Magic mouse sluggish

About once a day, or more, my Magic Mouse become sluggish. It will not move quickly and I end up using the touch pad to do my work. I really don't like this mouse and am considering going back to a good, old, cheap, reliable, wireless mouse.

I've had the same problem since buying it; even had it switched out at the Genious Bar. I've gone back to the Magic Mouse, which only requires the ball to be cleaned from time to time to work realiably.
But since a wireless mouse has so much to offer, I'll probably buy another brand.

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Magic mouse sluggish after rebooting mac

Hi,
I have a strange problem with my magic mouse.
I have an early 2013 Macbook pro retina. After I upgraded to Yosemite, for a while I had a lot of problems with the magic mouse, sluggish response, disconnecting all the time and so on.
I reset the SMC and that solved the problem, occasionally it would come back but resetting the SMC always solved it.
But a few times, I have problems after rebooting the mac. The mouse is working perfectly but when the computer reboots starts behaving badly.
Yesterday I had that problem, I rebooted my mac and after all the mouse was terrible. I tried resetting the SMC but it didn't work. I remove the device and it had problems finding it, it eventually did but still it wasn't working well.
After a while, I shut down the system, reset the SMC once again, waited for about a minute, turned it back on and as the mouse was still a bit erratic, then I rebooted, and from then on it worked well.
I read an Apple support article that recommends doing that, shutting down, wait, power on and restart.
What puzzles me is why would this happen when I reboot the mac. It's like bluetooth needs sometime to start working properly again.
does anybody know anything about this?

HI,
Try Resetting the PRAM
Also, install the v10.6.2 Combo Update
Repair disk permissions.
Quit any open applications/programs. Launch Disk Utility. (Applications/Utilities) Select MacintoshHD in the panel on the left, select the FirstAid tab. Click: Repair Disk Permissions. When it's finished from the Menu Bar, Quit Disk Utility and restart your Mac. If you see a long list of "messages" in the permissions window, it's ok. That can be ignored. As long as you see, "Permissions Repair Complete" when it's finished... you're done. Quit Disk Utility and *restart your Mac.*
Carolyn

Magic Mouse extremely sluggish when Time Capsule starts

Why is my Magic Mouse becoming extremely sluggish when Time Capsule is backing up my data? This is really frustrating, I even stopped backing up my computer because the mouse is becoming almost impossible to use as soon as Time Capsule starts...
I've heard stories of interferences between Bluetooth and Wi-Fi, can anyone confirm that and provide me with a way to solve the problem? Thanks in advance.

UPDATE:
I think I've found a solution.... Though I'm a bit reluctant to post it already because I'd really like to see if it works over time... Anyway, here is the interesting post I found by Mr. Caliostro:
... sure, go into your Airport Utility application, inside Utilities inside Applications. Click on Manual Setup when your TC appears in the window. Click on the Wireless tab. You will find a pulldown menu there called Channel. Select your channel & Update your TC settings. I set mine to channel 1 to try it, & it made a tiny improvement. How close is your TC to your mac? Does the interference reduce if you ove further away? Perhaps swapping from 802.11g/n to 802.11n or vice-versa, may help? (depending if your setup can work on 11n-only). Perhaps switching from 2.5ghz to 5ghz or vice-versa may help? both 11n & 11g can work at 5ghz as well as 2.5ghz... Let me know how you go!
I set the 5GHz channel to 48 and the 2.4GHz to 1. Of course I changed these settings completely randomly since I don't know anything about these things but it actually seems to work pretty fine! No more sluggish mouse during Time Capsule back ups!

Sluggish Magic Mouse due to LaCie USB 3.0 driver

I'm experiencing an extremely sluggish Magic Mouse when the USB 3.0 driver from LaCie is installed and a LaCie drive is connected. After removing the driver the mouse works as expected. Does anyone observed something similar?

