Vmars1983 wrote:
Not sure if this will work for everyone.
A simple short term solution that seems to work for me every time is....
Remove the Magic Mouse device from MacOS.
Log into boot camp. Go into Bluetooth devices and remove the mouse and then re- add it.
You will have to do this every time you restart into boot camp but it only takes a minute or so.
Youn will also have to reinstall the Magic Mouse when you log back into the Mac ( but you should be prompted to do this automatically)
That would have to depend on what it is you mean by “this will work”… People did come up with this before, and, whilst it does technically work, it is still very cumbersome indeed. As you’ve pointed out, you’d have to do it every time you’d want to use Boot Camp, and you’d have to do the remove; re-pair cycle on both MacOS and Windows upon leaving MacOS and booting into Windows; then again when the time comes to leave Windows and reboot MacOS.
You see, even me rephrasing it in this way makes it sound more cumbersome than I, and indeed anybody, would like. The sheer amount of hassle is way too much for me, and really shouldn’t be necessary. Prior to the two Windows updates mentioned multiple times in this thread, it wasn’t necessary at all; all devices would just play nicely with one another.
There really is no truly workable solution at the time, other than just using another mouse. If you so desire, you can choose to continue using the Magic Keyboard, because, most of the time, it will work just fine. But to be on the safe side, and indeed to not have to unpair; then re-pair the device if a connection dropout does occur, your best bet is to also use another keyboard with Windows, at least until either Microsoft or Apple come up with a fix.
Like I’ve pointed out before, a fix from Microsoft would be the more desirable scenario. Not only would that solve problems with peripherals by other manufacturers, should they exist, but it would also plainly be the way it ought to be, since their update was what broke it in the first place. Ironically, the update that botched it for Apple users has supposedly fixed some issues that arose when people used the Touch Keyboard on the Microsoft Surface series of devices.
