I use an Apple Magic Mouse 2 a fair deal in tandem with a trackpad. Recently I've experienced some serious sluggishness/lagging in Mojave (I'm not running Catalina yet), and I've had great luck with the following fixes.
Fingers crossed 🤞 this works well for others with similar wireless mouse problems. (I've got a Magic Trackpad as well, but never experienced slowness or stuttering when using that for input. This is exclusive to the Magic Mouse.)
In this article, I will show you How to Fix Mouse & Keyboard Stuck Mac OS Mojave 10.14 on VirtualBox. Mac OS is one of the most popular operating systems for Macintosh. Which was published and developed by WWDC on 14 June 2018 for the public, Mac OS Mojave consists of different default Apps which are Finder, Facetime, Safari, App Store, IOS support, the Newly added mode is Dark mode and accent. I use an Apple Magic Mouse 2 a fair deal in tandem with a trackpad. Recently I've experienced some serious sluggishness/lagging in Mojave (I'm not running Catalina yet), and I've had great luck with the following fixes. Fingers crossed 🤞 this works well for others with similar wireless mouse problems. Fix Mouse & Keyboard Stuck on macOS Mojave. First things first, head to VirtualBox and stop macOS Mojave and turn off the virtual machine completely. Just click on Close button of VirtualBox at the top and choose Power off the machine. This is important! Otherwise this may not work. Related: How to Install VirtualBox Extension Pack.
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The first lesson: keep your mouse charged. Many reports of bad behavior relate to the device having a lower battery. Charge regularly and there's a good chance you'll be off to the races again. (And re-charge yourself, too. Read something, or take that short walk-around-the-block you always tell yourself you're going to take! 🤜🤛)
SteerMouse is an advanced utility for USB and Bluetooth mice. SteerMouse can assign various functions to buttons that Apple's software does not allow, including double-clicks, modifier clicks.
If you use a mouse pad: make sure your hand position isn't keeping the mouse too near to the top edge of the mousepad. Passing over any edge/threshold (for some optical sensors) can create confusion and cursor stutter, though it really seems to stand out with the Magic Mouse.
And for the 'under the hood' stuff: from a Lifewire article I came across, we've got:
...a number of preference files related to the mouse that could be causing the problem. As a result, you can [...] get rid of all of them, and let your Mac rebuild the preferences.
The culprits we're looking for are located in your ~/Library/Preferences folder. You'll want to delete the following:
com.apple.AppleMultitouchMouse.plistcom.apple.driver.AppleBluetoothMultitouch.mouse.plist
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Reboot to rebuild them, and (hopefully!) enjoy a smooth and snappy magic mouse experience!
Still experiencing problems? (Updated ~fall 2019)
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The fixes above prevent the lag for 90% of the time, but I still experience issues from time to time. I'm continuing to dig into this further and will update the article accordingly.
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