Before, you could buy your iMac with a color-matched Magic Mouse and Trackpad; Now, it is the mouse or trackpad.
You used to be able to purchase an iMac with a color-matched Magic Mouse and Magic Trackpad, but this has changed slightly with the latest M4 iMacs.
People noted on Reddit that Apple’s online store no longer offers the option to configure M4-powered iMacs with both the Magic Mouse AND Magic Trackpad. Instead, you must choose between either the mouse OR the trackpad.
Ever since the iMac got infused with a series of color options and swapped Intel for Apple silicon, the all-in-one has shipped with color-matched Magic accessories. That hasn’t changed, but it’s now much trickier, if not downright impossible, to get both the mouse and trackpad to match the color of your iMac.
M4 iMacs no longer ship with either Magic Trackpad or Mouse, but not both
You may think, “No worries, I’ll just pick one of these separately in the color of my iMac,” but you’d be mistaken because Apple has never offered standalone Magic accessories in any color other than the standard silver and space gray.
So, if you’ve picked a blue M4 iMac and configured it in the online store with a Magic Keyboard and Mouse, you’ll also get them in blue color. But if you decide down the line that you’d like to also buy a Magic Trackpad, it’ll need to be silver or space gray—you cannot buy or even browse blue, purple, pink, orange, yellow or green Magic accessories on their own. Meaning your accessories won’t match.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re configuring your iMac in the online store or buying it at a physical store; Apple’s policy is to only offer Magic accessories in colors with new iMac purchases. If I were in the market for a new iMac, I’d make sure to pick a Magic Trackpad instead of a Mouse because it’s so much better, more durable and charges from the back instead of the bottom (I’m also aware some people prefer to use a Magic Mouse on one side and a Magic Trackpad on the other).
Possible workarounds
But there may be a workaround. According to anecdotal evidence on the MacRumors Forums, the trick is to contact Apple’s support department with the request to order a Magic accessory that matches your iMac’s color. You’ll need to provide your iMac’s serial number so the support agent can find your purchase in the system and order your color-matched accessory.
However, one commenter on 9to5Mac claims to have messaged Apple Support about this, but the representative could not “bend the rules and allow me to purchase iMac with both accessories.”
It also doesn’t look like retailers such as B&H Photo might offer color-matched accessories standalone. Apple would need to approve this, and stocking these accessories in six colors would require keeping a larger inventory.
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