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

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.

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.

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?

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.

Me too. Happens especially when webpages are still loading. It's a pain in the backside, as it's usually on those pages that are large/cluttered with ads/plugins. I find myself going forward and back a few times and then swearing at the whole thing before being hyper-careful about my scroll direction. This totally hasn't been an issue until recently, I don't know whether it was Yosemite or a mouse driver upgrade - I can't necessarily pin it to Yosemite, but it certainly wasn't like that when I first got the iMac (late 2014, whatever the smallest one is).

I have the same problem as described. It's been happening since Yosemite. I'm using Yosemite, Chrome and a Apple Magic Mouse. It almost has me convinced to switch to a different mouse and rule that out completely.

Although it's not a perfect fix, I found that if I hold my 2 fingers together tightly while swiping, the problem happens less frequently. Hopefully this prevents some people from tearing their hair out while Apple fixes the problem.

It also works if you put two fingers (2nd and third finger) on the mouse and scroll with just one of them (keeping the other in place). This is really highly annoying. I think though that Apple is not to blame here - the magic mouse works fine in most applications - there are only certain pieces of software which tend to misread the input from the mouse (adobe photoshop elements organizer is another example - scrolling through your photo library is just terrible with this mouse 😟)

Same here, noticed it on first day using "Yosemite" i have other machine which is running on lion 10.8 and its not that sensitive on scrolling

in first place i was thinking it can be mouse issue but its not, i did tested with other mouses and it does same sh*** horrible scrolling ... definitely ****** yosmite problem... i hope we will found out solution on that pretty soon...

I also have this problem. It helps if you reset the left/right swipe to be a two-fingered gesture. You have to be more deliberate when swiping, but at least you won't navigate off the page during one-finger scrolling.

Yeah, it's gotten worse lately, making filling in multi page forms almost impossible. To those who have said it's a Chrome issue, sorry, but I have this issue even worse in Safari. It's probably a system problem, made worse by one of the updates. Unfortunately, Apple got rid of the calibration steps that made sure the mouse matched your usage.

Yeah, it's a problem in both browsers for me. Chrome is a bit more severe. The best thing to do is switch the 'swipe between pages' setting to 'swipe left or right with two fingers'. That solves the problem for me, but I can't use two fingers to swipe between full screen apps. Then again, I never did.

Yes - this is especially infuriating because so many sites now have "endless scroll" where more content loads when you get to the bottom. Say you're several "scrolls" deep into a site, and the mouse goes BACK instead, you have to start over at the top.

Does anyone know if there's a fix - perhaps third party mouse gesture control app?