The Apple Magic Mouse is what you would receive if you chose a mouse over a trackpad for your Mac. Obviously, if you have a MacBook, the trackpad is likely already integrated into the device. However, if you purchased an iMac, MacMini, or MacStudio, you may have chosen a Magic Mouse.
Apple distributes a variety of Apple Magic Mouse models. You can purchase the white or black versions separately. However, they all have a touch-sensitive surface on the mouse. Therefore, it is not just a basic mouse that allows you to aim and select on the left or right side. You can perform actions without clicking by placing one or two fingertips on the Magic Mouse’s surface.
Magic Mouse Custom Settings
To configure your Magic Mouse, you would navigate to System Preferences or System Settings in macOS Ventura. Then, search for the settings for the mouse. You will see significantly fewer options than when using a trackpad. However, there are enough to require two separate displays.
1. Tracking Speed
You will see examples of whatever you are hovering over at the top of this page. Thus, if you hover over Tracking Speed, you will see an illustration of Tracking Speed. Here you can use the slider to slow down the tracking speed and observe how far the cursor moves. But if you move too quickly, the same measure of movement covers a considerable distance and accelerates. Therefore, if you proceed slowly, it does not travel as far. However, if you move rapidly, the ball travels further despite the fact that you moved the same distance on your workstation. Thus, you can select something precisely while also rapidly navigating to the opposite side of the screen.
2. Natural Scrolling
The next setting is for Natural Scrolling. So you actually use one finger on the surface of the trackpad to scroll. For instance, on a webpage, all you need to do is touch it with one finger and drag it up or down. Now you have it set to Natural Scrolling so when you move up, the contents of the webpage move up. When you move down, the contents of the webpage move down. This is built to be the same if you’re using a Touch Screen, say, on your iPhone or iPad. It works in the same manner. But if you turn Off Natural Scrolling then it works in the opposite way. This is the way mice, scroll wheels, and trackpads originally worked years ago on the Mac and still do, for the most part, on Windows. So now you go in the opposite direction to scroll. You can also scroll left and right using just a back-and-forth motion like that.
3. Secondary Click
Next comes ‘Secondary Click’, usually known as the right click. If the right side is selected, it is indeed a right-click. So, in the Finder, for instance, you can select something by clicking on the left side. However, if you click on the right side, the Context Menu or whatever the app does with a right-click or secondary click appears. You can modify this to utterly disable the feature. If you disable it, you can still access the Context Menu by clicking while holding the Control key on the keyboard. The benefit is that you can also click on the right side, which functions identically to a left-click. If you frequently activate the Context Menu by accident, you may want to disable this option and rely on holding down the Control key to display the Context Menu. If desired, you can transition to the left side of the mouse and make an ordinary click occur on the right side; the Context Menu will appear when you select the left side.
4. Smart Zoom
Smart Zoom option is now also available. So, if you turn that On and then navigate to a webpage, for example, you can see that it zooms in when you double-tap. You are not supposed to press firmly enough to actually click, just a fast tap.
5. Additional Gestures
Now, under Additional Gestures, you have multiple options. It is possible to swipe between pages by scrolling left or right with one finger, swiping left or right with two fingers, or swiping with one or two fingers. So let’s set it to Swipe with Two Fingers to the Left or Right. Suppose you are currently using Safari and you click on a link and then wish to return. Then, you would simply use two fingertips in this manner, and it would retreat. Two opposite fingertips point forward.
Now you can also swipe between applications in full-screen mode. In actuality, this term refers to Mission Control Desktops. Swipe Left and Right with Two Fingers. Therefore, you must avoid having it conflict with this. You can see that if I turn that On and this On, Swipe Between Pages is automatically turned Off. So let’s configure Mission Control with multiple desktops and Safari to display this desktop in full screen. Thus, you now have three distinct locations here. Desktop 1, Safari, and Desktop 2. Now, if you sweep with two fingers, you can move to the next space, then the next space, and then return to the previous one. If this switch is On, you can also activate Mission Control with a double-tap using two fingertips. This brings up Mission Control, and you can transition to one of these options.
There are actually additional mouse settings, but you won’t find them here. Instead, please visit Accessibility. Then, navigate to Motor and then Pointer Control. Then there are settings for the mouse and trackpad. This demonstrates your double-clicking quickness. Adjustable if you find yourself double-clicking a little too frequently. Additionally, if you select Mouse Options, you can completely disable Use Mouse for Scrolling. You can disable scrolling inertia as well. That acceleration is that. You may alter the navigation pace if you so choose.
