Whereas the traditional Mac keyboard layout goes: Command, Option, Control. The MX Keys S, like Logitech's Master MX mice series, can pair with up to 3 compatible devices by either Bolt or bluetooth. Switching between devices is as easy as pressing the numbered device button on the keyboard. If you have a mouse that's compatible with Logitech Flow you can link that mouse to MX Keys S in the Options+ app. With Logitech Flow, you can operate your paired computers with the same mouse like a multi-monitor setup. The mouse seamlessly moves across the screen to the next paired device as if they were the same computer. And you can arrange them like monitors within Options+. The clipboard is also shared. With MX Keys linked to the mouse, it will automatically switch devices (no matter the OS) to the same one as the mouse without needing to press the device key. With the Options+ app, you can map the 17 programmable keys per application as well. Something that's currently in beta is "Smart Actions", which are basically macros programmed with If this then that instructions, similar to Samsung's Routines. You'll be able to assign these Smart Actions you create to keys. Conditional triggers will range from Application, Device, and System but they're presently not all available yet. Battery life is advertisted to last for 10 days with the backlight on its default settings: 30 second backlight duration, Automatic brightness on, battery saving mode on. With backlight off, it's 5 months. I haven't had the time to test it but it seems feasible from my short testing of the default settings. It stayed at 100% then at 95% for several hours. What I did test was battery life with the max settings. Max brightness (level 7), 30 minute brightness duration, battery saver disabled. It lasted about 24 hours on continuous use; a little over 24 in real time when I went out to eat for breakfast and lunch, and slept for 5 hours. Charging the MX Keys S from 0% to 100% took about 4 hours (3 hours and 57 minutes) using my 100W laptop charger. So there's no fast charging. It won't take advantage of higher wattage adapters. You can use the keyboard while it's charging but the USB cable is for charging only. It's not transporting data or operating as a wired keyboard. It's still running wirelessly while charging. As far as portability goes, while its minimalist design makes it really slim, it's relatively heavy from the materials and battery. Due to its length, it will only fit lengthwise inside a laptop bag made for a 17" laptop. Now that we're able to extend the backlight duration for longer than 5 seconds, I can safely recommend the MX Keys S. This is the keyboard most of us have been waiting for. But Logitech shouldn't stop here. We need always on backlighting while the keyboard is charging, PLEASE!

This keyboard is great. I enjoy the black light that only works when touching the keys, easy to click, slick design. I have this keyboard for work and one at home for personal use.

I love this keyboard more than I thought I would! It has a satisfying sound without being noisy, I love the backlit keys, and it's so nice being able to switch devices with one key

It's definitely a nice keyboard, but might consider the mechanical version next time. Mine is finally giving out after a little over 2 years of everyday use. Here's what stood out to me- Pros: - Bright LED Backlight - Keys are slim and quiet - Battery held about the same charge after 2 years - Versatile software for customization Cons: - Lights are spotty at higher settings - Mechanics under the keys break easily and make it hard to clean - Hand sensor goes bad and will trigger lights randomly - Minor latency might not be as noticeable to others - Having to charge the battery can annoying for a stationary keyboard. - Did I mention it's overpriced?

I've been waiting for this update to Logitech's MX Keys series. Whereas the previous version only worked with the Unified Receiver, this one is fully supported by their Bolt adapter. But there's more than just that. There are new key layouts that are better suited to those that do a lot of video/remote conferencing. Essentially, this keyboard appears to almost exactly the same as their MX Keys for Business keyboard, but now in all black. This is great, because now the keyboard matches their MX Master 3S mouse and can use the same Bolt adapter. With all of this said, this keyboard is a total pleasure to type on. The travel isn't too shallow, it's quiet, and the indented keys help your fingers find the sweet spot. The elevation of the keyboard isn't adjustable, but I find the angle to be perfect for me. Key backlighting is configurable directly or updated through the Option+ app. It's useful to save power - which I didn't notice to last any longer than its predecessors. And as before, it uses USB-C to charge and can accommodate 3 different devices connected to it.

