Mouse support for iPad pro

You are also quite free to express your opinion, as long as you're civil about it. I'm not sure why that seems to be a problem.

Mike K wrote:

Precisely. Please see the comment I was replying to.

Then let me hear your iPad Pro and Mouse Support question please.

Mike K wrote:

That's a deeply misleading answer. Perhaps if you're trying to sell MacBooks you should go work on a Mac store instead of looking on the help Forums deceiving people who come here looking for help. The MacBook does not have a touchscreen. The MacBook does not run iOS apps. OS X is a completely different platform. If you want a touch screen and/or tablet form factor is preferable to you, but need the option to use a mouse when necessary, there is no Apple product for you. To suggest otherwise is a blatant lie.

Please try and assist people who come here for help, not upsell them expensive products that they don't need. This is a support forum. The sales department is a completely separate section of the website.

How is it misleading?

I never claimed it had a touch screen, or that it was capable of running iOS Apps. Nor did i even suggest it at all.

Had I done so I would be in fact lying. Since I did no such thing, I can in turn accuse you of lying about what I said.

All I said is, if you need something with a mouse, to get a MacBook. The MacBook has a mouse. So it is in fact correct to suggest that someone who needs a mouse get a MacBook of some type. Because its the only portable Apple device with a mouse.

If they have other requirements in addition to a mouse, such as a touch screen (though the mouse requirement kind of makes this superfluous) or the ability to run iOS Apps (which can be pretty much entirely covered by the Apps available for the Mac) then there is nothing out there currently that can fill all of them at the same time.

I stand by what I said. If you need a mouse get a Macbook. If you need to run iOS Apps and a touch screen, get an iPad.

If you need all three then yes you are out of luck.

Please try to not write defamatory claims about other people simply because you do not like what they said.

Lawrence Finch wrote:

A new iMac comes in 2 versions, trackpad or Magic Mouse 2. A mouse is not automatically packed with it.

Sorry this is so off topic at this point, but I don't understand what you're trying to say here. The iMac comes with a mouse, but doesn't come with a mouse? If you order an iMac right now, it's default offers you a Magic Mouse 2. It also offers you a Apple Wired Mouse. Just curious what distinction you're making.

I was responding to a post that said an iMac comes with a mouse by default. It does not. I just went to order an iMac, and it did not default to anything. I had a choice of pointing devices and I had to select the one I wanted.

This is where my confusion lies.

That's what it looks like when you go to order the low-end iMac. I haven't changed anything about this, Magic Mouse 2 was highlighted. If you click on "Which device suits your needs best?" you get this overlay, which says:

"Magic Mouse 2 comes standard with your iMac," is was it says.

So can you understand my confusion when you say an iMac doesn't come with a mouse?

Depending on what you want to use the mouse for; it's already available for remote desktop using the Citrix X1 bluetooth Mouse.

I don't think it's necessary for navigating the OS, but hopefully other app's may take advanage of it as well at some point in the future such as word processing and graphic apps.

Russell Tudor wrote:

Depending on what you want to use the mouse for; it's already only available for remote desktop using the Citrix X1 bluetooth Mouse.

I believe you should have said it is only available for driving a mouse cursor on a remotely connected computer. It does nothing else in iOS.

This thread has people asking about using a mouse in iOS as an alternative to touch, not about specifically using a mouse with a Remote Desktop connection. The former use is not supported in iOS.

If you need to be pedantic ONLY is fine 😉

When using with a paired BT keyboard and mouse for remote desktop connections it is perfect.

I don't really see the point of using a mouse to control the iOS just to click on an app, but would really love to see support in specific app's.

It's hardly pedantic when your original answer implies a positive response to the topic of this thread, when in fact no such features exists in iOS. Your answer was misleading given the original question that started this whole thread. Other than the very specific feature of a specific company's brand of mouse and its specific software for a very specific use (Remote Desktop connections) there is no mouse support in iOS.

The answer does not depend on what you wish to do with a mouse in iOS if you wish to use it for anything other than Remote Desktop connections (and then specifically with an expensive third party mouse and their supporting app).

What do you feel you will gain using a mouse on the iPad?

Russell Tudor wrote:

I don't really see the point of using a mouse to control the iOS just to click on an app, but would really love to see support in specific app's.

Yet that is precisely what numerous posters in this thread do want and were asking about. Could they use a mouse with iOS as a complete replacement for the touch interface? And the answer to that is no, they cannot.

In a long thread like this, it is important to be precise in your answers. Otherwise, readers come away often with misleading understanding of just what they can actually do with their iOS device.

I have benign essential familial tremor (shaky hands), and cannot use touch screens of any kind without great difficulty. I have been using computers for 31 years and have been a network admin, systems consultant and have done programming used by the USAF.

A mouse is an essential device for me when using any computing or digital device. A stylus does not work for me. A mouse works because I can use my thumb and first finger on either side of the mouse to steady my hand and get the cursor where I want.
On the plus side for new IOS devices, I am able to use voice recognition to do most of my typing. YAY!

As my hands have gotten shakier I have gone from 60 WPM with less than 5% errors to maybe 20 WPM with 100 errors.

It sounds like an iPad is not the correct devices for you with your medical problems. I suggest you check out a MacBook instead.

Totally agree!!!! I am an Architect and *** / CAD Designer and sometimes I need to modify my designs from mi iPad Pro remotely connected to my Mac, it is too hard to get that done with the finger or the pencil, and a Macbook Pro is too big to carry around while I am on the go.