Why Does My Magic Mouse Suddenly forget left from right?

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Why Does My Magic Mouse Suddenly forget left from right?

Have been using Magic Mouse for three years but in the past few months, a weird thing happens. All of a sudden, when I left-click, the contextual menu pops up as if I'm right-clicking.

There's almost no way to get rid of it. Anything I do, the contextual menu pops up, regardless of whether or not I'm left- or right-clicking.

I shut off the mouse for a minute and sometimes that helps.

In most cases, I abandon the thing and use my wired mouse.

Sometimes, I've changed the mouse batteries even though they should power at 50%.

There's no real consistency, though. A solution works one time and doesn't another time.

Is the circuitry in the mouse going bad?

Posted on Jun 26, 2013 4:51 PM

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ffiti

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Jun 28, 2013 5:12 PM in response to KatieOConnell

I'm guessing that "you're using it wrong". The way left- and right-click work on Magic Mouse (and Mighty Mouse) is it senses where your finger is while you click the one button. This means that for a right-click, you need to physically lift any fingers off the left side of the mouse, and press the button on the right side of the mouse.

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Jun 28, 2013 5:20 PM in response to ffiti

Thanks for that, but I somehow doubt that's the problem since I'm on my computer several hours per day, 7 days a week and this "mixed up mouse" situation happens only once in a great while - like once every three weeks or so.

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Jul 18, 2017 1:01 AM in response to KatieOConnell

Hi,

I am having the same issue, were you able to resolve it ? I would like to avoid having to replace it 😟

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