Magic Mouse too Sensitive Under Mavericks

Honestly, how has this not been fixed yet? It's been over 5 months.

TrueValhalla wrote:

Honestly, how has this not been fixed yet? It's been over 5 months.

Nope not fixed yet! Rumor has it they have a microsoft team working on it. ( sarcasism honest, not true )

George in NY

If everyone here can report this issue to Apple https://bugreport.apple.com maybe the problem will get high enough up on their radar so they will prioritise this issue.

I installed MagicPrefs long time ago. It does not do anything to sort this issue, unless you define a narrower area of the mouse that is used for scrolling. This will sort of help, but then you have the issue that you have to move your finger far down on the mouse to scroll, and I just can't wrap my head around that, ending up trying to scroll and only the last part of my scroll gesture is registered. It is sort of a solution, but it is not a good solution.

What?? How the **** can they say that? It worked well under Mountain Lion, and that is not two years ago... Something has changed for worse since Mavericks!

Many, many have reported I am sure they are aware. Who knows why it remains unfixed? Since the new Apple computers come with magic mouse or trackpads they must work on those or their would be wholesale problems galore. Imagine paying Apple prices and gettig home and having to go buy a regular mouse. So that makes it a problem going from Lion to Mavericks, something left behind, conflicting with mouse and trackpads? Maybe they simply can't figure it out? Is it possible they just aren't good enough to figure it out? Maybe fixing it impacts something else and requires a lot of code change? Who knows, but what I do know that this is not isolated problem and they must certainly be aware of it! Just wish they would officially admit and advise.

George in NY

I had issue to a crazy extent. BUT, I got an Apple Trackpad. And since installing this, the mouse problem has gone. Although this shouldn't be the solution to spend yet more money on something you may necessarily not need, it has solved the issue.

That alone would make me happy.. if they simply said "we are aware of the problem and are working on a fix"

Check this out. After several tries, I got the cursor to click on the link you provided and this is what I got.

You must be a Registered Apple Developer to file bugs via Bug Reporter.

Register at https://developer.apple.com/programs/register/.

I'm very dissapointed. I've never had these kinds of issues with Mac. Also not happy with the latest iPhone downgrade.

I filed bug report which was immediately closed as a duplicate, and referred me to this issue. Apparently Apple has no intention of fixing this. Perhaps it's only manifesting on older versions of Magic Mouse and they don't have time to backport the fix?

Anyway, MagicPrefs gave me a satisfactory work around, but I don't like the fact that it's inserting itself in the input queue of my Mac. Not only because it slows things down a little, but it also has a high potential for malware abuse.

Oh well, time to upgrade this ol' Mac anyway. Windows 8.1 looks very actractive too me now 🙂

Just upgraded to Mavericks and am thoroughly annoyed with this issue. Even now, as I click the magic mouse, this page wiggles every time I click. I upgraded from Snow Leopard, and the magic mouse worked beautifully with that OS.

Just bought my first ever Mac less than 30 days ago, so it's all new kit. I have no point of reference for anything other than Windows. What people describe here is my problem too; a hyper-sensitive Magic Mouse. Very surprised there's no sensitivity setting for this. I get seasick looking at Chrome web pages!! There's a lot of juddering in Safari too, and sometimes I go back a page by accident through an inadvertent swipe.

Apart from reporting the issue, there's else that can be done? Sounds like it all worked fine in earlier versions of the OS...

You know I have been curious not to see owners of new machine not posting here. Noted that new machines come with magic mouse or track pad. I wondered do they work okay on new machines versus our older updated OS machines?

You shoudl still be covered under Apple Care warranty have you contacted them and if so what have they said concerning the problem? If you have an Apple Store or purchased from Apple store have you made contact with genious bar?

George in NY

Well, the whole Mac experience is so different that it's taken me a while to appreciate this behavior as uniquely irritating and try to fix it.

Based on the descriptions in this thread, I'm getting the exact experience everyone else is. Having said that, I think my (brand new) Mac came with Mountain Lion installed and I upgraded to Mavericks (for free) on day 1.

But I might call Apple Care and see what they say. That's a good idea. Or drop by my local Apple Store...

Have you checked the settings and any purple ? links on that page of Systems Preferences. I don't have Mountain Lion so yours may differ. You could try the inertia option.