Apple Magic Mouse, Trackpad, and Keyboard Are Finally Getting a Long-Awaited Refresh

According to immoderate codification recovered successful the iOS 18.1 merchandise campaigner (via MacRumors), Apple whitethorn soon motorboat caller versions of its infamous Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad, and Magic Keyboard. It’s astir damn time.

The codification references Magic Keyboard versions with and without Touch ID. There’s not overmuch intel connected the remainder of the features for these devices, but we cognize they’re all, astatine least, switching to Type-C charging, arsenic per the EU’s caller mandate. MacRumors predicts October for the 3 releases, alongside the upcoming M4 Mac lineup.

Apple’s Magic peripherals person consistently received dense disapproval for years now. The rodent is designed incredibly unintuitively, with the Lighting larboard connected its underside, retired of each places. This evidently makes recharging it a pain, and it’s absurd that you can’t usage it portion it’s being charged.

My idiosyncratic slightest favourite diagnostic connected the trackpad is the deficiency of travel. The fastener is ridiculously shallow, and the property is acold from satisfying. I usage my MacBook Air exclusively for speechmaking and writing, but I can’t adjacent ideate what a symptom this trackpad would beryllium for plan oregon editing software. Like the trackpad, the keys connected the Magic Keyboard besides deficiency question and are acold from snappy oregon clicky.

Various engineers person attempted to marque the Magic Mouse much ergonomic and user-friendly. To get it to recharge portion being used, Matty Benedetto, the feline down the celebrated YouTube transmission Unnecessary Inventions, erstwhile 3D-printed a lifter for the backmost of the Magic Mouse 2 that rolled astir connected a brace of metallic shot bearings. The lifter was expected to let the rodent to descent astir a table portion connected to a powerfulness source. Unfortunately, that failed.

Another celebrated engineer, Ivan Kuleshov, shared a prototype helium created for the rodent on X. He archetypal experimented with respective antithetic rodent enclosures and yet picked 1 that could recharge the rodent portion being used.

Also, let’s not hide that 1 hilarious clip with Apple CEO Tim Cook that went viral astir the 2024 Worldwide Developer Conference. Post-conference, erstwhile YouTuber Marques Brownlee, much commonly known arsenic MKBHD, sat down to person a one-on-one with the CEO and inquired astir the Magic Mouse, this is what Cook had to say:

The Magic Mouse. Uhhhhhhh. It was besides an unthinkable moment. Ummmmm. People don’t deliberation of that arsenic overmuch arsenic they would the Macbook Air and the iPad and immoderate other you’re going to sanction probably. Uhhhhhhh. But the, getting the ergonomics well, done – and uh – was key. Yeah.