Mac users, say goodbye to your Lightning cables: new Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad may finally be coming with a USB-C charging port

Apple is rumored to beryllium moving connected caller renditions of nan Magic Mouse, Magic Keyboard, and Magic Trackpad, which will finally person their Lightning charging ports replaced pinch USB-C - astatine least, according to immoderate codification recovered wrong nan caller iOS 18.1 update. The inclination of updating each devices pinch EU-compliant USB-C ports continues for Apple and its scope of hardware.

As immoderate personification of nan existent Magic Mouse will know, nan Lightning charging larboard is located straight connected nan underside, efficaciously making it unusable while nan peripheral is plugged in, on pinch a fewer different cons that you tin find successful our Apple Magic Mouse review present (which, FYI, opens pinch nan statement "Apple does not person a bully way grounds pinch mice"). While it presently isn’t imaginable to usage nan Magic Mouse while it is being charged, nan Magic Mouse 2 could present immoderate innovations.

As reported by MacRumors, not only will USB-C beryllium nan charging larboard for each nan aforementioned peripherals going forward, but nan Magic Mouse 2 successful peculiar could perchance characteristic this larboard successful a different location alternatively of nan widely-hated placement connected its base. The caller peripherals will astir apt get alongside Apple’s Mac M4 models, presently rumored to motorboat sometime this year. 

How could Apple amended nan Magic Mouse? Is USB-C a bully move?

Apple’s Magic Mouse launched successful 2009, making it conscionable complete a decade and a half old, and a plethora of Mac users person since opted for different mice depending connected their requirements and preferences. With a merchandise successful 2024 aliases 2025 connected nan horizon, galore will beryllium expecting enhancements wrong nan accessibility space, specified arsenic caller broadside buttons and greater power complete rodent pointer speeds without needing adjustments wrong macOS itself. 

Since different peripherals are typically tin of being utilized while charging (you know, for illustration immoderate sane designer would insist upon), it would beryllium awesome to spot Apple make a move successful this direction, allowing you to enactment progressive sloppy of a debased battery. The rumored alteration of nan charging larboard location whitethorn propose that charging while successful usage whitethorn so beryllium imaginable pinch nan Magic Mouse 2, and we should beryllium person to uncovering retired very soon. One imaginable replacement could beryllium a wireless charging rodent pad for illustration nan Logitech PowerPlay, but I'd beryllium amazed to spot Apple make specified a large leap. 

As for nan measurement towards USB-C, this is perfect for galore arsenic USB-C is edging person to becoming nan charging modular for devices successful nan UK, EU, and beyond. Across Windows PCs, MacBooks, phones, and location consoles, USB-C is highly utilized - truthful it's nary astonishment that Apple is moving distant from Lightning cables astatine last.