Any click in the Spotify app with Magic Mouse usually does not trigger at first time or second or third sometimes, it is always changing, it is absolutely random. The buttons look like that I'm clicked them, but nothing happens. However if I'm using my trackpad, it is always works fine. Every click works, every event triggered etc. Restart Computer. If the problem of right click not working on your computer is due to a minor software glitch, it should be fixed by restarting the computer. Restart your computer and see if you are able to access right-click contextual menu on your computer. One way to right click on a Mac is to press the Ctrl (or Control) key when you tap the mouse button, or the trackpad. Don’t confuse the Ctrl key with the Alt (or Option) key. IMac right click on magic mouse not working If your mac wireless mouse right click function has stopped working then this the solution for that.

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When my macbook is awoken from standby the trackpad moves the cursor around as normal but will not respond to a tap or a click. A restart won't get it working again, but a little later it will start working once more. At the moment I can't identify what gets it going, possibly by clicking using the magic mouse but can't be certain of that. Right click, however, doesn't work. The mouse interprets a right click with two fingers resting on the mouse as a left click. So I have to lift my index finger whenever I want to right click with my middle finger. This appears to be 'by design'. But the Mouse & Keyboard Center app does not give me an option to disable this 'feature'.

Your device isn't recognized by your Mac

Follow these steps if your mouse, keyboard, or trackpad isn't recognized by your Mac.

Make sure that your wireless mouse, keyboard, or trackpad is turned on

The Magic Mouse and Magic Mouse 2 have a slide switch on the bottom of the device. Slide the switch to turn on the device. On the Magic Mouse, the green LED briefly lights up. On the Magic Mouse 2, green coloring is visible beneath the switch.

The Magic Keyboard, Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, and Magic Trackpad 2 have a slide switch on the back edge of the device. Slide the switch to turn on the device (green coloring becomes visible). Earlier Apple Wireless Keyboard models have a power button on the right side of the device. Press the button and you see a green LED on the top of the device, near the button.

When you turn these devices on, they appear as connected in Bluetooth preferences and in the Bluetooth menu in your menu bar. If a device doesn't appear there, make sure it's charged or replace it batteries, and make sure it's been paired with your Mac.

Make sure that your device has been set up to work with your Mac

Learn how to pair your Magic Mouse 2, Magic Keyboard, Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, Magic Trackpad 2 and earlier models of Apple wireless devices with your Mac.

Make sure that Bluetooth is turned on

Use your Mac notebook's built-in trackpad or a USB mouse to choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Bluetooth. Make sure that Bluetooth is turned on.

Refer to the table below for more information on determining the Bluetooth status. If the Bluetooth icon doesn't appear, or if the menu bar status continues to indicate that Bluetooth is off, restart your computer and then try to turn Bluetooth on again.

Make sure that your devices are charged

Magic Mouse 2, Magic Keyboard, Magic Keyboard with Numeric Keypad, and Magic Trackpad 2 have built-in rechargeable batteries. You can charge these devices by connecting them to a Mac or a USB power adapter using a Lightning to USB Cable. For the fastest battery charging performance, be sure your device is switched on when connected to the Lightning to USB Cable.

To check the battery level of these devices, click the Bluetooth icon in your Mac's menu bar, then select your device by name. If the battery level of any device is low, recharge the device. If the device isn’t showing, make sure the device is turned using the steps outlined above.

Turn the device off and on

If your Apple wireless mouse, keyboard, or trackpad isn't recognized by your Mac after following the tips above, try turning the wireless device off, waiting a few seconds, and then turning it back on.

Your mouse or keyboard intermittently stops responding

• Click the mouse or trackpad or press a key on the keyboard to reconnect the device to the computer. It might take a moment for the device to respond.
• Check for wireless interference.

Your mouse doesn't scroll up or down or side to side

If you can't use your mouse to scroll through a web page or document, make sure that you're using the correct Multi-Touch gestures and have set up your scrolling speed preferences correctly.

