Fixing the Apple Magic Mouse 2 with a wi-fi charging ergonomic grip

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 wi-fi charging to Apple’s Magic Mouse 2. It’s like a little bit boot with a Lightning adapter tongue that plugs proper into your Magic Mouse’s underbelly. Better of all, it’s magnetic, making it good to be used with a MagSafe puck.

Does this factor completely damage the smooth Apple aesthetic? Completely! And I’m not even remotely satisfied by its cheap-feeling plastic that it’s going to last more than just a few months earlier than it simply stops working. But, by some means, it’s precisely what the Magic Mouse wants.

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 completely different firm names. Mine is branded Tatofy, however you could find it beneath model names like Zeehoo, Bluerin, or Superyofo. They’re all like 30 bucks, they usually’re nearly definitely all precisely the identical product.

The housing’s grip isn’t good. Wi-fi charging could be iffy typically, and the magnet could be very weak, so it’ll slip proper off of a MagSafe stand. And the place the underside a part of it meets the highest, there’s a large seam that loves to gather crud.

However these complaints are so minor. In truth, I’ve discovered myself utilizing my Magic Mouse at the least as typically as my Logitech MX Grasp 3 over the past month. And plunking it onto a close-by MagSafe puck once I’m achieved with it’s a a lot nicer expertise than digging out a Lightning cable each time it dies. However boy is it foolish that it’s come to this.

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 achieve this a lot felt like the long run, particularly subsequent to the Magic Trackpad, which continues to be the most effective trackpad within the tech world.

However in apply, it’s simply so very awkward. The mouse is low and flat, and I’ve by no means discovered a snug strategy to maintain it throughout use — do I lay my hand on it like an enormous, fleshy blanket? Maintain it on both facet with my fingertips? I do the latter, though my hand finally ends up cramping in consequence typically. And flipping the Magic Mouse over to cost has all the time felt foolish, even when it’s in the end not that inconvenient. As extra units undertake wi-fi charging or USB-C, it’s a minor annoyance having to maintain a Lightning cable close by. This grip fixes each of these issues.

Nonetheless, I feel this goofy shoe I’ve placed on my mouse is likely to be extra band-aid than a full repair. Yeah, it’s far more comfy, to me, than utilizing the Magic Mouse by itself, however its very existence is sort of an affront to decency after 15 years of just about the identical mouse — absolutely by now, Apple may have give you 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.