Another product from the same company offered a pack that worked with the Magic Keyboard or Magic Trackpad too. There used to be a third-party solution for this, where you fit a battery-pack with a built-in inductive charging loop. Simply put your mouse on it when not in use, and it would be topped-up. It’s widely assumed the reason Apple didn’t do this is because Jony Ive prioritized aesthetics over functionality, and didn’t want a visible port spoiling the clean lines of the mouse.Īnother solution would be a wireless charging pad the same size as the mouse.
In that way, you can just plug in a charging cable and continue to use it exactly as you would a wired mouse. The obvious one, of course, is to put the charging point at the front of the mouse. There are five possible solutions to this …
But there’s one Magic Mouse problem so obvious and annoying, it’s become universally mocked: you can’t use the mouse while charging it. Apple’s Magic Mouse is both beautiful and clever in its functionality.