Your mouse or trackpad doesn't track as expected

Apple Wireless Mouse, Magic Mouse, and Magic Mouse 2 can be used on most smooth surfaces. If tracking issues occur, try these options:

• Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Mouse. Set the ”Tracking speed” slider to adjust how fast the pointer moves as you move the mouse.
• Try using a different surface to see if tracking improves.
• Turn the mouse over and inspect the sensor window. Use compressed air to gently clean the sensor window if dust or debris is present.
• If multiple Bluetooth wireless devices are in use nearby, try turning them off one at a time to see if the issue improves.

Learn more what to do if your trackpad isn't tracking correctly.

Your keyboard has one or more keys that don't respond

Use the Keyboard Viewer to test whether the keyboard keys are responding correctly when they are pressed.

1. Choose Apple menu  > System Preferences, then click Keyboard.
2. Click the Input Sources tab.
3. Make sure that the keyboard language that you use is listed on the left side. If it's not, click the add button (+) and choose from the languages that appear.
4. Select the ”Show Input menu in menu bar” checkbox.
5. Click the Keyboard tab, then select ”Show keyboard and emoji viewers in menu bar” checkbox, if present.
6. From the Input menu in the menu bar, choose Show Keyboard Viewer. The Keyboard Viewer showing the keyboard layout appears on your display.
7. Type the key on the keyboard that doesn’t respond and see if the corresponding key highlights on the Keyboard Viewer. If it does, that key is functioning correctly.

If you enable the Mouse Keys feature, many keys might not respond as you expect. To turn off Mouse keys, choose Apple menu > System Preferences, then click Accessibility. Choose Mouse & Trackpad from the list on the left side, then then deselect the Enable Mouse Keys checkbox.

I have a version of this problem as well. I switched to using my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse with my left hand after breaking my right elbow this summer. I didn't reverse the buttons so that I can switch between hands easily. When I use my right hand, the mouse recognizes the right-click every time, but when I use my left hand, it only recognizes the right-click maybe 10% of the time with a normal hand position. Switching right-click to the middle button won't work for me as I use middle-button paste in X11 on a daily basis (though the original post is absolutely correct about the mouse recognizing the middle-click every time).
I have discovered that arching my fingers more and right-clicking with the tip of my finger rather than letting my hand rest across the whole mouse increases the accuracy of the right-click recognition to maybe 75%. Is this a case of the Mightly Mouse being too smart for its own good?

You are lifting your finger off the 'left' button before resting it on the 'right button, right? You cant have fingers touching both buttons on the Mighty Mouse and get a right click.
The Mighty Mouse is a cool idea, but I like to rest my fingers on the buttons, and found it annoying to use. I like my Logitech MX-700 better.
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I've found that as a left-handed user of the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, SteerMouse gives me the best control over the 'right'-click (actually left-click for us lefties).

Even for lefties, shouldn't you still call it a right-click, since 'right' refers to the left/right buttons on the mouse, not which hand you're using?

I've found that right-clicks work most consistently if you lift your index finger off the left side of the mouse beforehand.

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Remember that the Mighty Mouse doesn't actually have separate 'buttons' under that shiny shell. It has one 'button' and some sensors to detect where your fingers are placed so it can respond differently. See the bottom of this article for more details.

If you have any finger touching the left side (over the 'button' area), OS X will register a left click. It doesn't matter if you actually pressed the mouse with another finger on the right 'button'. To register a right click, you have to have NO finger on the left side of the mouse.

Here's the table for what happens when the mouse is clicked:

• no fingers on mouse: primary click
• one finger on left: primary click
• one finger on right: secondary click
• one finger on left and one finger on right: primary click

Try being more careful about your finger placement and see if your right click accuracy improves.

This seems like a good solution, but the Mouse preferences don't let me set the ball button as the secondary button...

Also not a choice on my Mouse preferences.
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I had my wireless mighty mouse changed and I've had no problems (with the right click) ever since. Apple is aware of the problem and they are willing to 'quietly' change the mouse.