Very good -- an older keyboard I loved failed, and this one is a better, very similar, replacement. No batteries, USB C charging which lasts at least a week even with heavy use, and several levels of back illumination, My only complaint is that when backlight off the key lettering is very faint, and since I'm not a typist, finding the keys requires me to have backlighting on.

This has been a great keyboard. I tried the Apple keyboard supplied with the iMac and the upgraded keyboard. But this one is so much nicer./

Love it! I've tried several in search of a good wireless, backlit keyboard to replace my discontinued Logitec K800. Finally found this that has all of those features and has good key-feel.

It's more like a 4.5 stars but there are some annoying issues. There should be more backlight settings such as always on and the sensor to turn the light back on after a while aren't always responsive, at least not immediately. There are some issues with the caps locks being too close to "A". The software that allows you to customize the keyboard isn't the best and could use some serious improvements especially with allowing you to program the keys. When using the usb reciever, there are some issues with connection as sometimes the keyboard will disconnnect and it will take a while to work again. The solution to this is just switching up ports, but why is this a problem in the first place. Might be missing on or two things, but besides that, the keyboard is amazing. Looks nice, feels smooth, sounds nice, and has several cool features.

Love this product. It’s the best keyboard I have ever bought. Sticking with Logitech forever

This keyboard is easy to set up and works great. Very light so it’s easy to transport.

Having used various third-party keyboards with both PCs and Macs (and iPads) over the years, I’ve had extensive experience with high-end, low-end, middle of the road keyboards, you name it. Logitech never fails to bring it on! They just simply make the best keyboards out there. This one’s no exception. Just the look of it is so sleek and classy, with the low profile making my desk setup look clean and minimalist. And it’s a good, hefty weight which will not slide easily around on a surface, nor is it cheap or plasticky feeling at all. The shape of the keys makes it easy to type, with a good tactile feel and bounce back when typing. I like the backlighting of the keys, and how they can sense when you position your hands above them and they turn on automatically. And no batteries to worry about, as it recharges with a USB-C connection. Setup via Bluetooth was a breeze. I tried this keyboard with my iMac, MacBook, ASUS and Dell laptops, and my iPads—worked perfectly with all of them, and I was able to hook it up with a max of three devices at once and switch seamlessly between them when warranted.

I was looking for a different keyboard for work as my existing keyboard was an old wired keyboard that came with an old desktop. I wanted a full keyboard that I didn't have to press so hard. With this keyboard I don't feel like I have to press the keys as hard, nor do I have to press them as far. It is much more comfortable for me to use this keyboard than my previous wired keyboard. This keyboard was not set up initially for the F keys to work. With my work I tend to use the F keys quite a bit, so I changed the F keys so they work as F keys when I press them. The keyboard is also programmed out of the box so the back lighting comes on automatically. I have not changed that function, but may in the future as I don't really need it. There is an app to download to customize the keyboard, but I have not had a need to use it yet. Depending on how long the battery charge lasts, I may not bother with it. In general I am very happy with this keyboard and would recommend it if you have an old wired keyboard.

I hate wires so this helps my OCD. Gives my work area a clean look

It works great and it's comfortable to the touch. I like the fact that it backlights when you touch it so you can use it in the dark war during the day.

Not a bad keyboard that replaces my K800. But the one thing that baffles me. Why in God's name did you guys eliminate the spacing between the function keys F4-F5, F8-F9 on all of the MX series??? Those of us who blind type rely on feel and location. Now I hit the wrong F keys often. I love the feel of the keys (like the K800) but I am making constant mistakes + there is no spacing between QWERTY and the function row. Wake up guys.

It's a terrific keyboard. The backlit keys make a big difference. The connection to my laptop is easy and fast.

I love the feel and the quiet of the keys. And the profile is just the right height.