The Apple Magic Mouse is a wireless mouse with a built-in battery that requires frequent charging. It can only be charged via a USB-C to Lightning Cable, similar to an iPhone or iPad. However, it cannot be charged and used simultaneously. The Lightning port is located on the bottom of the mouse, so you must turn it over and plug it in when needed.
The Magic Mouse is wireless and rechargeable, with an optimized foot design that allows it to glide smoothly across your desk. Its Multi-Touch surface allows for simple tasks. Most rechargeable wireless mice allow users to plug them in while charging, but Apple refuses to place a charging port anywhere but under the mouse.
The Magic Mouse 2 takes only two minutes to charge the batteries enough to last a 9-hour workday. However, if left plugged in overnight, Apple claims the batteries will last longer. The Magic Charger by Mobee Technology offers a wireless charger for the Magic Mouse, eliminating the need to replace batteries.
In conclusion, the Magic Mouse does not have native wireless charging capabilities. However, through wireless charging, users can charge their mouse quickly and wirelessly, and adjust the mouse’s height to prevent wrist fatigue.
📹 Why Apple’s Mouse Charges From The Bottom
This video explores why Apple designed the Magic Mouse to charge from the bottom, making it unusable while charging. The video debunks common theories and explains the practical reasons behind this design choice, highlighting the short charging time and the convenience of charging during brief breaks.
📹 How To Charge Your Mac’s Magic Mouse
The magic mouse is a wireless mouse with a built in battery that requires to be charged every now and then. Facebook: …
Won’t it look ugly on the desk while it is being charged, people who buy Apple products, at least 50% by for look, and that mouse charging looks ugly, is that the reason it,s called the magic mouse, because no apple will let anyone see it being charged? Hence the magic, none apple user never see having a topup?
I could see.. whatever apple makes there would always some fanboy website to back them up. I am an apple product user for 15 years. I could easily say this was a stupid design. 2 min charge for whole day!!! huh… i think this person never used old mouse. Over the time the charging is not efficient. Use this over few years and come back and make a article.
The use of lithium battery instead of AA batteries made this mouse a failure. I’ve had my Magic Mouse 1 for over 10 years and I’m sure it will last another 10 years. I want to see the Magic Mouse 2 battery life last that long. Apple made this mouse with degradation in mind. Even if it lasts 5 or 7 years, Apple GUARANTEES you’ll spend money again on a mouse. Apple products these days may be good, but they are increasingly designed to have a relatively limited shelf life.
A wireless mouse is dumb to begin with. Like you are using it whilst being far away from the screen. And besides it’s really a shit un-ergonomic mouse. Just admit it, it’s a total shit design. But to be honest, it’s not the worst of Apple…I have a Macbook here which is perfectly fine, but too old for Apple so I can’t update the OS anymore. No OS update, no more Chrome updates, so a useless piece of silver crap. One day Apple will have to pay for this scheme.
I don’t buy the argument about moving from batteries to rechargeables. The lithium batteries are a completely different shape, so they had to re-design the interior spaces of the mouse, and they had to redesign the entire back piece to remove the battery cover. They could have very easily decided to put the charge port on the top edge. Also they firmware-disabled the mouse when charging. You can only conclude that this is a DELIBERATE choice by apple to PREVENT you from using the mouse while charging. This is also why they haven’t “fixed” the problem. It’s a design choice. Everyone hates it. Even barring the issue of use of the mouse while charging, it’s the most god awful place to have to put your cable in, and leave the mouse upside down somewhere. This is a complete Apple Design Fail, and shows Apple’s disdain for customers. Their wireless keyboard also is appalling, and guaranteed to give you carpal tunnel problems like the mouse.
Yeah… until your mouse’s battery degrade and only hold 50% of charge it should. Yeah… if the computer is a ‘public’ computer in the company and anyone can use it but no one bother charging the mouse. Yeah… if your company has been working from home for a long time and when that one guy rush to the office and needed the mac computer immediately (for other stupid reason, cough xcode *cough*) upon reaching the office. Yeah… when you’re in the middle of a coding session, you suddenly found a solution to your problem that you have been stuck for 3 days and needed to use the mouse to operate the computer immediately before you forget your idea. Yeeeeeeaahh…. no issue here. FYI all of these scenario I just said already happen MANY times in my office.