I am experiencing the same problem on a new mac mini - when the LaCie Rikiki USB 3.0 is connected the Magic Mouse is unusable.
As sonn as the Rikiki is disconnected the mouse works again, since the Rikiki is suppose dto be the TimeMachine volume, kepping it disconnected is not really desired.
Tried the FW update from laCie's web site - but the drive already useds the latest FW.
Installing / Uninstalling LaCie-USB 3.0 drivers also did'nt made any different.
Mac Mini, Mac OS X (10.8.2)

Installed SSD & replaced Superdrive with HDD. Magic Mouse now sluggish

It may be a coincedance but since I have installed a SSD (to replace to HDD) drive and replaced the Superdrive (DVD Drive) with the existing HDD (using a HD caddy), my Magic Mouse has been sluggish.
At first it seems that my Mac was overall slow but it seems that it was just getting a bit too hot - when I opened Mac and at same time gave things a clean, I made the fan less efficient and more noisy - its OK now. Still seem to be getting hotter than I remember but it is now summer and my apartment is pretty warm.
The heat is on the left hand side of the keyboard (what would be causing that??) and not on the side where the SDD or HDD is.
Anyway, going back to the mouse. It sluggish and lags a bit. I have tried brand new batteries and same problem.
Any ideas??

I am hving the same issue.
magic mouse with hdd in original place + new SSD in optic drive bay.
OSX is on ssd bay. user on HDD.
Mouse seems to be sluggish when SSD is writing. Dropbox sync + time machine read/write etc.
Any insight on why this is would be great.

Sluggish drunk stumbling Magic Mouse

Help!   As we all have, we paid alot for quality and we are not receiving it.   Mac has done nothing to resolve the 10,000 help requests when it comes to their product, the magic mouse.
Issue: Magic Mouse performing with sluggish, drunk, lagging.
What has been tried:
Reseting PRAM
Deleting Plists
rebooting after resting SMS
uninstalling & reinstallng blutooth devices
Changing the frequency on my router to 1 & 3.
I've done it all and...... I've performed 2x a complete system reinstalls.   It works until the OS wants the updates and then the issue resolves all overagain. ITS SOFTWARE RELEATED!!!!!!
SO, if anyone has other suggestions, help and new suggestions would gratefully appreciated.
The Macfrauds have spend a few hours and then they send me to the tech guys at the store, who over and over again say eventualy for a reinstall, which I'm not going to perform for a 3rd time.
Please help.   THANK YOU!

kostas
I had this problem too. heres what I did... its like a checklist:
ok first, make sure you have really good batteries in it, "low" won't cut it.
2nd) if you have a desktop Mac (like MacPro etc) there is a T shaped antenna at the back. this sometimes gets loose and effects the signal between the mouse and the machine. take it out, clean off the plug part, reinstall it, make sure its making a good connection.
3) clean out the scroll ball with rubbing alcohol, cotton ball, and one of those blowguns helps too. make sure there is no debris caught in the ball. hod it upside down, blow the airgun into it etc. this usually works for me.
worst case, buy a new mouse.

Magic Mouse a bit sluggish when moved diagonally?

Hi,
I just connected a Magic Mouse to my Macbook Pro, it appears to me that the tracking is a bit sluggish when moved diagonally, that is, when i move the mouse diagonally it appears to object to the notion and instead move either vertically or horizontally for a moment and then kick in moving vertically. This is more apparent when moving short distances than long ones.
Is it possible my magic mouse is defective? or that it requires additional setup/calibration?
Thank you.

Ditto on the complaints. I am very frustrated. I'll be working in Aperture, for example, with an album of several hundred photos I am in the process of rating. As I go to reach for the mouse to click on a particular photo, the mouse activates a scrolling function and POOF!... I'm at the top of my photo album, forced to scroll many rows of photos to get to that one I was about to click on. Google Maps is useless as well. iTunes also sporadically scrolls through music. My productivity is noticeably hindered by this phenomenon. As a result, I find myself grabbing the mouse like a fragile egg- just on its sides to prevent accidental scrolling.

