Fixing the Apple Magic Mouse 2 with a wireless charging ergonomic grip

(*2*)This previous Christmas, there was a field in my stocking that held one thing I had half-jokingly added to my wishlist: an “ergonomic” grip that raises, widens, and provides wireless charging to Apple’s Magic Mouse 2. It’s like a little boot with a Lightning adapter tongue that plugs proper into your Magic Mouse’s underbelly. Best of all, it’s magnetic, making it good to be used with a MagSafe puck.

(*2*)Does this factor completely wreck the modern Apple aesthetic? Absolutely! And I’m not even remotely satisfied by its cheap-feeling plastic that it’s going to last more than a few months earlier than it simply stops working. Yet, by some means, it’s precisely what the Magic Mouse wants.

(*2*)What it’s known as doesn’t actually matter, as a result of this isn’t a product any firm you’ve ever heard of makes — as an alternative, it confirmed up on Amazon, seemingly round August or so, beneath a number of totally different firm names. Mine is branded Tatofy, however yow will discover it beneath model names like Zeehoo, Bluerin, or Superyofo. They’re all like 30 bucks, and so they’re nearly definitely all precisely the similar product.

(*2*)The housing’s grip isn’t good. Wireless charging will be iffy generally, and the magnet may be very weak, so it’ll slip proper off of a MagSafe stand. And the place the backside a part of it meets the high, there’s a big seam that loves to gather crud.

(*2*)But these complaints are so minor. In reality, I’ve discovered myself utilizing my Magic Mouse at the least as typically as my Logitech MX Master 3 over the final month. And plunking it onto a close by MagSafe puck once I’m carried out with it’s a a lot nicer expertise than digging out a Lightning cable each time it dies. But boy is it foolish that it’s come to this.

(*2*)When the Magic Mouse got here out, I used to be genuinely enamored with the multitouch floor that did all these various things utilizing swipes and faucets. This single, curved sheet of clear plastic that would accomplish that a lot felt like the future, particularly subsequent to the Magic Trackpad, which remains to be the greatest trackpad in the tech world.

(*2*)But in observe, it’s simply so very awkward. The mouse is low and flat, and I’ve by no means discovered a snug technique to maintain it throughout use — do I lay my hand on it like a large, fleshy blanket? Hold it on both facet with my fingertips? I do the latter, though my hand finally ends up cramping as a consequence generally. And flipping the Magic Mouse over to cost has at all times felt foolish, even when it’s finally not that inconvenient. As extra units undertake wireless charging or USB-C, it’s a minor annoyance having to maintain a Lightning cable close by. This grip fixes each of these issues.

(*2*)Still, I feel this goofy shoe I’ve placed on my mouse could be extra band-aid than a full repair. Yeah, it’s far more snug, to me, than utilizing the Magic Mouse by itself, however its very existence is nearly an affront to decency after 15 years of just about the similar mouse — absolutely by now, Apple may have come up with one thing extra sensible. And but, right here is my Magic Mouse, simply hanging out in a shoe, by some means each higher and worse than it ever was.