“People complaining are probably people who don’t even use the product in the first place” Classic fanboi defense and 🙄 And if that’s really the reason why Apple don’t let me use my mouse while charging (Yes, I own the damn mouse myself) then is another instance of Apple telling me I’m wrong, like holding a phone with the left hand or such
They do it on purpose. Honestly tho Its a pretty dumb and inconsistent decision. Because some gaming mouse such as the corsair harpoon rgb can charge while being used. Charging it like that is pointless since people wants to continue using the same mouse. Might aswell just make switching out double AA like the first gen ngl fr
Unbelievable that there is even a article giving excuses for such a STUPID design choice. Because this is the only way to see it. Charging 2 minutes is not ok for 9 hours (trust me, I tried). Plus who said that I should be forced to stop working or go to… the bathroom when my mouse “dictates” me. You guys are unbelievable. I am marginally curious to see other articles of your website explaining Apple stupidity.
The excuse for apples charger placement is monumentally idiotic. Especially when apple positions themselves as a “it just makes sense why we did this”, despite creating the atrocity known as the butterfly keyboard. lets not forget when they designed the iphone 4 in such an idiotic way that the antennas would be overpowered by the user’s hand covering it. The original siri remote for the apple tv, that was a fun one, you wanna charge it? make sure you dont try to plug into the infrared blaster. The Airpods max smart case, I dont like how sennheiser has a proper off button for the momentum 3 but you can fold them closed i guess. Gen1 apple pencil.
Ah it makes me sick how Greg defends Apple😂 Greg, what aestheticity apple wanna show by not relocating the charging port? I agree that’s not a big issue but what’s the harm in redesigning it to just get rid of unnecessary inconvenience in the first place…ah I see, MORE CAPITAL USAGE IN ASSEMBLY LINE AND TOWARDS ENGINEERS..thats the harm on Apple’s end!😂
You don’t HAVE to be inconvenienced nearly as much if you use a better designed mouse. Accepting the lower standard of convenience of this magic mouse means unnecessarily accepting a lower standard of living and a lower quality of life. That’s illogical. Why do that? You should really expect better designed products, even from Apple.
Hi Greg, nicely put! Good to see some reality explained! As you suggest, it’s not a problem, the Mac tells you the battery is low, but not low enough crash stop and allows you to carry on working for some time! So simply charge it when you finish, or have a break or a call and it’s not a problem! Unless you need some hate to fuel your YouTube websiteling click bait numbers…. Of course? After all, everyone loves a bit of negative don’t they? (For some reason I can’t get my head around!) have a great day
The reasoning in this article is so cringey. “If you think this is bad design, you probably don’t even use the mouse.” Magic Mouse user here for YEARS. This is AWFUL design. “You have a useless mouse for just a little bit.” Having to choose between using this product and charging for ANY amount of time is AWFUL design! You even make that point with the keyboard. This article is the worst of fan-boy logic.
bad idea trying to justify bad product design. lets say the mouse runs out of battery when the boss comes in, that’s 2 minute loss of productivity… multiply this to all employees, lets say you have 500 employees in your massive company. 2minutes x 500 employees = 1000 minutes of lost productivity. lets say this happens daily for people to use as an excuse to not work. there are 240 business days in a year 1 year = 240 business days x 1000 minutes of lost productivity = 240,000 minutes or 4,000 hours or 500 business days or 2.08 business years (divide 500 business days lost of productivity with 240 business days per year). Thus every year you’ll lost 2 business years of productivity just because the mouse needs to recharge a day. for a company, that’s alot of wasted money. bosses have a hard time enforcing productive work behavior to maximize productivity by having quiet hours, telling people to start work strictly at 9am until 5pm. no fooling around, no perusal youtube while working. etc.
I bought this device 3 days ago. And danm this a bad choice of you want just a normal mouse for your pc/laptop. Only good thing in it is that you can easily enter mission control and swap between pages in browser/pages in desktop. But man, what a crappy sensor it has! It’s slow in mac on a highest speed, is inaccurate, it has low sensitivity… I didn’t expect THIS from an apple product. Every gaming mouse with dpi, that you can change manually and in half of price that apple wants for this MM, is so much better choice, than this “amazing” product. Such a disappointment… 😢
Bollox! This is crap. I bought one and get pissed off every few months when the battery runs out. Then I use my ancient cabled M$ mouse. This is an embarrassment to Apple and “design” in general. Anyone with half a brain would rule this out in seconds. Also when will Apple remove the ugly notch. Who “designed” this?1? Imagine Da Vinci finishes the Mona Lisa and then paints a black rectangle in the middle of her forehead. Now it is perfetto! NOT!! Perhaps they could have a cheaper laptop with no camera. I would rather have that than the notch.
