Apple Magic mouse is widely regarded as one of the best mice for laptops. Anyone who has used a Mac for any time will appreciate the ease and comfort of using the Apple Magic Mouse.
Through the years, Apple has constantly updated the Magic Mouse to make it more effective than ever. This not only applies to those who use MacBook laptops, but also those who use it with their PC.
5 Apple Magic Mouse Tips
There are many features that apple magic mouse provides. Some of them are really beneficial to daily users of mac. These include Smart Zoom, Changing Mouse Acceleration, Opening Mission Control, Adding gestures.
To enable these features and gestures, you need to go to System Preferences then Mouse and check all the boxes to enable them on you magic mouse.
1. Smart Zoom
You can use the Smart Zoom feature by double tapping with a single finger to zoom in or out from a PDF, or a web page.
If you perform a smart zoom on an apple magic mouse, your mac or pc will perform zoom-in on the place where your pointer is staying. The smart zoom gestures works with almost all web browsers, PDFs, and pictures.
The mac will zoom-in about 50%. If you do the whole process again, means if you double tap with a single feature your screen will zoom-out from the zoom-in area. The smart zoom is really an easy shortcut to zoom in anywhere on your screen without using the keyboard.
2. Changing Mouse Acceleration
Mouse acceleration is normally known as mouse speed. It refers to the speed at which the cursor of the mouse moves on the screen. This also includes the time taken by the mouse during button press or double-click. We have the option to increase or decrease the mouse acceleration.
We can even disable mouse acceleration on mac. Disabling mouse acceleration needed when the cursor of the mouse disturbs during the gaming as it ruins the gaming experience.
Here's how you can increase or decrease mouse acceleration
In the Apple menu, go to System Preferences and select Mouse.
At the top of window, click on the Point & Click
Under Tracking Speed, the slider will work as tracking speed.
If you drag it to the right, it will increase tracking speed.
If you drag it to the left, it will decrease the tracking speed.
You should choose a normal level of tracking speed, as high tracking speed implies to make less movement of mouse to move the cursor and low tracking speed implies to increase movement of mouse to move the cursor.
3. Opening Mission Control
To open mission control on your mac, you can use apple magic mouse. Just double-tap with two fingers on your mouse to open mission control.
Most mac users are familiar with mission control and if you are using an apple mouse then that is way easy to access mission control. Apple magic mouse also provides a keyboard shortcut to open mission control and that is the F3 key of the keyboard.
Using the mission control, we can switch between different tasks and windows with one-hand motion. As windows that are open can get out of hand when we are working at pace, this gesture comes handy at this place as it allows us to access all windows in a double click with two fingers.
4. Adding More Gestures
Apple magic mouse also allows you to add more gestures to improve mouse acceleration and your productivity as well. This will also increase the efficiency of your work.
Here is how you can add more gestures to your apple Magic Mouse:
In system preferences, go to the Mouse section.
Find More Gestures and enable them.
These gestures include smart zoom, swiping left and right on your screen, mission control feature that we have already discussed above and enabling secondary (right-click) click on apple magic mouse.
5. Swipe to navigate
The apple magic mouse provides ease of navigation between pages of a book or pdf and between web pages. If you swipe left using a single finger you will be moved to the previous page and if you swipe towards right using a single finger you will be moved to the next page between pages of a book or pdf.
In the web browser, you can move forward or backward by swiping left or right respectively. This provides the ease of moving back and forward between web pages.
This also saves a bit of motion and a click when you are visiting a web page. Also, this gesture doesn't divert your focus to something else during research. As in the trackpad, to go forward or backward we need to move to the toolbar to perform a click.
Conclusion:
Now, you know most features of the apple magic mouse. It's a smaller device but yet the most powerful then all the other devices in this category. Its gestures increase the productivity and efficiency of the work.
