Are there bluetooth keyboards and mice available for an iPhone XR?

Would like to try using screen mirroring and external keyboard and mouse to use my iPhone XR like the computer it is.

iPhone XR, iOS 12

Posted on Mar 11, 2019 6:19 AM

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Mar 11, 2019 6:36 AM in response to TXASC

Bluetooth don't have device drivers or has to "support" a device Bluetooth has generic driver interfaces called Bluetooth profiles

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Bluetooth_profiles


so if a Bluetooth device support the HID profile it "just works" used the mac Bluetooth keyboard, used a Microsoft keyboard used some generic small windows Bluetooth keyboard the size of a matchbox

all worked fine with any ios device I paired it with (it needs to be paired though the documentation of the keyboard should describe how, and the keyboard can't have an active connection to another device at the time)


ios does not have a cursor for a mouse to control though so you can't use a mouse

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