I bought a Bluetooth Mighty Mouse and had significant problems right-clicking. I tried every possible combination of clicking (arching fingers, not touching mouse at all except for tip of right finger, multiple fingers, different fingers, entire length of finger, many different positions on right side of mouse, etc). Apple sent me a new mouse in exchange for mine, but it had same problem. I finally returned it.
At that time, I had not heard about the battery 'fix,' where you take the batteries out and then put them back in and the right-click works. I doubt this is the case, but does anyone have personal experience with this?
- Mike

extremely funny hint - without any instructions how did you get to make the change to the middle button - PLEASE, DO LET US KNOW - the only way i could find is by installing steermouse which messes up the way mouse moves...

sorry...as you can see below i forgot to mention that i used steermouse.
i've not had any problems with it.
i guess the solution offered below will work without steermouse but i've not tried it

Mine doesn't allow the ball to be configured as the secondary button either. I find this mouse much more form than function. I can only get the right button to work about 20% of the time, even when removing my whole hand and clicking with the index finger. I think I'll finally give up my $70 mouse and go back to my $20 Logictech.

Same boat -- I'm using my generic Kensington and generic Logitech (dollar store mouse!) instead of the mighty mice that came with my iMacs. I'm a lefty, but still use left-is-left and right-is-right (why do other lefties need to change this? freaks!), and the right click is too awkward. Yeah, justify it on the technology or not lifting a finger off the left button all you want, but it doesn't work the way I work, so back to the generic mice. Really, though, the only thing I miss is the horizontal scroll, but it's more important to properly right click.
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1. Close System Preferences.
2. In Finder, navigate to your ~Library/Preferences folder.
3. Make a backup copy of your com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist file.
4. Open your com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist file in Apple's Property List Editor (part of Dev Tools).
5. Click on the 'root' expansion triangle.
6. Change the value for 'Button3' to '2'.
7. Save, then Quit the Property List Editor.
8. Open System Preferences, Keyboard & Mouse panel, Mouse tab.
9. Click on the popup menu for any button EXCEPT the ball button, then click again (making no change).
10. Close the preferences panel.

My com.apple.driver.AppleHIDMouse.plist is a binary plist file, so I could not edit it in TextEdit.

This is a great hint. I tend to cuddle my mouse with several fingers, so I can never get the right button to work.

I had the same problem and took my finger off the left mouse button when right-clicking. Which, IMO, is a poor, clunky, unApple-like workaround. However, no matter what, you can't hit the left AND right button at the same time. Because of Apple's insistence to make the mouse look simpler and over design a way around a single problem introduced by the design they chose, I had to solve the problem they made by going out and buying a mouse.
It's a Razer, was expensive, and the company didn't stand behind its product when it broke, but (after buying one more) it's better than getting fragged over and over because you can't shoot and launch a grenade or dive and choose a target to attack at the same time.

I don't have a problem with right clicking on the Mighty Mouse. Why is it so hard (or, perhaps, anathema) for people with an index finger to click with that finger only, moving it to the left or to the right as need be? That's what I do, and I don't find it difficult at all. In fact, it's downright simple!

Please don't generalize your lack of problems to other people. I find it easier to use my index finger for left-click and middle finger for right-click because that's where those fingers naturally rest on the mouse. Using my index finger for right-click would be an awkward motion.

sorry. i forgot to mention in the hint that i used steermouse to change it to secondary click.
there are many utilities which offer this extra functionality.

No, you don't need SteerMouse, just the Dev Tools from Apple. See my earlier comment.

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I am a developer and use Eclipse A LOT. There is nothing about the Mac design that I do not like, but I think it is almost ridiculous that right click is seemlingly banned. It is not a bad idea.
And in any case, I cannot get the right click to work consistently. I have followed the replies on this thread, and even with only one finger on the right side of the MightMouse - I am no where near 10% of the time getting a successful context click. I admit I am new to macs, and I am truly all about them. I told my housemates earlier that I was hooked to developing with my new macbookpro. Today I got a mighty mouse (after being told that it was capable of the right click) please help me figure out a way to get a consistent right click!!
Thanks,
~Garg

I too use Eclipse on my Mac and have had no trouble at all with right clicking the mighty mouse.
My fingers are positioned at the top of the mouse, either side of the scroll ball. As mentioned previously, a right click is only recognised when the left side has no finger (ie source of mild electrical current!) near it.
Since I have two mighty mice for my two macs, the only problems I've had are sticky balls: Maybe your mouse is faulty?
I guess you could try breathing on the front of the mouse (like on a window in winter) too see if that improves the electrical conductivity...?

