Unreliable Magic Mouse Bluetooth

Phil Ward

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Oct 23, 2020, 9:08:54 AM10/23/20

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Afternoon all.

My Magic Mouse keeps losing Bluetooth connection to my Mac Mini (2018). The mouse has new batteries in it (and there’s no low battery warning). It’ll disconnect every now and then (sometimes a few times every hour) but can be easily reconnected from the Bluetooth menu (using an ancient wired USB mouse I keep connected for this very purpose). Anyway, it’s very annoying. Anybody any idea what’s causing it and how to fix it?

Cheers
Phil

PS. The Bluetooth keyboard is fine.

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Martin Bruton

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Oct 23, 2020, 9:17:42 AM10/23/20

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Strangely I’m getting a similar issue with my new iMac. After going to sleep it won’t connect via Bluetooth when woken with either my Logitech mouse or keyboard. I have to plug in an old wired Apple keyboard to enter the initial screen password and then Bluetooth works as normal

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Jason Kitcat

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Oct 23, 2020, 9:50:19 AM10/23/20

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I’m having similar issues with a 2017 MacBook pro. Very annoying!

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> Strangely I’m getting a similar issue with my new iMac. After going to sleep it won’t connect via Bluetooth when woken with either my Logitech mouse or keyboard. I have to plug in an old wired Apple keyboard to enter the initial screen password and then Bluetooth works as normal

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Phil Ward

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Oct 23, 2020, 10:28:13 AM10/23/20

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I just found this:

https://www.lifewire.com/fix-magic-mouse-disconnect-problems-2260761

Haven’t tried any of it yet though.

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Oct 23, 2020, 10:53:47 AM10/23/20

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Oh yes, been there and still there. It's very annoying. It turned out for me that other peripherals (dongles, older monitors etc) were causing interference it seemed. Unproven scientifically, but improved with changes to location etc.

I'm not convinced BT is ever reliable enough for input devices but...

Jason Davies

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Oct 23, 2020, 10:59:22 AM10/23/20

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That link has some good tips but before you start messing with silver foil, I've resolved things like this in the past by resetting SMC (I'd do this after all other software fixes mentioned).

Cheers,
Jason

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