Magic Mouse doing "swipe back" when trying to scroll down post-Yosemite

Similar issue for me, and it appears to be intermittent. On some pages, when scrolling up via the Magic Mouse I get the "Swipe Back" behavior. This is a pain when completing forms and accidentally navigating away.

I just starting testing this and it's definitely intermittent. I'm using trello.com, and when inside a board or list, I can scroll up repeatedly, then start to get Swip Back when scrolling up. I've been noticing this behavior for a few weeks now, and just put it together that it may be the Yosemite upgrade.

Funny thing is it doesn't seem to happen for me on Apple.com.

This suddenly started happening with me too.

I'm still on 10.7

I am having the same exact issue. Glad to know it's not all just in my head! Would love to know if there's some way to fix this issue.

Yes, this is very frustrating. Magic Mouse has been working fine for many years. Once I upgraded to Yosemite, you have to be very precise about scrolling in a vertical manner on the mouse. Unfortunately, the way our hands are shaped, scrolling is usually done in a diagonal manner. I've also noticed this issue on my Macbook Pro's trackpad (also after upgrading to Yosemite). It's worth noting that I believe this issue mostly applies when the "natural scroll direction" is disabled.

My scroll direction is set to "natural" and I still encounter the problem.

This started happening for me after upgrading to Yosemite as well, it's driving me nuts. Glad I'm not the only one that has this issue, maybe it has a chance of getting fixed.

Got the same problem here. Really annoying... 😟

I have this problem too

Most common in Chrome

The workround for me is clicking in the whitespace of the webpage (i.e. focusing on) then the swipe back does not trigger

This is also happening to me on the Macbook Pro trackpad. I'm trying to be patient with it, but it does gets frustrating. It might not help that I'm left-handed, and my downward scrolling motion tends to go slightly diagonally to the left. But this definitely wasn't a problem at all before upgrading to Yosemite. I hope Apple has a fix for this soon!

I have been having the same exact issue. Tried all the items listed above as well. I thought it was the way I was using the mouse but it looks as though there is an issue, just frustrating. Any help Apple?

The same problem here. Very annoying. Seems like the sensitivity area on the mouse for scroll/swipe has changed and got very narrow for scrolling.

Same issue with OSX 10.9.5

Same with me. Chrome is a mess, and it seems once the accidental back/forward behavior starts, it gets even more sensitive. Moving the mouse around a little and carefully scrolling seems to get it back to its senses a little, but it's really tricky to get it not to back/forward at that point.

I've had this mouse with no problems since 2010 until recently. I'm don't remember if it started with Yosemite or late in Mavericks, but I'm pretty sure I had the problem slightly before Yosemite.

I found a workaround using the free app BetterTouchTool. I replaced Yosemite's swipe gestures with BetterTouchTool's gestures which are less sensitive to slight left/right angles. I did the following:

- Disabled the magic mouse swipe gestures in OS X preferences

- In BetterTouchTool I created two new gestures:

Single Finger Swipe Right >>> Mimic Standard Gestures -> 3F Swipe Right

Single Finger Swipe Left >>> Mimic Standard Gestures -> 3F Swipe Left

The main problems with this workaround I've found so far is that you lose the on-screen arrows that show you that you're about to activate the gesture. Also, you have to be very careful on a page with horizontal scrolling to avoid activating the gesture.