Q: Magic Mouse too Sensitive Under Mavericks

chiming in, too snestive. will screw around with the settings but it's prob. a waste of time. the second finger resting on the mouse when clicking pointing or scrolling with the first is the culprit but, that's the way we mouse.

glad to find out it wasn't just me.

Come on Apple, I have $140 worth of paperweights in my magic mouse and my magic track pad. FIX this please!!!

George in NY

I submitted as well with my screencast of the issue. HOPEFULLY other people will submit this too because they aren't going to look at it unless people make a stink! It's really making it darn hard to deal with designing

I am having the same problem. It's as if the Trackpad has become hypersensitive and has a mind of its own.

Add my voice to the growing list of folks who have noticed this issue.  I can't tell you how many times I've clicked the wrong link because the screen scrolls on me just as I'm trying to click!

This whole Mavericks upgrade was an unmitigated disaster.  My wireless is a mess, I can't boot into safe mode, and, now, this.  I feel like a chump for trusting Apple to get it right! :-(

Uncle!

The unplanned flying scroll/zoom/click has become untenable for me.  About the only thing I didn't try was grounding my mousing hand.

The Magic Mouse is an amazing piece of engineering, but the ability to adjust touch sensitivty would be great.  A separate preference panel or even a free-standing app would be fine.  Just something to turn it down.  Alas, we're not there yet.  Hopefully soon.

For now, I'll use something a little more conventional.

Tried a Logitech, but the drivers were kinda shaky.  The other major vendor of mainstream rodents, MS, didn't have anything that really fit the bill for me.  So I started looking into less mainstream offerings, gaming mice, and found the Thermaltake Level 10M.  Only took a little bit to figure out how to create keystroke macros and assign them to buttons, and peace has once again settled in.

Ken...

Ken, Glad you found s suitable solution for you for now but Apple still has to get it's butt in gear on fixing this issue. This is a large issue for many. In my case I am not happy about having two $69 paperweights! I can only hope that they do have this on their radar and are working diligently to correct whatever it is they broke with Maverick.

How about an Apple spokesman at least addressing the issue here in the forums? With over 3000 views there is obviously some attention being paid to this issue.

George in NY - using my old logitec optical mouse in place of $138 worth of paperweights, magic mouse and magic trackpad. The magic has worn off APPLE

@Georgeny and @Kbcons

PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE submit a proper bug report for this. The more people submit a bug report, the more likely this is to be addressed. http://bugreport.apple.com

Frankly, I can not believe that it hasn't already been patched or at least addressed!!!! It's ridiculous!e in ad

I also gave in and switched to me old "wireless" mouse which requires a stupid USB base plugged in to the computer. I am NOT AT ALL HAPPY ABOUT THIS but it's literally made it impossible to work with.

I have submitted two in past already, one for magic mouse one for magic trackpad! It is obvious from the number of comments and views that this is the most viewed problem with Maverick since it came out. They must be well aware by now. Eother a tough fix or they just don't care?

George in NY

Not sure if this will help anyone as it seems that most users are trying to reduce the sensitivity of the mouse rather than disable the scrolling functionality. However my issue was that I wanted to disable the scrolling on the mouse all together, but could not find that option in the mouse preferences. What I did find is that you can disable the scrolling on the mouse by going to Accessibility > Mouse & Trackpad > Mouse Options and then uncheck scrolling. NOw I don't have to buy a new USB mouse and can use my mighty mouse without the scrolling. Much easier to design without my artboard moving up down the whole time.

Hope this helps!

Appreciate the thought and glad it works out for you. In my case I just blew the dust off my magic trackpad and before I could so much put my fingers upon it dialog boxes were opening, things were clicking. OFF!!! Back to it's paperweight position until Apple fixes what it BROKE!

George in NY - feel like I am back in the clutches of Microsoft.

jplener wrote:

 

Same here! When I scroll a webpage or a document and then want to click a link or select something, in many cases the scrolling continues a few pixels, before executing the click. So I miss the link or the selection is wrong. This is a system wide behaviour, happening in all applications.

 

Add me to the list.   I've only ever used a Magic Mouse with Mavericks, so don't have a point of comparison since I just moved from an older iMac running Lion with a wired Apple mouse.   But this "uncommanded scrolling" is maddening!

I have an appointment at my Genius Bar to get a new Magic Mouse tomorrow- but now I suspect it won't make a difference.

Dave

FWIW...I went to the Apple Store today and duplicated this issue on every single one of the iMacs that I tried. I guess some people just don't mind it???? 

Dave

I honestly think that people either think it's their mouse so they switch it out OR they don't do enough stuff with their computers to know the difference. Its the single most infuriating things in the world.

That said, its not EVERY computer because my husband's imac is fine, which is weird.

To Jedi and others, in accessibility>mouse and trackpad>mouse options>scrolling is checked, scroll speed is 3 of 7 but use without inertia has solved my jumpy mouse issues. Hope this helps