1. This sounds like I'm messing with you but. Connect and disconnect the type cover by pulling it away and then hovering the cover over the surface connector till they snap together. Do this fifteen times quickly and it causes the surface to reinstall the type cover drivers.
2. Right-click Surface Type Cover Filter Device. Select Uninstall OK. Restart your Surface. It'll automatically download and install the Surface Type Cover.

1. Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Showing In Device Manager
2. Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Working
3. Surface Type Cover Filter Device Pro 3

Hello, after (glitched update) my keyboard, volume etc stopped working. I did a full reinstall of OS and volume up + power button for a few seconds. Now volume button is working. Type cover keyboard is not working only the damn touchpad. In device manager i have exclamation mark. Surface Type Cover 4 – keys have a gap Surface Type Cover 3 – keys have NO gap. The images above show you the difference between the old Surface Pro 3 Type Cover with the close keys and the newer Type Cover 4 with the spaced out keys. The overall keyboard is almost exactly the same size, but the Type Cover 4 is a much better typing experience. Since 2017, numerous Microsoft Surface Pro 4 users face the sudden death of their Type Cover. There are tantalizing hints that the Type Covers went dead upon a Microsoft software update: 'surface type cover filter device' driver disappeared, and the type cover no longer works. Users around the world tried to revive their type covers using the methods advised by Microsoft to no avail.

Symptoms:

• Following imaging with Windows 10 1903 using Configuration Manager OSD, the Type Cover doesn’t work at all (keyboard, trackpad).
• When rebooting the machine, the keyboard and trackpad both work when in the BIOS.
• When imaging the machine, both the keyboard and trackpad work in Windows PE.

Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Showing In Device Manager

Surface Type Cover Filter Device Not Working

The Surface Pro 3 was imaged and then patched up-to-date and the most recent Surface Pro 3 drivers available from Microsoft were applied, however the issue persisted.

To correct this issue, complete the following steps:

Surface Type Cover Filter Device Pro 3

1. Open Control Panel and navigate to ‘Hardware and Sound’ and then ‘Devices and Printers’.
2. Select the Surface Type Cover and open the properties for this device. Select the ‘Hardware’ tab on the dialog:
   
3. In turn, select each of the device functions shown in the list and click the ‘Properties’ button:
   
4. Click the ‘Change Settings’ button, then from the dialog that is shown select ‘Uninstall Device’. If offered the option to delete the driver software for this device, ensure that the checkbox to do so is selected (not all devices offer this option) and click ‘Uninstall’:
   
5. Ensure this has been completed for all device functions shown in the list, then close the main properties dialog.
6. Open the Device Manager for the computer, right-click the computer name at the top and select ‘Scan for Hardware Changes’.
7. Expand the firmware section within Device Manager. For each of the items shown, right click the item and select ‘Update Driver’. Click ‘Search automatically for updated driver software’ from the dialog that is shown:
   Note that if you’ve installed the latest Surface Pro 3 drivers, none of the firmware items shown are likely to be updated, but attempt to update each item. If you’ve not installed the latest drivers, the firmware list may have more generic titles which will be updated as the appropriate firmware is applied.
8. Repeat the process of updating the driver for each item under the Keyboards section of the Device Manager. Note that even with the most recent driver pack installed, all of these entries on the device I was working on were the generic ‘HID Keyboard Device’. We don’t know which one of the keyboard devices listed is the Type Cover, however when you get to the correct one you’ll that the driver that is installed is listed as ‘Surface Type Cover Filter Device’:
   
9. As soon as this driver is installed, the Type Cover should start working again. In my case no reboot was required.