Mouse isn’t working with M1 Mac mini

[Philippe Chandless]

Good afternoon Smuggers,

I hope you had a lovely Christmas.

I have a Magic Mouse (the rechargeable one) which I use with my M1 Mac mini (running Monterey. This afternoon it has stopped working. I’ve rebooted the computer several times. All that happens is that I get as far as inputting the password. When I hit return the desktop appears with the cursor in the top left hand corner. When I move the mouse nothing happens. I’ve tried using a wireless trackpad I used to use years ago without success. As I can’t use the mouse I can’t get into control panels to check the Bluetooth settings.

Does anyone have any ideas?

Best wishes for the new year.
Philippe

[Stephen Watson]

Just to suggest the obvious 😉, is its battery charged?

Stephen

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[philippe chandless]

Hi Stephen, Thanks for the suggestion. I connected the mouse to my iPad and it works perfectly. It seems to me that the problem must be in the Mac mini.

Philippe

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[Sam - MacAmbulance]

Is bluetooth enabled on the Mini? Try an SMC reset, sometimes that resets the bluetooth controller

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[philippe chandless]

The SNC reset appears to have worked. About a minute after the desktop appeared the mouse began to work.

All the best for the new year and thanks for the suggestion.

Philippe

[Jason Davies]

ok, wait, wait. I wrote out a message saying to reset the SMC then saw all kinds of webpages saying that you can't reset the SMC on M1 machines, so discarded it and now see it worked;)

Do you mind saying what you actually did (eg hold down power button at start-up or leave it 30 seconds etc) because knowing we can sometimes get the same results as resetting SMC might be useful! Asking for an m1 Mac mini owner (me).

cheers,
Jason

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Cheers,

Jason

[philippe chandless]

Hi Jason,

I saw all those pages as well, and followed the instructions without success. I eventually found a site that suggested holding down shift, option and command whilst starting up the Mac. About a minute after booting up a message appeared briefly on the desktop saying the mouse had connected and it began to work perfectly.

Regards

Philippe

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[Jason Davies]

On 2 Jan 2022, at 21:01, philippe chandless wrote:

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> I saw all those pages as well, and followed the instructions without success. I eventually found a site that suggested holding down shift, option and command whilst starting up the Mac. About a minute after booting up a message appeared briefly on the desktop saying the mouse had connected and it began to work perfectly.

That's helpful, thank you. I wonder what it does?;) Given long enough, this will help me (or someone else I encounter with a similar issue), much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jason