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Q: Mouse support for iPad pro

Will the iPad Pro have mouse support?

 

Something I would love to see and heard months back it might support, b

iPad, iOS 9.1

Posted on Nov 2, 2015 4:42 PM

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  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 1, 2016 7:35 AM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 1, 2016 7:35 AM in response to Michael Black

    Michael Black wrote:

     

    I've had my iPad Pro for about 4 months now, used daily for both work and personal use and have never once felt a need nor a desire for a mouse.  It works fine exactly as it is.  I use mine to edit Word documents, work with Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations and posters in prep., mark up PDF documents I read, take notes (both typed and free hand with my Apple Pencil), do my banking, correspondence, and a host of other things.  No need for a mouse at all in doing any of those tasks.

    You're obviously not a professional!

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 1, 2016 7:41 AM in response to Phil0124
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    Mar 1, 2016 7:41 AM in response to Phil0124

    If you want something that does everything just buy an Android, then you'll be Jack of All trades

  • by Csound1,

    Csound1 Csound1 Mar 1, 2016 7:47 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Mar 1, 2016 7:47 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    My hand (and apparently Michael's) is a far superior pointing device then any assemblage of electronic bits.

  • by Phil0124,

    Phil0124 Phil0124 Mar 1, 2016 7:53 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Mar 1, 2016 7:53 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    It would appear neither am I, though granted I've only had the iPad Pro for a couple of days, the need for a mouse has not arisen.

     

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    If you want something that does everything just buy an Android, then you'll be Jack of All trades

    Uh, I don't.  Perhaps you meant to respond to GeekBlog

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 1, 2016 7:51 AM in response to Csound1
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    Mar 1, 2016 7:51 AM in response to Csound1

    Csound1 wrote:

     

    My hand (and apparently Michael's) is a far superior pointing device then any assemblage of electronic bits.

    Amateur!

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Mar 1, 2016 8:01 AM in response to Meg St._Clair
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    Mar 1, 2016 8:01 AM in response to Meg St._Clair

    Meg St._Clair wrote:

     

    Michael Black wrote:

     

    I've had my iPad Pro for about 4 months now, used daily for both work and personal use and have never once felt a need nor a desire for a mouse.  It works fine exactly as it is.  I use mine to edit Word documents, work with Excel spreadsheets and PowerPoint presentations and posters in prep., mark up PDF documents I read, take notes (both typed and free hand with my Apple Pencil), do my banking, correspondence, and a host of other things.  No need for a mouse at all in doing any of those tasks.

    You're obviously not a professional!

    DoH!  Don't tell my CEO that please - I've managed to maintain the illusion otherwise very well so far

  • by Meg St._Clair,

    Meg St._Clair Meg St._Clair Mar 1, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 1, 2016 8:02 AM in response to Michael Black

    Your secret is safe with me!

  • by sallenmd,

    sallenmd sallenmd Mar 1, 2016 8:51 AM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 1, 2016 8:51 AM in response to Michael Black

    I

  • by sallenmd,

    sallenmd sallenmd Mar 1, 2016 8:54 AM in response to GeekBlogUK
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    Mar 1, 2016 8:54 AM in response to GeekBlogUK

    If you were shocked to learn this after purchase, then you failed to adequately research the product befor buying it. Don'e expect muse support for iPads anytime in the next several years. Ain't gonna happen.

  • by phaseshifter,

    phaseshifter phaseshifter Mar 1, 2016 12:47 PM in response to kristofior
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    Mar 1, 2016 12:47 PM in response to kristofior

    Hi,

    Jump Desktop 7.1 for iOS (https://jumpdesktop.com) now supports a physical mouse and an external keyboard without the need to jail break. It is a RDP and VNC client so you can connect to Windows, Mac and Linux.

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Mar 1, 2016 4:28 PM in response to phaseshifter
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    Mar 1, 2016 4:28 PM in response to phaseshifter

    phaseshifter wrote:

     

    Hi,

    Jump Desktop 7.1 for iOS (https://jumpdesktop.com) now supports a physical mouse and an external keyboard without the need to jail break. It is a RDP and VNC client so you can connect to Windows, Mac and Linux.

