iPhone mirroring and mouse on apps

Hello, i have an iphone 8 plus connected to an external TV with the official Apple hdmi to lightning dongle. Obviously i use it in landscape, and i don’t care much about some apps being only in vertical, but there is a problem, if i want to use a mouse it does not follow the direction of what i see on the TV, but it follows only the iphone direction.


So when i have an app compatible with landscape mode i don’t have any problem because landscape app = landscape iphone, but when i have a vertical only app and the iphone is in landscape i have the mouse all messed up, right and left are up and down, and up and down are right and left.


Why the mouse only follow the iphone rotation and not the output rotation?


It is a mouse problem, an iOS problem or a TV problem? How can i fix it?



Thanks


iPhone 8 Plus, iOS 14

Posted on Aug 30, 2021 1:07 PM

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Posted on Aug 31, 2021 4:42 AM

UPDATE : finally i found a solution, i suggest to use a mouse with many buttons.

In Accessibility, under AssistiveTouch in the part of the device connection screen with the device name, click on the device name (for example “bluetooth device mouse”), and then the buttons can be configured with different tasks.


I chose the “rotation lock” feature, so when i open a “portrait only” app i click the side button on the mouse, and so it follow the vertical direction, up is up, down is down left and right ad left and right.

Then, when i go back to the home screen (on Plus models it can rotate to landscape) or i open an app compatibile with landscape mode, i click it again and the screen rotate to landscape.


Maybe there are other methods maybe even with automation for every app, but at least i can now manage the screen rotation without touching the iphone or having the mouse messed up.

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Aug 31, 2021 4:42 AM in response to GojiraX

UPDATE : finally i found a solution, i suggest to use a mouse with many buttons.

In Accessibility, under AssistiveTouch in the part of the device connection screen with the device name, click on the device name (for example “bluetooth device mouse”), and then the buttons can be configured with different tasks.


I chose the “rotation lock” feature, so when i open a “portrait only” app i click the side button on the mouse, and so it follow the vertical direction, up is up, down is down left and right ad left and right.

Then, when i go back to the home screen (on Plus models it can rotate to landscape) or i open an app compatibile with landscape mode, i click it again and the screen rotate to landscape.


Maybe there are other methods maybe even with automation for every app, but at least i can now manage the screen rotation without touching the iphone or having the mouse messed up.

Aug 30, 2021 2:48 PM in response to GojiraX

When you are transmitting video data in landscape mode then there is no problem because the App is compatible with that mode and is able to pass the mouse movement instructions accurately. It is not a mouse or a TV problem. The TV is just a display and the mouse is just a pointer. It is the App Compatibility that is the issue. When you are transmitting video data in vertical mode then all mice instructions will go over as if the phone is held in vertical mode. The app will, in this example, will not change to landscape mode and therefore no matter how you move the iPhone, the instructions will always go over as if it were in vertical mode. Write to the developers of the apps that you are concerned about in their feedback section (if available).


Axel F.

Aug 30, 2021 3:07 PM in response to Axel Foley

yes but, for example, app like Apple App store have the same problem it is in portrait and the mouse stay in landscape. So the iphone is still in landscape, the app is in portrait, the TV shows it straight in portrait with lateral black bands how it is supposed to, but the mouse do not follow the TV adaptation of the screen.


I’m not talking about the lack of landscape mode in some apps, but the fact that the mirroring fix the landscape and portrait changes showing always the right direction because the TV cannot be rotated, but not the mouse movement, that follow only the physical gyro rotation of the iphone. So if i’m making a presentation from distance i can’t use the mouse between apps because that difference that messes up the mouse axes.


ps. and even some UI parts of iOS force only in portrait, like when it asks for the touch id, but i can accept this, or i can accept also the black side bars on some apps, but why the mouse act like that?

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