Bluetooth problem with OSX Yosemite: Magic Mouse and Keyboard

Hello everyone,


I've a problem on my MacBook Pro with Retina Display 13" (late 2013).

I've always used it plugged with an external monitor (I love double screen), magic mouse and bluetooth keyboard. On Mavericks everything was perfect with this setup.

Yesterday I installed OSX Yosemite and I've found a boring problem: my Magic Mouse and my Bluetooth Keyboard have a 0.5 second of latency, lag. This happen when the Macbook is not plugged with battery charger. When he is on charge, the problem don't exist.


I noticed this bug also on the public beta of this summer and submit the feedback.

I hoped that they fixed this before release but the bug is still here.


How can i solve this boring problem?

MacBook Pro (Retina, 13-inch, Late 2013), OS X Mavericks (10.9)

Posted on Oct 18, 2014 7:03 AM

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Jan 6, 2015 7:09 AM in response to fekimoki

fekimoki wrote:Workaround


  1. Click bluetooth on menubar, select your device and connect.
  2. Quickly press the wifi menu on menubar acting like you are searching/looking for available wifi connection.
  3. The bluetooth device will connect 😉
  4. I have 2 magicmouse. 1 in office, 1 in home. Found this trick while having trouble with them everyday.

Using 10.10.1 -- Being desperate after having no mouse for >3 days (resetting everything, removing BT preferences plists etc.etc) I tried the above steps and guess what. The SECOND my mouse pointer hovered over the wifi icon and it started to scan wifi networks "your mouse is now connected"..

Have not done any further investigations but for me this (temporary?) fix worked like a charm..


Potentially interesting: I also have 2 magic mice... 1 in the office and 1 at home..

Jan 6, 2015 9:56 AM in response to O00Dany00O

I just finally upgraded to Yosemite on my MBPro 15" Retina and ran into this issue with my magic trackpad. I did some testing and found this to be true in my case:

  1. This issue only presents itself when Safari is running. No Safari, no issues.
  2. If Safari is running, I can make the issue disappear for 1-3 minutes at a time by launching the Bluetooth Preference Pane and giving it focus. Then I go back to what I am doing until the issue rears its head again and then I give the BT PP focus again (i just leave it running).


I can reproduce both of these across reboots.


I have to assume this is a handoff related issue


Needless to say, #2 is annoying so I just don't run Safari.


Hope this helps people out there (are you listening Apple?), and please let me know if it does work for you too.

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