    Not really the point of this entire thread though is it?  Microsoft's RD client app has supported a mouse with Remote Desktop connections for years, as have numerous other apps. None of them, including Jump Desktop, have anything at all to do with actually providing mouse support in iOS with native iOS apps.

     

    Having an app that supports a mouse for use in a remote access session to another computer is a completely different matter, and one that numerous VNC and Remote Desktop client apps have supported in iOS for years.

  • by MichelPM,

    MichelPM MichelPM Mar 1, 2016 5:09 PM in response to phaseshifter
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    Mar 1, 2016 5:09 PM in response to phaseshifter

    This does not help the general iPad using communtity since you are only referencing a specific app ( a rare use remote VNC style app, at that) that only has mouse support for these style apps.

    Most, but by no means all, remote computer access apps have had some remote mouse and trackpad or trackpad-like support.

    Just like only certain apps only support full Bluetooth smart stylii, like the Apple Pencil or by other third party styllii designers and developers.

    But this kind of mouse support is not across all iOS apps nor integrated into iOS, itself.

    This post topic is about full mouse support integrated fully into iOS which may or may not come to Apple's mobile devices for some time to come.

    Who knows? Only Apple.

  • by rccharles,

    rccharles rccharles Mar 1, 2016 6:39 PM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 1, 2016 6:39 PM in response to Michael Black

    Microsoft's RD client app has supported a mouse with Remote Desktop connections for years,

     

    Do you have a link for this?  When  I looked, I didn't see a reference for mouse support on an ios device.

     

    R

  • by Michael Black,

    Michael Black Michael Black Mar 2, 2016 3:42 AM in response to rccharles
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    Mar 2, 2016 3:42 AM in response to rccharles

    rccharles wrote:

     

    Microsoft's RD client app has supported a mouse with Remote Desktop connections for years,

     

    Do you have a link for this?  When  I looked, I didn't see a reference for mouse support on an ios device.

     

    R

    No, I don't have a link, but I've been using MS's RD Client on my own iPads (currently an Air 2 and a Pro) for the past several years for VPN Remote Desktop sessions with my windows 7 desktop at work. RD client has always supported a mouse on the Remote Desktop. Several other Remote Desktop cloents I tried 2-3 years ago also support that feature. You can't really build a successful Windows remote desktop app if you don't build in mouse support on the Remote Desktop.

     

    In RD Client, you drive the remote desktop mouse by touch on the iPad screen, just as you drive the mouse in all iOS Remote Desktop apps.  iOS itself remains a purely touch interface, used to drive the mouse cursor (screen taps replacing mouse clicks) with your finger.  Jump desktop works the same way.  None of these apps in iOS work with a physical mouse - they support a mouse interface on the remote but the app in iOS is still purely a touch interface app.

     

    Jump desktop does NOT support a physical mouse as there is no way to connect a local mouse to the remote machine. It supports a BT keyboard, but it still requires you to drive the remote mouse by touch.  Any mouse in your hand with the iOS device has no way at all of connecting to the remote machine And iOS has no way of reading mouse input at all, so no way of forwarding it to the remote machine.

     

    Posters here are confusing a feature of touch support for remote mouse cursors with using a physical mouse with remote connections.  IOS does not support physical mouse input, for any app.

  • by phaseshifter,

    phaseshifter phaseshifter Mar 2, 2016 3:45 AM in response to Michael Black
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    Mar 2, 2016 3:45 AM in response to Michael Black

    Michael I think you missed the part about a 'physical mouse'. Yes - RDP / VNC clients support a mouse pointer that can be manipulated using touch gestures, but none (including the Microsoft RD Client as of now) support a physical mouse paired to the iPad. This is why I thought this is relevant to discussion that Jump Desktop now supports an actual physical mouse paired to the iPad which you can now use to control the remote machine.

     

    >> Jump desktop does NOT support a physical mouse as there is no way to connect a local mouse to the remote machine

     

    This is not correct, this is my entire point: Jump Desktop 7.1 now DOES support a physical mouse paired to the iPad. It has to be a specific mouse, but it works!

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