Using Magic Mouse 2 with Yosemite doesn't work...

An interesting phenomena...after trying to get it to work, the microsoft mouse I am using now has had its scrolling reverse. Up is down and down is up. Strange effect. But the Magic Mouse 2 is supposed to replace that mouse.

That's because touch surfaces (trackpad, MM top) in Apple use "natural scrolling" by default, you sort of drag the content – which happens to be the reverse to mouse wheel.

The scroll reversal happened to the Microsoft mouse I was using, even when the Magic Mouse 2 is not paired or active. I could not figure out how to reverse it as there is no access to the scroll direction in the system preferences anywhere. I have resorted to another app that allows control of the scroll direction. I think there is something that can be done as well vis the terminal window, but I've forgotten how to do that.

I presume this will all go away with an upgrade to El Capitan.

Well then. I guess the MM2 goes back into the box until we get El Capitan then.

Thankfully, I convinced them to let me keep the regular Magic Mouse until this gets fixed. 😀

Kind of sad they are leaving people out there in a lurch since their site no longer sells the Magic Mouse. You'll have to find it out in the wild and hope they don't dry up too soon.

Thanks for the response.

Thanks for your input. Unfortunately, since this is a Corporate Laptop, I can't just upgrade the OS, as much as I would like too. I have to wait for the appropriate teams to test and sign off on the OS before we can upgrade, which can take a lot of time (unfortunately).

Thanks though!

This is maddening. What's the logic? And which of Apple's customers could possibly be served by this?

Why would any company release an updated product that reduces the functionality of a system?

I do not understand.

Go to apple.com/feedback. This is a technical forum where we users attempt to help each other through established repair patterns. Apple only has employees as "moderators" to ensure we play by the rules. apple.com/feedback is where Apple listens. Perhaps with enough reports of "please make it work" Apple will assist.

In complete agreement with you. It's a tiny bit of work to make these peripherals compatible with OS X 10.9-10.10-10.11. This is something new for Apple, and it's a huge fail. Speaks to lack of customer focus. Also, people aren't upgrading to 10.11 for the very same reason we now can't upgrade our hardware -- the new products aren't working and playing with others reliably out of the box. So now, in addition to having to be wary when upgrading my OS so as not to use functionality or third party compatibility, I now have to apply the same cautiousness to peripherals. Another step backwards. Would the cost to make these products fully functional with at least Yosemite have been that great?

Yes I too have just about had it with apple. Arrogant and uncaring to their customers by releasing beta software and hardware as finished product and replacing good operating systems with trash (IMO). Any recent upgrade to OS X means headaches so bad its not worth it anymore. Stick with the old until it doesn't work anymore and throw it away I guess. Upgrading the iPhone is now as useful as throwing your phone away. The finally made iTunes so useless for me that I retired all my apple TV's and replaced them with ROKU boxes. Thank god for Plex. Sadly for apple it means Im no longer using iTunes so the loss in sales is significant. Microsoft rubbed off on them and not in a good way. Now a magic mouse that doesn't work as well as any basic mouse. I refuse to upgrade this macbook to whatever the new crap is called as its just not fast enough to run it. Completely uncaring company now. If you don't want to replace your hardware every 2 years they don't want you. I need the 17" macbook for the size but they don't make it anymore. Why did I pay for a premium mouse when a $10 mouse is more useful. They got me again. Tic Tok Apple.

I'm on EL Capitan and have the exact same issue.

The Magic Mouse panel is gone – no scrolling for me.

The best spare mouse to have where your equipment can accept it is a USB Mighty mouse. Instant, no charging and no fancy hand gestures.

I'll stick to my Kensington USB Trackball until the time is right for the Trackpad 2.

Internets say that is fairly simple:

defaults write -g com.apple.swipescrolldirection -bool FALSE

Does anyone know what the MM2 does that it cannot be supported under OS's older than 10.11?

Thanks!

No. It was an Apple corporate decision. We here are not party to such information.