My magic mouse jumps and drags all over the screen. I have made sure it is charged but it skips from one line to another, never in the same direction twice. The pointer will pop up in strange places or not at all. I have not tried a generic mouse, not sure that would help.
I have read all the fixes, restarted the mac, looked for bugs, changed mousepads, cleaned the bottom gently. Nothing has helped.
Has anyone found a solution?
MacBook Pro 16″, macOS 15.3
It sounds like you've already gone through many of the common troubleshooting steps; however, here are a few additional things you can try:
It sounds like you've already gone through many of the common troubleshooting steps; however, here are a few additional things you can try:
Thank you very much for your response. So far this morning I rebooted in Safe Mode (took some research again 😂), deleted the mouse, restarted without the mouse, added the mouse back in and have been using without the mouse pad on the butcher block top. I have a lot of work to do this morning so lets see how it goes. So far so good! m
Is that a brand new mouse? I'm new to Magic Mouse, and only after more than two years of this just rotting in my desk have I figured out the cause of this "brand new" mouse not scrolling properly. It was the advanced setting that was enabled: pointer acceleration. Try to disable that and see if that solves it. Was your mouse working fine before? Maybe there was a change in setting, or maybe it's another issue.
settings > mouse > advance > Pointer acceleration: turn this off.
Hey there, Check out my response above 🤗. It truly boiled down to loosing the mouse pad! Now granted I haven't tried going back to work on my portable desk. It has a built in mouse pad. But here at my home office desk which is plain butcher block, it works just fine so far after all those other steps and no mouse pad. Who knew?!🤔🥳
Jumpy magic mouse is everywhere!
