How to fix randomly stuck Magic Mouse after Sonoma M1 Pro update

Bluesteel310 wrote:

It's a software issue, not a hardware failure.

Please send a feedback to Apple.

Then revert to the old OS, or wait for a new OS update.

Oh, just disconnect your Magic Trackpad and reconnect it. Even better, if you also reboot your Mac.

Better send your Mac in for service. They have Magic Mouse there, and they'd check and let you know. If there's something wrong with your Mac, they'd repair it.😏

This is also happening to me and I don't use Magic mouse - just using laptops trackpad and it gets stuck randomly in any workspace, so to make it work again I need to somehow minimise the screen and then expand it again and then it starts to work for a while. It has to be something in this update because it was not the case before.

Chdsl, The point being when people invest the money they do in Apple products for their business or personal use then they should expect the same issues to come up after every major release!! Don't get me wrong I am invested in the whole Apple ecosystem both at Home and in my business as they make the best products for sure.... just a shame they keep making the same issue again and again.... I have no doubt it will be resolved in the near future in a discreet update with no mention of the error but in the meantime it is extremely frustrating.

You can't use"ifs" and "buts"...

It is not fair to blame the new OS.

If you've taken part of the Beta program, you wouldn't say things like that. You'd have caught the problem beforehand. Anyway, the mouse "problem" is how the user uses the accessory, not the OS problem.

There's nothing wrong with the Magic Mouse, neither with the in-built trackpad.

Seriously you just seem to be lacking the basic understanding of this issue....

To answer your question Nobody!!! BUT just like if someone bought a new car they would expect the engine to work.... IF someone did buy a new Mac, Or someone upgraded to the new shiny OS that Apple are promoting then it is not unreasonable to expect it to work as expect.

Anyway I will leave you to bumble through life. All the best

Hey chdsl! No one have to force us to use whats available on our system(Macbook) - the point is once update is out to main customers it should NOT create problems, instead it should fix them. I know Apple will fix this one at some point as MaxieMax mentioned, but currently at my programming job this is very frustrating as the tool(Macbook) we use is buggy which slows down our development process.

Neither the MacBook nor the new MacOS is buggy. It is your MacBook and/or your mouse/trackpad are faulty. It is how you use your devices. We here cannot correct the MacOS, for it is not open source. Contact Apple with your complains.

My MBP is 4 1/2 years old, went through few new MacOSs and still doing quite well with Sonoma 14.1 The internal trackpad, keyboard and the Magic Mouse doing very well too. I am going to by an external Magic Trackpad too in a few days, just for fun and for usage. And, by the way, I've never been a customer of Apple.

In a way, I am glad I didn't buy one, when I was tempted with such a low price and just 1 cycle in it, an unsold one at the shop. There are a few more such unsold M1 MacBooks still there. I just didn't want to be the experiment buying first-time-out-processor computer. I once had a Windows RT, lovely thing that never took off. After hearing all these complains here, I'll wait till M3 becomes mature, to change the present Intel MBP, that is, if it ever breaks down.

Magic Mouse is working without glitches. Everything is working well.

Robi Presotto wrote:

Btw I have multiple devices at home (3xMacBook, 1xiMac + 1xMacMini) and experiencing it only on my MacMini-M1 (the only one running Sonoma).

Well, that MacMini M1 is running Sonoma for ARM, while my MBP is running Sonoma for Intel. Two different Sonomas. Maybe, the Magic Mouse's software was written for Intel, it came so long ago. The Magic TYracpad also came a long time ago, in the Intel days.

Robi Presotto wrote:

But it was working just fine until Sonoma... why is the mouse? I have had this MacMini since its release and have NEVER had anything like it before.

You'd have to ask that question from yourself.

Like you said, it worked before, now with Sonoma (for ARM), it doesn't. It might be that Sonoma for ARM (for M1) is in conflict with Magic Mouse's software, which is surely had been written for Intel.

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It uses too much GPU and CPU, leaving the OS without resources for basic operations. The fix above does not fix the problem but helps to cope with the issue. My mouse still has issues sometimes in very random ways, but not as frequently as before, and also much less problematic.

Robi Presotto wrote:

It uses too much GPU and CPU, leaving the OS without resources for basic operations.

Safari uses too much resources?

I find it the lightest of them all. I have a few other web browsers, Vivaldi, Opera and some Mozilla based ones, but practically never use them now.

This is with more than 10 tabs open.

Just got myself also a Magic Trackpad 2 a few days ago. Now I have both, the Apple magic mouse and trackpad. It got connected quite simply and also works quite well. Both of them are used ones, even the MBP. The inbuilt trackpad is not that comfortable to use -- I have some wrist problems, so an external Magic Trackpad appears to be ideal. CPU load, energy load, while using both Magic devices is practically none.

In your case the energy load is terribly too high, so maybe you should show your Mac to an authorised technical service.