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

I've been using my magic mouse for 3 years since I purchased my iMac, and have never had any issues with it. Since upgrading to Yosemite, much of the time (enough to be extremely annoying - 20% or so?), when scrolling down on a web page, the mouse reads the gesture as a swipe back instead of a scroll. I've attempted to hold the mouse at a different angle, which is uncomfortable and doesn't really help any in any case. Is there a way to recalibrate the gestures so that it re-learns what scrolling down looks like (and stops going to the previous page, gah!)? Another solution?

iMac, OS X Yosemite (10.10)

Posted on Jan 4, 2015 9:06 PM

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Posted on Jan 5, 2015 3:40 PM

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.

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Feb 3, 2015 2:11 PM in response to avalei

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).

Mar 4, 2015 11:42 AM in response to GaryHost11

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 😟)

Mar 7, 2015 2:54 PM in response to avalei

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...

Mar 9, 2015 12:28 PM in response to avalei

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.

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

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