Apple needs to fix this one thing with the USB-C Magic Mouse

With nan iPhone 15 ditching nan dated Lighting larboard for USB-C charging, reports now declare Apple will update its catalog of accessories and peripherals pinch USB-C ports by adjacent year. This includes nan Magic Keyboard and Trackpad, nan modular AirPods, MagSafe chargers and more, according to Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman. If true, we’ll yet beryllium capable to complaint astir if not each Apple devices and peripherals pinch a USB-C cable.

The Apple Magic Mouse is besides ditching Lighting for USB-C. This instrumentality is celebrated among those who usage nan best MacBooks — arsenic I’ve personally witnessed astir nan office. This makes consciousness fixed nan Magic Mouse’s svelte lightweight creation and epic artillery life. Adding USB-C charging would service to make an already fantabulous rodent moreover better.

While USB-C charging for nan Magic Mouse would beryllium a invited update, there’s different characteristic that needs updating. If you usage Apple’s mouse, you astir apt already cognize what I’m going to opportunity considering it’s nan Magic Mouse’s biggest creation flaw. For nan Apple Magic Mouse to genuinely beryllium 1 of nan best mice, it needs to ditch nan charging larboard connected its underside.

A charging larboard connected nan underside? 

PC users moving Windows 11 connected nan best computers aliases best Windows laptops mightiness beryllium shocked to study that nan Apple Magic Mouse has a charging larboard connected its bottom. Full disclosure, I didn’t cognize either until I joined Tom’s Guide 2 years ago. Even now erstwhile I spot agency colleagues charging their Magic Mouse, I deliberation personification is playing a prank. For a institution that places specified value connected smart design, a charging larboard connected nan bottommost of a rodent seems wholly incongruous pinch that ethos.

Why can’t you complaint nan Magic Mouse from its beforehand for illustration astir different mice? There are respective theories, including 1 suggesting Apple purposely made nan rodent unusable while charging because keeping nan rodent plugged successful would make it little “magical.” But arsenic YouTube transmission Apple Explained says, that mentation is flimsy since you tin support nan Magic Keyboard plugged successful while utilizing it.

The original Magic Mouse released successful 2009 drew powerfulness from 2 AA batteries located connected nan bottom. When Apple updated to wireless charging successful 2015, it didn’t alteration nan artillery location — which seems to beryllium nan logic nan charging larboard is located nether nan mouse. Apple Explained believes Apple didn’t fuss updating nan battery’s location since it felt it didn’t request to. After all, 2 minutes of charging tin powerfulness nan rodent for astir 9 hours, according to Apple. In theory, you could complaint nan rodent while taking a bath break.

Even if nan mentation supra is true, it’s a mediocre excuse for retaining specified an awkward creation flaw. If nan iPhone 15 is yet getting pinch nan times and adding USB-C charging, I spot nary logic why Apple can’t redesign nan Magic Mouse truthful you tin complaint it from its beforehand for illustration each different wireless rodent connected nan market.

Will Apple hole nan Magic Mouse’s biggest issue? 

Apple hasn’t officially said it will redesign nan Magic Mouse aliases immoderate different peripheral successful its cataloge pinch USB-C charging. However, now that nan iPhone has dropped nan Lighting port, it’s reasonable to presume nan aforesaid will hap to nan company’s different devices — lest they tie further ire from nan EU who forced it to adopt USB-C charging for iPhones.

That being nan case, it won’t beryllium shocking erstwhile nan Magic Mouse gets USB-C charging. That’ll beryllium a invited change, particularly for those who nary longer want to support Lighting cables around. But if Apple ditches Lighting for USB-C connected a early Magic Mouse, nan institution should besides spell 1 measurement further and yet relocate nan charging larboard successful nan process.

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