Is there a silent mouse for a Mac desktop?

While I am not a fan of any mouse, including the Apple Magic Mouse, is has a very quiet click.

It is not loud to me, but then again I was listening to loud Hard Rock in the 70’s and 80’s 😁

I actually prefer the Magic Trackpad. Its click is not very loud either, especially if you disable forced feedback. Also keeping in mind my misspent youth 🎸🙉

I just did some playing with the Magic Trackpad, and if you press on it, it does make a click noise, HOWEVER, if you enable "Tap to click", then you just have to touch it to get a click, and not press down. That is totally silent.

BobHarris wrote:

I just did some playing with the Magic Trackpad, and if you press on it, it does make a click noise, HOWEVER, if you enable "Tap to click", then you just have to touch it to get a click, and not press down. That is totally silent.

I have long used a similar configuration, with taps and gestures and no haptics, and yes, it is silent.

The click on press is haptics feedback and not a traditional mechanical click mechanism, and that can be disabled.

DDG for “Silent mouse for Mac” finds lots of info.

Here re some lists from that query:

• https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/smart-office/best-silent-mouse/
• https://www.logitech.com/en-us/shop/o/quiet-computer-mice

Magic Trackpad is silent too, if the macOS haptics setting is off.

akachman (Author)

Some makers offered roller-ball 'mice' instead of more pedestrian ones.

They were very quiet, never moved around; Ball would stay under your hand

- or more exactly, in Palm of your hand. The base kept Ball from running off!

This did tend to be heaver, to stay put ~ as palm rolled the ball in its base.

And when solid Ball did fall out of its Base, its weight hit the floor Hard!

The advanced touch-sensor Apple mice seem OK. Except for some users,

who seem to feel odd feedback from electronic sensors, in hand and wrist.

I believe the Apple Magic mouse is as quiet as they get.

Just ordered a Lenovo mouse that is supposed to be silent. We'll see in a couple days.

🤣 I don't know. It hasn't arrived yet.

We use this Logitech model with our Mac minis. We both wanted quiet mice, and both prefer simple mice with left and right buttons with a scroll wheel that can be assigned as a double click (I can't remember the last time I actually left-button double clicked on anything).

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01JPOLKDW?ref_=ppx_hzsearch_conn_dt_b_fed_asin_title_1&th=1

Compared to the many other mice I've used over the decades, it's quiet. Yes, you can still hear a click when you press a button, and the rasp of pretty much any scroll wheel, but they're both very muted.

BobHarris wrote:

I just did some playing with the Magic Trackpad, and if you press on it, it does make a click noise, HOWEVER, if you enable "Tap to click", then you just have to touch it to get a click, and not press down. That is totally silent.

MrHoffman wrote:

I have long used a similar configuration, with taps and gestures and no haptics, and yes, it is silent.

The click on press is haptics feedback and not a traditional mechanical click mechanism, and that can be disabled.

While I did have "Force click and haptic feedback" disabled, I DID NOT have "Quiet Click" enabled 😩

"Quiet Click" muffles the sounds if I press down on the Magic Trackpad. It can still hear it in a quiet room, and it is a lower frequency almost unnoticeable sound.

And "Tap to Click" it totally silent 🙉

Still waiting for dialabrain's Lenovo mouse report ⏱

The mouse is due sometime today.

Is the mouse due to arrive wearing two pair ultra-quiet roller skates?🤣

The one I ordered didn't make the list 😔

The mouse just arrived. Is it "silent"? Well, it's very, very quiet and certainly quieter than some others. But, clicking does make a small noise, although you best have good ears. 😎