Erratic magic mouse behavior

Will anybody ever be able to decipher what the specific causes are for the erratic behavior of Apple's Magic Mouse? Personally I think it boils down to the Bluetooth Signal itself that can cause a lot of this erratic behavior, like in sudden sluggishness of movement. I see this behavior comes and goes as if some invisible force has suddenly intervened. My best guard against erratic behavior is to have the computer as close to the mouse as possible, even a foot or two. The further out the computer gets the more erratic behavior is likely, but like I said, even then it "comes and goes." Do you think it is the Bluetooth signal itself, because sometimes when it's become erratic I move the computer around, even which way it faces in relation to the mouse and I can suddenly "lock on" and the mouse returns to normal, only to have it start acting up again in a few hours or later on in the day or week or whatever. That's why I say the signal itself is suspect because I can effect the behavior by moving the computer around. Maybe the signal is effected by other components in the room like my TV or Audio Equipment or WIFI signals or remote controls.
I love my Magic Mouse and that is why I have put up with this erratic behavior struggle I'm constantly/periodically having, but I do wish this problem could be eradicated altogether and i could just use the mouse like it was intended. Incidentally, this is a brand new mouse I'm currently using that is at issue. All my other Magic Mouse have also done this exact same behavior.

Hi, thanks for the reply. Yes I'm running Yosemite 10.10.3. I'm certain much of what you posted is definitely a likelihood for some of the issues. I have a lot of electronic equipment in this house, and yes, smart tv's connected to WIFI as well as other computers throughout the house. Apple of course does not mention any of this as possible issues as far as I know, the public, like myself, just assumes all will be wonderful. I know there are more like me out there if I'm having these consistent problems with all the Magic Mouses' I've owned. It really is attacking it from the SIGNAL side of things because I think that is the only issue that's going on. If it were addressed more, maybe even scientifically, maybe we could say, "well don't put it here, this can cause problems, and that TV, keep such and such a distance." Those are the types of guidelines that would be so helpful. But from what I'm seeing none of that is addressed at all (or for the most part). Anyway, I really want the wireless mouse world (specifically the Magic Mouse) to thrive. Every time I hook up a wired mouse I really feel the step back I'm taking and it's too painful! I've even went to the point, and I'll do it again if need be, of having my computer (Mac Mini) 2 inches from the Magic Mouse, that's when it operated at its very best. My only problem with that is it's somewhat impracticable, and I really don't think I should have to do that to have it work consistently. Anywho, my two cents worth.

Magic Mouse extremely slow on Macbook Air (late 2010)

Hi All,
Just switched from PC to Mac - everything is fine and i'm very excited about it.
There's one major issue for me and that's with the Apple Magic Mouse, it feels extremely slow and sluggish - nothing like Mice i've used in Windows.
Now, it seems that third party software fixes this (Mouse Acceleration Preferences Pane i.e.) but i don;t see why it should be prefect out of the box.
Any ideas ?
Thanks,
Haim

Hi Tom,
Thanks for your quick reply. I am not convinced it is a hardware problem. For if I hold the key that is faulty pressed for a few seconds it works, and the also works for a while before it stops working again. This to me seems like it is software based. Is there a secure way to test software vs. hardware e.g. by booting from an external image into a shell only? I do not think I have an image on a usb, is there any online server that I can connect to to try it?
Thanks again
Tobias

MacBook Pro update to Yosemite breaks Magic Mouse

Installed Yosemite today. Magic Mouse instantly broken. It does connect sometimes, but the tracking is sluggish and gestures don't work at all. Worked fine in Mavericks. Batteries @80%.
Re-pairing does NOT work for me. zaping PRAM does NOT work for me.
MacBook Pro (Retina, 15-inch, Early 2013)
2.7 GHz Intel Core i7
16 GB 1600 MHz DDR3
NVIDIA GeForce GT 650M 1024 MB
Is there a solution, patch? How can this be so terribly broken?

Hello,
The problem persist. I have this problem on a macbook pro 13" retina display. Upgraded to Yoseminte and big problem, my Apple Magic did not working anymore. After i replace batteries, restart mac, turn off turn on bluetooth several times, i connect the mouse. But guess what? After i close the lid and i go home, when open the mac again, surprise: NO MOUSE.
Please be serious and get an answer to this issue, both are your products, if APPLE products get errors of communications, what I should expect from others.
People buy Apple for commodity and for less number of problems, in fact Apple products are not so good as you think. So if you have problems like I cannot connect a mouse with a Macbook Pro, then Apple fail.
Guess what, in your Apple stores, people who maybe know some english, don't know to solve this problem, and they told me is a personal problem.
For sure I have personal problem with my mouse...
Thank you for testing Yoseminte before official Launch.
With respect,
Shanaki

Magic Mouse - worth it?