I was very frustrated on the inconstistant nature of the right click on the wireless mighty mouse. I have done many seaches and tried switching out the mouse with Apple, other software and not having pressure on the left side of the mouse without success. What finally worked for me is:
Go:
Macintosh HD
System
Library
Extentsions
Delete Files:
AppleADBMouse.kext
AppleHIDMouse.kext
My mouse (every thing about it including the scroll and right click) works very well. It does change the mouse preference panel back. Please note that I am not a Mac expert, just someone determined to find a solution to a mouse I like but the right click was driving me nuts.

Thanks Faith,
I followed your instructions and it worked like a charm, my RMB is back from the dead!

No pun intended, but I found that by re-pairing my Bluetooth Mighty Mouse, right-click was repaired. Not 100% reliable, but probably 80-90%.

I have the Bluetooth Mighty Mouse. A more reliable way to fix this issue is:
1. Power the Mighty Mouse down.
2. Remove the batteries.
3. Wait 10 seconds.
4. Insert batteries.
5. Power mouse on.
This fixed the issue for me. Right clicking is 10 times more accurate now.

Brilliant! This worked perfectly for me.
Thanks!

Incredibly, Schwie's advice to power the mouse down, removing the batteries and reinserting them worked for me.
Who would've thought! :)
Rene

Woops! It works for me! Great!!

Mac Mouse Left Click Not Working

�and not to denigrate those with issues, since I know how frustrating they can be, but I have just the opposite problem!
When I use a MM, I have a really hard time *not* triggering a right-click! And I've experienced this with several different computer/mouse combos, since I do a fair bit of Mac consulting. I've always wondered why, but for me, something about the way I hold the mouse causes me to trigger a right-click all the time. I have to really concentrate on clicking on the left side of the mouse to get a consistent primary click.
Weird, eh? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that I use a trackball on my computers, so I don't find mice in general very satisfactory.
It sounds to me like there are some software issues out there though.

My girlfriend and a couple of other people who have used my MM have had this problem. It makes it pretty much impossible to use for them! I suppose this is why right-clicking with the MM is disabled by default.
I noticed that these people hold the mouse closer to the bottom of the mouse and the index finger lies further to the right.

i have the solution, its quit simple, when you click on the right side of the mouse (right click) lift up your left finger ! Its a very sensible sensor that detect your finger on the left side of the mouse !!
Gr. Roy

For me I have to raise my left finger nearly 3/4 of an inch in order to get the mighty mouse to work right. Playing a game or doing something right requires lots of right lcicking quickly becomes painful.
I simply use a logitech mouse for my Mac mini and a targus mini mouse for my laptop. The mini mouse travels with me, most of the time, so if I find a mighty mouse i just swap them out.
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As others have noted above, a sure fix is:
Goto: store or website
Buy: a different, normal two-button mouse that doesn't try to pointlessly redefine how we use two-button mice
My current favorite is the Logitech LX-5 wireless optical mouse. Not too big, not too small, not too weird a shape, no extra buttons to get in the way. Has a scroll wheel that does horizontal scrolling too. $25 at Radio Shack, etc. Uses a transceiver on the end of a cable, not a little flash drive-style USB dongle as I would have preferred, but I'll live. Radio frequency it uses isn't 2.4 GHz, unlike some, so its signal doesn't get messed up when there's a wifi transmission happening in the room--with another mouse I've got, that uses 2.4 GHz, connected to a desktop Mac, its pointer becomes very jumpy when I'm downloading files over a wifi connection, using a laptop within a couple feet of the mouse.
You can also make mice noticeably lighter, by using lithium batteries.

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