Check Apple Magic Keyboard Battery Level in macOS,Hacking Apple’s Magic Mouse to Fix Its Biggest Flaw

Apple’s Magic Keyboard combines a sleek design with a stable scissor mechanism beneath each key and a built-in rechargeable batterythat’s charged via the supplied Lightning to USB Cable, meaning you don’t have to mess about with replacing AA  Apple Keyboard Battery .The built-in battery is very long-lasting, and should power your keyboard for about a month or more between charges. If you’re unsure how much charge is left, you can check the battery level at any time within macOS. The following steps show you how .


Click the Apple symbol () in the menu bar, top-left corner of your Mac’s screen.SelecIf you don’t remember to check the batteries of your Apple keyboard, don’t worry – macOS will display a notification when the Apple Keyboard Battery  level falls to 10% or under.t System Settings….Select Keyboard in the side column.
Check the percentage level next to Magic Keyboard in the “My Devices” column. This is the percentage of battery life left.

You can also check the  Apple Keyboard Battery level percentage from the Bluetooth menu, which can be accessed via the Control Center in your menu bar. You should see the percentage next to your Apple Keyboard, listed under “Devices.”
Hacking Apple’s Magic Mouse to Fix Its Biggest Flaw


Originally released by Apple in 2009, the Magic Mouse was significantly different from previous designs. It’s sleek, low-profile, and has a touchpad on top for gesture operation. While the first generation, powered by two AAApple Mouse batteries, didn’t draw many reviews, the 2015 redesign drew a lot of harsh criticism, and worse, mostly due to the rechargeable battery and the battery that sits on top of it. The Lightning charging port on the bottom causes “magic mouse death syndrome” when you want to charge it. Since then, countless hackers have tried to fix Magic Mouse’s problems, with [Ivan Kuleshov]’s most recent attempt being perhaps the most straightforward, and possibly the most successful.


Essentially, the Magic Mouse has two major flaws: ergonomics and the worst placement of the charging port. Although 3D models and commercial products exist to alleviate the former problem, with some even adding wireless charging between mouse sessions, all attempts to relocate the charging port have failed because the Magic Mouse cannot be charged and used at the same time. . Also because of the way Apple designs circuits.


What’s different about [Ivan] is that, in addition to tweaking some existing 3D models of the Magic Mouse extension to his liking, he’s also solved the charging problem by eschewing Apple circuitry entirely and adding a USB-C port in the process. He also added a TP4056-based charging module that was soldered directly to the terminals of the Apple Magic Mouse battery, allowing it to be fully charged when plugged in. When experimenting on a live Magic Mouse, this resulted in a corresponding increase in the Apple Magic Mouse battery power reported in MacOS. At least more or less.

The 3D printed shell isn’t just a wrapper around the original mouse either, but splits the squat rodent into its upper and lower sections, so that the optical sensor isn’t suspended off the surface, while also keeping the touch-sensitive top section where it should be. According to [Ivan] the project files will be made available on his GitHub account in the near future.

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