Which dongle for usb mouse is better?

Having found a new toy, you’ll be happily experimenting for hours 🙂

Let’s not hijack the OP’s thread. The question has been comprehensively answered - and advice as to the most suitable adapter provided.

@maico48, for avoidance of doubt - this is the recommended adapter for your iPad:

Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter

https://store.apple.com/uk/xc/product/MK0W2ZM/A

The USB3 Adapter comes with an additional lightning port which you can use to charge your device while still using the mouse, but is $10 USD more expensive than the regular USB adapter.

I’d recommend the USB3 adapter so you can work continuously without worrying about battery charge.

I do not think you can use a wired USB mouse with any iPad/iOS/iPadOS device, regardless of what adapter is used.

I believe all compatible mice/trackpads need to be wireless, Bluetooth mice/trackpads.

No wired input device connections are allowed by iOS/iPadOS.

Sorry.

The Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter supports USB3 transfer speeds when used with a newer model iPad - and is therefore much more flexible/useful is you ever need to connect external storage devices. You also benefit from a Lightning pass-through power connection. The auxiliary power connection is usually required when using storage devices with iPad. The iPad alone can only source sufficient power for very low power USB devices; iPad cannot provide sufficient power for the majority of external storage.

The cheaper alternative Camera Adapter only supports the much slower USB2 standard - and lacks the Lightning power connection. As such any external storage devices and card readers will either need to be self-powered (such as camera), or you would require an intermediate powered USB Hub.

Both versions of the Camera Adapter can be used with wired HID devices, such as wired keyboard and basic mouse (two/three button + mechanical scroll wheel). More complex mouse devices, that require installation of driver-software, are not supported by iOS/iPadOS.

For the small cost difference, if intending to use external USB devices, you would be best advised to only consider the Lightning to USB3 Camera Adapter.

Are you sure about this?

I have this adapter for my older iPad Pro.

You mean to state that I could plug in a wired keyboard or mouse into this adapter, plugged into my iPad Pro, right now, and it will work with my iPad Pro running iPadOS 14?

I am going to immediately try this.

Yup,

Whaddya know?

It works!

I just plugged in an old Apple USB mouse from my old, 10-year old iMac!

I just learned something new today!

That is pretty cool and slick!

Single/Double clicking works!

I can't seem to drag select anything though.

Still, pretty slick!

Well,

I just found another use for this adapter!

I was just using this for my newly acquired SSD.

If I need a can use my iPad Pro now with a wired mouse.

I am going to try my wired Logitech trackpad to see if this will work.

I will get back to you with those results.

It was a “no go” for the wired trackpad.

I been toying with the idea of getting either the Apple Magic Mouse II or Magic Trackpad II fof awhile just to use with my iPad and my flat, wide-armed lounge chair as a regular mouse needs too much room to operate and there is enough surface area on the chair arms to use a regular mouse.

Still, this is cool and it might turn out to be helpful for my mom's iPad as she is older now has had trouble with her fingers being able to always register a touch on the iPad's screen.

I have her currently using a Logitech Crayon to use as a touch/navigation tool and that seems to work pretty well for her for most things except typing.

I bought her a Bluetooth keyboard to use, but she forgets how to pair it and doesn't keep in charged up, so she can use it when she needs it!

Anyhoo, this was really a really cool discovery.

Thanks,

I was completely clueless to the whole wired mouse feature.

I'm done now!

I mean, the iPad Pro's Magic Keyboard actually uses contacts(not Bluetooth) to transfer the tracking and typing data, so theoretically, you can use wired mouses/keyboards on your iPad (running iOS 13/14), because that is Apple's official way of trackpad and keyboard usage on your iPad. I use a Lightning to USB-C cable to wire my Magic Keyboard 2 to my iPad Pro and it works perfectly fine.

Yeah,

The wired keyboard/mouse input is pretty slick!

I was just completely clueless on that possibility since most everything related to an iPad is, usually, a wireless solution.

Pretty neat!

It's even neater that my nearly 11-year old Apple mouse works with my iPad with iPadOS 14.

That was a shocker, too!

Thanks!

Absolutely so.

Wired HID devices, such as Keyboard [basic] Mouse, YubiKey/U2F etc. are all supported.

Yes. That kind of connection was enabled with the release of iPadOS 13.

Giulio

Just figured out how to click and drag to select text and the mouse cursor switches type when it is inside of a text input box!

Pretty cool!