Instead of Greg kissing apple’s a** in every article and BS-ing his way through. He should really call a spade a spade. How about they just move the charging port to the top and end the controversy? Simple enough, I don’t need him finding a million excuses to every single thing. Pretty sure he just makes defense strategies up for his YouTube articles. He literally has an excuse for every article. Without criticism where does innovation arise especially if you always have an excuse for everything?!
Nope, this is just lazy engineering, period. Fast charging is just to cover for the laziness at the end of the day, at the expense of reducing the life of the battery. Also, a recessed port, on the very bottom of the mouse, dragging on a possibly dirty surface is a great way to get the charge port gunked up and potentially wrecked.
Apple Explained is probably not an Apple Mouse user! Totally misses the point that if you forget to charge your mouse, you’re screwed. I could (and have done) buy a mouse for less than £10 and it have the ability to charge whilst in use. Stop making excuses for a super rich that cant be arsed to EASILY redesign its mouse. Apple are rich for a reason!!
why Apple still can’t make a good mouse after all of these yearswill still befuddle me. I can never understand why they have to put the charging port on the bottom. I know now that it charges quickly but if I want to keep it plugged in and use the mouse as a wired mouse, I should be able to do that if I want to! Also, why does the mouse and keyboard still use Lightning? I know that lightning is fine for charging but since even Apple is adding USB-C ports on more of their devices, just USB-C all the things already, I think the EU might actually force them to do so. At least their trackpads are the best ones you’ll ever encounter. Just get a trackpad or any mouse without an Apple logo on it if you have to use a mouse. Sorry, Apple’s mice is the one thing keeping me from going full on Apple fanboy. Like I can’t defend that!
Arguing that it’s okay because it’s not so bad isn’t an argument. I’m a fan of apple and love their security and privacy stance. I root for them all the time but cmon man… This was clearly a tooling issue to save money which is also why they don’t change the form factor of their iPhone barely ever. Changing tooling to produce a difference design is expensive. To claim they did it because it charges fast anyway doesn’t make it any less awkward and lame. How’s a little bit of unwanted smell? A little unwanted sex? Remember the shot gun reasons they had for removing the audio jack? One of which was for water resistance when the galaxy S5 was literally plastic and was IP68 dust and water proof? AND had a audio jack and replaceable battery and SD card? Remember when Samsung had the icon X? You probably don’t because they used those as prototypes to the current buds. They were the same thing but they took 5 years to perfect it including allowing the phone to split Bluetooth audio to multiple Bluetooth devices at once so you can share a movie with your wife. Apple added that in as an after thought years later and only for the air pods… Hmm… Weird right? Remmebwr when the galaxy S5 invented true tone? Look it up, simply search S5 true tone, but the “reality distortion field” got all tech media to pretend it was a defect no matter what Samsung or anyone else said. When Samsung dropped the audio jack they made sure you gained way more than you lost abd the fear of wearing out the one port was already even thought of back on the S5 when they introduced water proofing and introduced wireless charging at the same time.
The mouse is pretty bad. Between home and work I probably use 9-10 different mice on a weekly basis, and this apple mouse is the only one that makes me notice how uncomfortable it is to use. It’s also the only one that I’ve ever had to wait on while it charged. My old apple mouse from 2008 is also a pain, with its sticky little track ball, but at least I can swap rechargeables in a hurry and get on with my business. Stop apologizing for and explaining away dumb design choices.
Such a biased article and opinion. I’ve used magic mouse for 3 yrs. The charging port sucks. If it can be charged even in 5 minutes, it doesn’t justify this design choice. Support when Apple does innovative stuff but don’t be such a fanboy that you ignore usability and design disaster. For those who think Apple did this design in order to avoid people using it. Well, they could have done it via software and disabled the use while charging. BTW, another disaster to call out is the charging of Apple pencil gen 1.
No. it’s not coming from people who don’t use the products in the first place. I use these products. In the middle of a presentation or a meeting the mouse can give out and you’re stuck. Now take into account an aged mouse. Not brand new. The numbers you quoted are wrong for an older mouse. It’s a huge pain and something quite easily fixed by Apple. Your article is bollocks in defense of Apple on this. It’s piss-poor design. Plain and simple. (And laziness)
Out of touch with reality. That ‘2 mins for 9 hrs of battery’ spiel is optimistic marketing mind trick. As always with battery specs, the lab test had all variables controlled so everything was perfect for the longest battery life. End users will probably get much less in the real world and as they use it regularly the capacity will decrease, requiring more frequent charges. So it really is impractical and unacceptable. Left my magic mouse behind and went with Logitech’s MX Master series.