Magic mouse 2 mouse lag on macbook pro 16" 2020

I'm having issues with my magic mouse lagging to the point of not being viable to work with. Anyone else have these issues. I've just updated to Catalina 10.15.7 - wasn't doing it before that.


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MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 10.15

Posted on Oct 6, 2020 8:17 AM

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Posted on Dec 6, 2020 3:13 AM

Hello everyone, I use a late 2016 touchbar MAcbook Pro with highest specs and I think I solved the issue. At least found out the reason. This Magic Mouse 2 lag thing happens due to interference with USB-C external peripherals somehow.


I am using a Dell U2518D as an external monitor and connected with USBC to DisplayPort Cable. I changed the USB-C port from right to the left side and lag ended. You can try different combinations if you have any external peripherals. It looks like, in my setup, right side of the USB-C ports on my mac does this interference. It hapened with a USB-C multi connection HUB as well.


Please try and share your findings. I really don't want to give up on my Magic Mouse 2 as I am used to it with many gestures.

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Nov 18, 2020 7:30 PM in response to hexstatic

We have 5 x MacBook Pro 16 inch machines and the mouse on all of them has become laggy (last 7 days max).


We tried changing mouse, rebooting, updating to Big Sur and the only thing that partially worked to improve the slow mouse was to increase our refresh rate on our 5k (49inch Phillips) screens. Somehow our screens dropped to 30 Hertz and we pushed them to 70 Hertz to find minor improvement with mouse moving speed.


Definitely an apple bug introduced and hopefully they get this fixed asap.

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