The Apple Magic Mouse hasn't had a user-replaceable battery since they updated it with the Lightning model in 2015.
Also, AirTags have a user-replaceable battery.
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Redesigned Magic Mouse With Touch and Voice Controls Reportedly Coming in 2026
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Also, AirTags have a user-replaceable battery.
Get the 3S when you can, its WAY better than the 2. Loved my 2, absolutely adored the 3 with the little thumb rest and everything. I really wish I was still using it but I ended up getting an MX Ergo a couple months ago cause of wrist issues with the regular mouse. I brought my 2 into work when I got the 3 at home, it's about 5 years old or so at this point, and the scroll wheel in it has started not working properly already. I had the guys in IT bring me an Ergo trackball to replace it heh.
Voice controls: we decided to make our mouse even more minimalistic. This time you don't even need the mouse!
I don't think anybody is arguing against voice control of your computer in general (using whatever sound sources you had configured) - just wondering why it would be a feature of a mouse - which is only really usable on a desk - not when you're pacing up and down giving a talk, not when you're sitting on a sofa, not when you're presenting from a sloping lectern...
Uh, no, just NO!
An Apple Mouse one talks to? No thank you!
Seems to me that this would violate privacy up and down and backwards in any office or public scenario, and even home..... Why would you want to speak to your mouse to direct it to certain locations and have your office mates or everyone in the coffee shop or library or even your own household all hearing just what you are doing?
Aside from that there would also be serious ADA (basically, disability accessibility) concerns regarding usability and such. Not everyone can speak at all or speak intelligibly. That makes voice-controlled anything really problematic. If Apple adds a microphone and speaking functions to a mouse they darned well better also ensure that people can still use it simply by touching and manually maneuvering, too!
Even at that, is privacy still guaranteed?
An Apple Mouse one talks to? No thank you!
Seems to me that this would violate privacy up and down and backwards in any office or public scenario, and even home..... Why would you want to speak to your mouse to direct it to certain locations and have your office mates or everyone in the coffee shop or library or even your own household all hearing just what you are doing?
Aside from that there would also be serious ADA (basically, disability accessibility) concerns regarding usability and such. Not everyone can speak at all or speak intelligibly. That makes voice-controlled anything really problematic. If Apple adds a microphone and speaking functions to a mouse they darned well better also ensure that people can still use it simply by touching and manually maneuvering, too!
Even at that, is privacy still guaranteed?
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Yep. And it'd still be awful for gaming even if the sensor didn't suck, because it physically can't register a left-click and right-click simultaneously. Yet I have a love-hate relationship with it because other things like the multi-touch gestures and scrolling feel are so nice. I'd love a modern, state-of-the-art Apple mouse with the Magic Mouse's multitouch capabilities.
Uhh, what? Magic Mouse hasn't had a user-replaceable battery since the version that used an AA cell, many years ago.
With acknowledgment that every single mouse they’ve made has at least some extremely loyal following, have they ever made a mouse that was loved by more people than those who hated it?
So… fixed this for you.
I can't imagine how voice control would be implemented in a mouse. If this is real, then I'll just have to wait and see.
That said, I alternate between three mice:
Each has its advantages; but every time I use the Anker or Logitech, after not too long I return to using the Apple mouse.
It works with my large hands and scrolls nicely (even in Excel). Overall it just feels really good to use.
The battery life isn't all that great, though. Charging is, of course, a minor pain. So it goes.
That said, I alternate between three mice:
Each has its advantages; but every time I use the Anker or Logitech, after not too long I return to using the Apple mouse.
It works with my large hands and scrolls nicely (even in Excel). Overall it just feels really good to use.
The battery life isn't all that great, though. Charging is, of course, a minor pain. So it goes.
You will click when it's say I found this on the web.
Agreed. This is at worst a tiny inconvenience that catches only those who have ignored numerous alerts reminding them to charge the thing. So why does this website harp on it incessantly? This very article burns through as many words whinging about the bloody charge port as it does reporting the rumors of a fundmental redesign of the device.
The MX Master has a thumb-operated horizontal scroll wheel.
If you like the Magic Mouse that’s fine, but for something like a mouse, people have different preferences so choice is good. There’s no problem unless Apple start artificially tying OS features like voice control to their own Magic peripherals. That’s just a sketchy rumour in this case, but it’s already the case with Touch ID on Magic keyboards.
Only Apple would take 2 years to design a mouse which would then have a tiny, niggling problem with the placement of something then update it 5 years later and NOT fix that one thing someone complained about.
Every one of us suffers at least a little bit from tunnel vision, only really recognizing the value of features which I personally think are useful. (As evidence, I offer up... the rest of this thread! Soooo many diverging opinions!)
So really, to fully grok why Apple in particular might want to add voice control to their mice, you only have to think about it from their point of view: What features are a priority to Apple right now? Personally, I think the answer becomes pretty obvious, once you set your mind into that track... it's Apple Intelligence. Which is to say, if Apple does put a mic in their new mouse, it'll almost certainly be primarily so that you can activate Siri and talk to the new Apple Intelligence engine.
This was admittedly an instance of my own tunnel vision. I still feel that a proper computer as an HTPC is a great solution... but if I were to take my own advice and view it from Apple's point of view, I'd have to agree that the AppleTV is their intended solution for that. So, bad example -- but nonetheless, it was really only intended as an example. The point was that a mic on a mouse gives the user the ability to talk to their Mac while eliminating the need to sit only a few feet away from it.
Fair. I would still argue that a scroll wheel is particularly important to gamers, though; offhand I cannot think of a computer game I've played in the past two decades which did not rely heavily upon it in some way.
Probably true of some people. Certainly not all, though; you only have to read through a thread like this one to discover the level of discontent with Apple's mice.
For real, can I just get a high dpi sensor? I don't mind the ergonomics of the mouse, and I don't even care that the charging port is on the bottom. But in order to get from one side of my screen the other I have to move the thing like 8 inches on the desk. And yes I have tried turning up the tracking speed. That's with the speed maxed out.
A mouse with touch controls! Imagine clicking, gestures, and scrolling - ON A MOUSE.
Mind blown.
Mind blown.
Gestures can be too easy to trigger. My Magic Mouse is constantly assuming I want to zoom in our out on a map when I don't.