No low battery alerts for Magic Mouse after macOS 26.0.1 update

Can you see the battery level of the Magic Mouse in the Bluetooth menu or System Settings > Bluetooth?

My Magic devices are all pretty well charged so I can't test notifications, but I do see the charge levels.

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There are probably many more pressing issues to worry about in the world than this one ... several "solutions" come to mind":

• I like Owl-53's suggestion, just check the battery level now and then and recharge when needed. How hard is that. Or VikingOSX's routine of charging whenever below 30%.
• One click on the Bluetooth icon shows battery level. Easy to check.
• Simply charge the mouse regularly, say every Sunday night
• Or do what I do ... keep an old Magic Mouse from a no longer utilized computer and charge it so there is always a fully charged "spare" when the "prime" one runs down, switch to the "spare" and charge the other one, which now becomes the new spare. I also have some wired mice I can use while the wireless one is charging.

MacOS Tahoe 26.* will alert you when the remaining battery percentage for the Magic Mouse II dwindles to 6 percent. Same story for the Magic Keyboard.

It is your responsibility to monitor the Bluetooth battery levels from the Bluetooth icon located in the Finder's menu extras location. Correspondingly, recharging the Magic Mouse II can be scheduled while you are either asleep, or not using your Mac. The Magic Keyboard can be charged while you are using it.

By example, when my Magic Mouse II charge level reaches about 30%, I recharge it overnight, or while I am out running errands. A simple scheduling matter.

++ 1 and thank you for the mention 👍

I keep a cheap Logitech wheel USB mouse at the ready/

I also keep a cheap MacAlly USB Keyboard at the ready

Not only when the mouse or keyboard goes flat pers se but for other reasons

Depends on how many devices you have. Also, for some reason my Magic Mouse is not showing up in the battery widget, yet there's a second generic Magic Trackpad in there (and the charge level doesn't match the Mouse). Odd. The Bluetooth icon in the menu bar does the trick for me.

Camelot wrote:

> To use the analogy

> Does one wait for the car to run out of fuel before they check the Fuel Gauge ?

To turn that around - most cars have an indicator light on their dashboard that illuminates when gas is low. Many people use (rely on?) that light as a trigger to refuel.

Additionally, every car I've ever driven has a permanently-visible fuel gauge so you can always see your fuel level.

The mouse dying with no warning, and you having to jump through hoops to find out its current charge is undeniably wrong. Add to that the brain-dead approach to the charge port which renders the mouse unusable during charging, and the advance warning is absolutely necessary.

$0.02

Turn it around all one what's to

It still comes down to the Individual to be responsible for there Own Actions or. in this, case In-Actions

Fobbing this off to an Alert, that who knows if or when it may or may not be removed

Sorry to disagree on this point, is just plain lazy to be too dependent on a machine to tell me to do this or that or not to do this or that

Yep, I have my Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, UPS, AirPods 4, AirPods 4 Case all in the desktop widget and can see the charges at a glance. Easy-Peasy.

But FWIW I do get low battery notifications on all of those in 26.1

I have a wired mouse as a backup when the Magic mouse dies or when the magic mouse needs charging.

Greeeeedo wrote:

If this notification bug has been fixed in the .1 update, this is great news and I'll be very happy.

My mouse is currently at 12%, so I look forward to receiving the low-battery warning fairly soon.

• I'm aware that I can monitor battery levels in the bluetooth dropdown, however the charge warning is so helpful if I happen to be deep in work and a charge is needed imminently.

• I know how to charge my devices and I have no complaints about that.

To use the analogy

Does one wait for the car to run out of fuel before they check the Fuel Gauge ?

dialabrain wrote:

I've reconnected a Magic Mouse 2 to my iMac to see how long it takes to get to 6%.

Well, it appears to have lost 1% in 2 hrs. So if I left it on and used it 24/7 it appears it will take almost 8 days to get to 6%. I'm not waiting that long to see if I get the warning. 🤷‍♂️

That 6% low battery alert has existed prior to Tahoe, so 26.1 has nothing to do with it.

I also wrote a LaunchAgent a few years back where I could determine how frequently it would automatically check for a low battery condition and the actual percentage threshold where I wanted a vivid dialog to pop onto the screen. I have not tested it recently though, and I only have Tahoe installed on my M4 Mac Mini Pro. It might work on Sequoia and Tahoe…

> To use the analogy

> Does one wait for the car to run out of fuel before they check the Fuel Gauge ?

To turn that around - most cars have an indicator light on their dashboard that illuminates when gas is low. Many people use (rely on?) that light as a trigger to refuel.

Additionally, every car I've ever driven has a permanently-visible fuel gauge so you can always see your fuel level.

The mouse dying with no warning, and you having to jump through hoops to find out its current charge is undeniably wrong. Add to that the brain-dead approach to the charge port which renders the mouse unusable during charging, and the advance warning is absolutely necessary.

$0.02

I also stopped getting low battery alerts on the Magic Mouse I use with my iPad Pro on the Magic Keyboard. I have to do it the old fashioned way now ... lol. I put the widget on my desktop and keep an eye on it.