I use a mouse on occasion. Currently using a Bluetooth... cough... Microsoft mouse. Works well enough, but can be sluggish. I'm interested in the new Magic Mouse. Is it worth getting, it is responsive, any lag, yada yada yada?

I love it, but out of the box Apple should allow it to do more.
Download a program called BetterTouchTool and you can do 3 and 4 finger gestures, 2 and 3 finger clicks, as well as taps. The developer really did a great job with this program.
$70 is a lil' steep, but I'm so glad to not have a scroll ball anymore.
Otherwise to answer just your question, yes it is responsive and smooth. I do not notice any lag at all.

Magic Mouse non-linear movement

Hi,
I have an Apple Magic Mouse that came with my new Mac Pro. The mouse movement is highly non-linear with speed: the faster you move the mouse, the further the pointer moves. I find it difficult and frustrating to control the pointer with this type behavior.
There used to be an option to move with or without "acceleration", but I can't find it.
Is there a way to disable this "acceleration"?
Thanks!

I have been changing settings, changing mice, and trying to get used to it. It's not going to happen. For me, the pointer movement is too slow at the slow end and too fast at the fast end. Doesn't matter where I move the "Tracking Speed" slider, movement is sluggish then ridiculous. I need a "Acceleration" slider, or a checkbox to turn off acceleration all together.
I downloaded Tinker Tool, but there's nothing in there to modify mouse acceleration. Does anybody know of another third party utility that does allow user settings for mouse acceleration?
Thanks.

Magic Mouse Jittery

My Magic Mouse becomes very jittery and sluggish at times. It will bet working fine and then out of nowhere start lagging while I'm moving it around. I connect my older Mighty Mouse and it works fine with no sluggishness.
My system:
OSX 10.6.6
Mac Pro 8-Core (first gen)
16GB RAM
I've heard of bluetooth connectivity problems but this is only happening with the Magic Mouse so I wasn't sure if that meant it's not a BT problem.
Thanks!

I was having a similar issue - the mouse cursor kept jittering around, even when I wasn't touching the mouse. I tried everything in this thread - cleaning, different surfaces, changing batteries, moving it closer and further away, etc. Then I realized I had forgotten to unplug a different optical mouse. Once I unplugged it, the jitters stopped.
In addition to making sure you don't have other mouse tracking devices plugged in, check the list of connected Bluetooth devices to ensure your computer isn't accepting input from another mouse somewhere else.

Magic mouse horrible on G5???

I just finished pairing a new magic mouse I just got with my G5 dual 1.8 GHz, and not only the tracking is really slow, but it loses connection around every 30 seconds. Anyone else experienced this issue???

I have a G5 2009. Magic mouse, and all latest updates etc.
I too had the Magic Mouse quit working properly. The clicks and scroll would function, but the pointer barely moved. This followed a period of pleasure in perfect performance. If the mouse was brought close to the top or back of the tower, the pointer worked. Move it a foot in front, and the pointer quit or went very sluggish.
I gave up looking for a solution, and went the tethered mouse route.
Over the holidays I spent some more time in finding a solution, same old same old.
Today I stumbled upon a SOLUTION!
I SET MY MOUSE ON TOP OF A BOOK, WITH A FOIL COVER, AND THE POINTER CAME TO LIFE.
I used an aluminum cookie sheet, and it worked. So I've made a mouse pad from some sandpapered thin aluminum flashing material, spray glued to a 1/4 inch thick square of ply.
Aluminum foil didn't do it for me, which was counterintuitive, but the flashing is perfect.
Of course, you could stay with a book, or book cover.
Give it a try! If it works, let me know.

Magic Mouse lags

Dear community,
my Magic Mouse often starts to lag when transmitting the signal to my Mac. This results in a sluggish and unresponsive cursor. How can I fix it? I am using the mouse on a normal desk, no transparent or otherwise ineffective surface.
Thank you.

Frerk,
Here's an apple article on possible causes of interference:
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1365
Regards,
Captfred

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