I need to use a mouse with my ipad pro. What gives?

I also need a mouse into my iPad pro so I can proper use Revit through DaaS (desktop as a server) app. I don't wanna buy Citrix mouse. Why is so difficult to fix this ? There are so many customers asking for that, why Apple is doing in that ?

As already discussed, Apple deliberately designed iOS to NOT use a mouse. It is a touch interface. If you’re waiting for Apple to change that, then join the line of folks who’ve been asking the same thing since iOS was released.

Could Apple change that? They’re a trillion dollar company - of course they could. But they clearly and very deliberately have not done so, and there is no reason to expect they will do so.

If you need or cannot live without a mouse, then an iOS device is not for you, and never has been for a decade now.

But I like my iPad pro, I just need the **** mouse so I can work with Revit design on it through Virtual Desktop. I'm not asking for flying cars or hall 2000 AI, I just need to use my mouse, why it has to be such a nightmare ?

Because it’s Apple’s operating system and they’ve chosen not to include mouse support with it. Other than that, there is nothing any of we mere users here can really say. You’d need to contact Apple Corporate and ask them.

You bought a device powered by an operating system where the owner and developer of that OS has made certain design decisions that they have consistently stuck to. If those don’t meet your needs, wants, desires or expectations, then buy something that does. Clearly Apple does not agree with you that iOS needs mouse support. It never has since its inception and as I said, there is no evidence that Apple has any interest in changing that.

For Remote Desktop sessions specifically, there are third party solutions. Why Apple doesn’t offer one is again something you’d need to ask Apple about. Apparently, they don’t see any profit in it, or I’m sure they’d have done so, or bought up somebody like Citrix.

Why are you saying it never had support ? It isn't true at all, there wasn't any problems using USB mouse through adaptor with older iPad models, the biggest issue for Remote Desktop Applications were the small screen, now they solve the screen size issue and create a bigger one removing the USB mouse support.

Not true, unless you hacked your device. iOS itself has never natively supported a mouse, with any iPad, ever.

Citrix mouse, with their Remote Desktop iOS app, works to drive the mouse in the remote device. That’s something specific they’ve adapted to their iOS app only.

And bear in mind this entire thread is not about just using a mouse in a Remote Desktop session. It’s about using a mouse in iOS and with all iOS apps. That does not exist and never has.

The only iPad that had temporary support for connected USB mice was the very first, 2010 original iPad, 8 years, ago, and Apple soon put the kibosh on that whole idea when iOS 5 got introduced by Apple.

Apple stopped/killed native support for externally connected mice very early on in the life on the iPad.

Apple is NOT turning back on this.

We are all just Apple product users here.

Apple does what it wants to do most times.

It took Apple nearly two decades before they created a pseudo-multi button/multi-function mouse for Mac computers when Microsoft supported multi-button/multi function mice from the getgo, in the 1980’s, with Windows and Windows PCs.

Apple from the 1990's envisioned touch ONLY tablet computing devices.

They are not going to stray from this now that the iPad became a reality.

Not going to happen no matter how much you need or want this to happen.

There are other mobile tablet options available to you that supoorts loads of external input devices that you seem to need over anything else.

If you needed a mobile tablet computer with external mouse or trackpad support, the Apple iPad/iPad Pro was the wrong mobile tablet computing device for you.

Sorry.

The only way that I’ve ever known to do it was with the DoBox hub device and their app, which is not available in the App Store (never was) and thus effectively involves hacking iOS to install an anonymous app from a web site. So neither native iOS nor Apple have ever supported the use of a mouse in iOS, by any means.

This dobox costs 360 usd and I couldn't find a video showing a mouse working on iOS 12 within. If it was cheaper I could risk but 3 hundred is too much to take a risk but I appreciate your finding. Thanks

DoBox has been around for ages - don’t buy their hype about not jailbreaking iOS. Their app cannot be installed without effectively hacking iOS. And without their App, their hardware does nothing. Any app not in the App Store, or any device that requires a specific app not in the App Store requires some compromise in iOS security and default integrity to install and use. You use such things at your own risk, and without any support from Apple should issues arise.

Again iOS does not support a mouse and never has. Native iOS nor Apple have ever supported DoBox, their device nor their app to use it.

Nothing about DoBox nor it’s app to use their hardware is supported by Apple, nor natively supported in iOS.

The only way that I’ve ever known to do it was with the DoBox hub device and their app, which is not available in the App Store (never was) and thus effectively involves hacking iOS to install an anonymous app from a web site. So neither native iOS nor Apple have ever supported the use of a mouse in iOS, by any means.

No.

Back during the early days of iOS 3 and 4 on the 2010 iPad, I could use the USB to 30 pin dock adapter and plug in a USB Apple mouse and it would work and control the “I-beam” insertion cursor with the mouse.

This, also, worked with some of my third party notes apps, as well, but not all.

Apple killed/coded out/closed out using an external mouse of any type when they introduced iOS 5 and my Apple mouse stopped working with the USB to 30 pin dock connector.

There was no hack or use of a special app.

It just worked.

The same way I was able to use the same USB to 30 pin dock connector to plug in my Mac’s aluminum USB keyboard into my iPad instead of using a wireless Bluetooth keyboard to use my Mac keyboard with my 2010 iPad.

My Mac USB aluminum keyboard stopped working with my 2010 iPad after iOS 5 was introduced.

Apple promptly killed this wired input device connectivity with iOS 5.

None of this wired connectivity ever worked after iOS 5. Not on my 2010 iPad and NOT even on my later iPad 2 or 3 models.

To each their own. I despise and loathe trackpads. Terribly inefficient and hard to use. Cause RSI. Should never have been invented. Mouse much better. That said, I do not need mouse support for my iPad Pro because I never use it as a laptop substitute. Quite content with combination of fingers, virtual keyboard, Apple Pencil 2 and voice recognition for what I do with it.

Ain't gonna happen, no matter how much the small, vocal minority demands it. Complaining here seems to make some people feel better for a while, but changes nothing. Remember the Serenity Prayer. Let it go. Peace will follow.

True. Plus my shoulder is aching from constantly having to reach out to the screen. Am using my ipad with a bluetooth keyboard. It’s a major hassle to gave to keep on reaching to the screen and my shoulder is so bad that I’m going to stop using the ipad. Android type pads allow an external mouse so I’m not sure why Apple is so behind the times.

You have a injury that makes it difficult to use an iPad.

So, why did you purchase an iPad, then?

By design, to use a touch screen device, you always have to reach out to the screen. Even with a stylus.

Or hold it in one hand close to you and reach out and control the iPad’s screen with the other hand.

Why didn't you just purchase a regular laptop computer, than spemding money on a touch screen device?

As long as Apple makes MacBooks/MacBook Pros, Apple iPads will never be on equal footing with a laptop, ever.

Apple is NOT behind the times.

To be a truly ”take ANYWHERE]”, portable TABLET ( NOT laptop computer ) you can't be schlepping around separate mice and trackpads to use with an iPad.

Apple's tablet vision has always been mouse-less.

If you really can’t properly use a touch screen device, purchase a real and lighter full laptop computer, like a MacBook Air.

Forget a computer with a touch screen.

The touch screen is pretty much useless to you.

Good Luck to You!