Unfortunately, you’ll still have to flip the new Magic Mouse upside-down to charge it.
It’s Lightning’s last stand: The new M4 iMacs Apple revealed today come with a choice of keyboards, mice, and trackpads that charge via the USB-C standard instead of Apple’s proprietary connector and which are also now available for separate purchase.
The (very) long-awaited news comes more than 9.5 years after Apple first introduced a MacBook that charged via USB-C, more than seven years after Apple shipped its first iMacs with USB-C ports, three-plus years since the debut of the first iPad with a USB-C port, and just over a year after the iPhone 15 dropped Lightning for USB-C.
Throughout that time, anybody using Apple’s Magic Mouse, Magic Trackpad or any of its Magic Keyboards needed a Lightning cable to recharge those devices. Which in the mouse’s case also meant having to pause using it because this rodent’s charging port is stashed on its underside.
(I’m typing this on a Magic Keyboard with Touch ID and Numeric Keypad that needed a recharge Friday morning, and it was as annoying as ever to have to fish out Apple’s USB-C-to-Lightning cable from a desk drawer instead of reaching for the USB-C cable plugged into my laptop or any of my other current charging cables.
