Mark Gurman from Bloomberg lately reported that Apple shall be redesigning the Magic Mouse – for the primary time since its introduction in 2009. Within the mouses fifteen-year historical past, the design has remained principally the identical, in addition to the change from AA batteries to Lightning in 2015, and Lightning to USB-C in 2024.

Nonetheless, that’ll quickly be altering.

Cost port placement

One of many greatest critiques of the Magic Mouse has been the charging port. You need to plug it in from the underside to cost it, which additionally means you cant use your laptop whereas your mouse must recharge.

Some Magic Mouse defenders will say that that is higher in your battery well being, whereas others will say that you just’re realistically solely recharging it each 6 weeks, so it’s a nonissue. They might have an idea of a degree, however that doesn’t change the truth that it’s annoying.

Nonetheless, Gurman stories that this shall be altering with the next-gen Magic Mouse:

Apple is seeking to create one thing that’s extra related, whereas additionally fixing longstanding complaints — sure, together with the charging port difficulty.

So, someday within the close to future – this can not be a priority.

Ergonomics

We don’t have specifics on what the brand new Magic Mouse will really appear to be, aside from the truth that it’ll be utterly rethought, hopefully with higher ergonomics. Apple goals to make a mouse that matches in higher, maybe one thing much like an MX Grasp:

The excellent news is, there’s a brand new Magic Mouse within the works. I’m advised that Apple’s design staff has been prototyping variations of the accent in latest months, aiming to plot one thing that higher matches the trendy period.

In a computing world now infused with contact screens, voice instructions and hand gestures, the mouse isn’t as essential because it as soon as was.

Many Mac customers take pleasure in Logitech’s MX Grasp mouse due to its ergonomics and extra options, although you do lose out on a few of the multi-touch gestures that the Magic Mouse affords. It’d be cool to see Apple supply the very best of each worlds.

Launch date

The brand new Magic Mouse is in early improvement, and sure received’t see a launch till someday in 2026. Gurman says he “wouldn’t anticipate something within the subsequent 12 to 18 months.” Apple can be engaged on a redesigned MacBook Professional with OLED in 2026 – so we’ll doubtlessly see the 2 debut collectively.

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