bluetooth Mice are unusable with mac mini m1
I asked this same question a year ago, and maybe convinced myself that the advice in that thread worked, or else I decided to live with it. Looks like I can't reply there though: magic mouse 2 lag with m1 mac mini - Apple Community, so I'm starting a new thread here.
My magic mouse 2 is at times unusable with my m1 mini. 80% of the time the tracking is fine, and it works great. the rest of the time, it's slow, laggy, and slow to catch up to motions i've made. This is the second magic mouse 2 that's had this issue, I bought a replacement thinking that it was perhaps an issue with the first mouse.
i've tried:
re-pairing the mouse
cleaning the optical sensor
turning off and on bluetooth
trashing the mouse preferences and re-pairing the mouse
turning off wifi (I'm on a hard wired connection to the internet/network)
putting my phone in airplane mode (I thought it maybe was interfering)
None of this works. I've also tried a second, non apple mouse, a logitech M720. It has similar symptoms. It uses an external bluetooth dongle, which I have connected through a USB3 hub.
My wired mouse works fine, but the way, but the way I'm set up, I would strongly prefer to use the bluetooth mouse (using a tiny standing desk several feet away from the computer and monitors.).
Any advice is greatly appreciated. I can't exactly haul this setup down to the genius bar to replicate it for them...
This feels like a software issue that apple hasn't yet fixed. I'm on big sur, 11.6.1. I *could* upgrade to monterey, but I fear that some of my software will not be compatible.
Thx
Geoff
Mac mini, macOS 11.6
