Magic Mouse keeps losing connection

Its the Phone!

I have been having the same problem......intermittently the mouse keeps dropping connection.

Keyboard is fine, Track pad is fine.......however the mouse keeps dropping the connection.

I was just about to log a call with Apple, then suddenly bingo I said to the boss has it been doing this in the week.....and the answer gave it away, NO.

Ok whats different, I turned my mobile phone off that sits on the same ink blotter and now its fine.

As for batteries as initially I was thinking the same, but that was a red herring, I was thinking ah the charge, its dropping down too quickly......I have GP ReCyko rechargeables upto 1000 and AA 2100mah NiMH and to be honest spot on.

And the plus side if you charge them, they do retain a high percentage of their charge in storage they say 90% for up to 12mths.

Anyway it was my phone N95

And the fact I have bluetooth turned on so that I can use it hands free with my TomTom when driving.....

Boo-yah! That was it for me, as well!

I have both an iPhone 4 and a Nexus S 4G sitting in charging stands, right in front of my mousing surface. I was thinking it was radio interference from somewhere, but I kept thinking it was due to 2.4 GHz Wi-Fi activity (I even switched my daughter's MacBook Pro to the 5GHz connection, thinking this was a contributing factor, and disabled Wi-Fi on my own MacBook Pro next to my desk). I stupidly never even considered the phones.

Turning off the Bluetooth radio on my phones cleared up the problem and my mouse is smooth as silk.

Folding paper into 2mm triangles...? That made me laugh out loud 😁

Been trying to fix this for months, maybe years. Adding paper worked for me. (Checking for bluetooth interference from the phone was obvious: turned that off months ago and mouse still kept disconnecting.) Am using Duracell rechargeable batteries which have also had varying fits in other appliances/units so will smile while making little paper triangles and laugh because they DO work.

Sorry... I wasn't trying to make fun of anyone; I think there are two, separate problems at work.

1. loose batteries, which should cause the mouse to completely disconnect - I have to believe that even a momentary loss of power shuts down the mouse and you loose the connection; so, good call on the battery solution;

2. irratic connection, which I attribute to radio interference at 2.4GHz, which presents not as a complete disconnect but as a 'stuttering' mouse cursor. While my mouse would sometimes disconnect completely, the larger problem for me was the jerky cursor behavior.

Interestingly, it had nothing to do with the BT radio on the Nexus S 4G - that was already disabled; it appeared to be entirely caused by the BT radio in my iPhone 4.

great - I had the same problem after changing brand of batteries - but the folded up piece of paper trick has worked a treat - thanks!

I had the same problem and I made of my own solution to it. It is very simple.

Using a Q-tip cotton swab, and break it in middle. put the two halves in between batteries with cotton side to two ends. Then close the lid, sound and tight. This prevent any small shaking when you move the mouse and cause the batteries losing contact.

Good luck and happy using Magic Mouse.

The piece of paper appears to have solved the problem for me too.

Purchased an APPLE Battery Charger Kit ( complete with 3 pairs of batteries ) after reading advice from many others regarding battery sizes and magic mouse connection being lost . Someone ( don't recall the name ) suggested this because their connection problem was solved with APPLE rechargables .

56ice

^ Connection proble has been solved . Guessing it does not really matter how long a charge is held because kit includes 3 pairs of batteries at what I consider a decent price @ $30 CDN . ( Delivered within less than 36 hrs ! )

56ice

But seriously an already over price magic mouse needs a paper to fix a problem now I need to look back at China .

My 'magic mouse' has just started doing this. Nothing has changed in my setup - the batteries I have used for 18 months (always worked before). I cannot believe that the almighty Apple kit (over priced and over here) really needs bits of paper and cottonbuds to make it work.

Laughable.

No... you are just holding it wrong.

Well thst makes sense.

Since I started using Energizer Ulitmate Lithium batteries, my cursor freeze issue went away.