Magic Mouse with Siri — image credit: mouse Apple, Siri composite: AppleInsider
A shaky rumor claims that Apple is prototyping a new Magic Mouse design for the Mac that’s more ergonomic — but which users will also be able to talk to.
It was back in 1986’s “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home” where Scotty picked up a Macintosh mouse and tried speaking into it. In 2026, goes the new rumor, that could happen for real.
This new claim follows a previous one that said a more ergonomic Magic Mouse 2 would be released in 2026, probably including moving the USB-C charging port from the bottom. Leaker yeux1122 agrees with all of that, but adds (in translation) that the design will fit “modern computing [needs] with a mixture of touch screen, voice command, and hand movement.”
Definitely something is lost in machine translation, but surely only vertical mice don’t already rely on hand movement. Then, too, the Magic Mouse has always been able to register touch gestures.
But it’s the claim that the Magic Mouse update will feature voice commands that seems the most problematic. It is true that using Siri on a Mac can be less convenient than on an iPhone, though, so perhaps there could be a Siri button on the mouse.
There’s a precedent for that as the Siri Remote for Apple TV 4K has such a button.
Yet even if Siri on the mouse parsed what was being said to it — perhaps with Apple Intelligence — it would then have to send that command to the Mac to be acted upon. There doesn’t seem to be an obvious advantage to having the voice command processing done by the device your hand is covering up.
Then, too, leaker yeux1122 also says that more than coming some time in 2026, the new mouse will debut that year alongside a new MacBook Pro. It’s been rumored before that the 2026 MacBook Pro will get a marked redesign, but it’s surely never going to abandon the trackpad.
Note that Yeux1122 has only a middling track record for accuracy. This latest claim appears to be mostly the leaker’s common “me too” report, following others who have said the same, but with the addition of this peculiar voice command detail.
