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

You didn’t read my response. Constantly reaching my arm out to touch the screen has CAUSED my shoulder problem. The shoulder problem is because of the ipad. I already have a mac Air. I got the ipad because it is half the weight. Carrying a mouse with an ipad would not be any more inconvenient than carrying a pencil. You really are quite a rude person. Try listening/reading with greater care before you react in such a hysterical way.

Nobody here has any knowledge to answer “why” Apple does anything. Those are internal corporate decisions. Unless Apple says something publicly, there is no response anyone here can give to your question.

Why doesn’t Apple offer the option of a mouse or trackpad and let the consumer decide if they want to use it or not like Android style tablets do at half the price?

As noted, no one here would know the answer. However, what I can tell you is that iPads hold their value quite well. I'm sure that you could sell your iPad for enough money to buy an Android tablet.

If reaching for a touch screen caused serious shoulder problems, I'd suggest you have larger problems and might want to discuss the matter with your doctor.

I did not have the shoulder problem before I started using my ipad as a screen with a bluetooth keyboard. Good idea to sell it. Anyone interested in buying a recently purchased ipad 2018 6th generation so I can get an Android one so I don’t have to keep reaching to the screen and can use a mouse ir trackpad? I’m on the last draft of a book and all the reaching is killing my shoulder. (It was my doctor who told me the problem was caused by the reaching - apparently it’s not that uncommon with touch screens.)

It was my doctor who told me the problem was caused by the reaching - apparently it’s not that uncommon with touch screens.

Lots of people arrange their workspace in an un-ergonomic way. You might see if your doctor can arrange a consultation with an occupational therapist.

Every single business is trying to adapt their products to fit better the disabled and accessibility is one of the main words on the political correctness dictionary, even so you think that Apple shouldn't think about those kind of challenges faced by disabled ? If your visions is really true why they have a website in which they say that their goal is make their gadgets accessible to everyone ? It is just a bad a joke from apple? Like him I also don't feel pain on my shoulder after a few hours working with iPad.

I am a gamer but also a huge Apple fan. Since I picked up the 2018 iPad Pro I can't put it down. I have found some iOS games I like but really want to play World of Warcraft or overwatch type games on it. I can plug in a Razer mouse and keyboard to the a USB hub. That might sound odd but the Razer mouse has 12 keys at the thumb that can be used for gaming. I hooked it up to my 27" monitor, it doesn't scale right on the screen but still give a much larger view. That to me is so close to my perfect setup minus a curser so that games like WoW might port to iOS. There are so many games like first person shooters that are not fun for me without a mouse. I know you can argue use a Mac instead but a Mac doesn't get 120hz/fps. My Mac needs an eGPU to play games. Most games don't support Mac due to low user base but would jump on iOS in a heartbeat, so should I get a windows PC?

Until these other gaming companies, like Blizzard, port WoW or OverWatch to iOS and use iOS own UI and touch controls, none of what you want is going to happen.

You should be contacting these gaming companies and NOT try to convince/get Apple to supoort old input device paradigms and their very modern and high tech devices.

The mouse is never coming to any iPad. It is a nearly 50 year old input device that needs to end soon and let other types or]c more modern ideas for computer input devices to take hold, instead.

Mice and trackpads/trackballs are antiquated computer input devices that are in need of a serious technology update and re-thinking.

Apple, for its mobile devices, is trying to move away from mice and, at some point, maybe move away from the trackpad, as well.

The future in modern computing/mobile tablet technologies is NOT old school, 50 year old mice and trackpad technology!

Sorry.

Technology needs to keep pushing forward and NOT stay clinging on to old technologies and kludges to be able to adapt old technologies to new.

If the mouse is never added to the iPad it would be a huge disservice to a wonderful device. You can argue that it is antiquated all day but until Apple solves the poor ergonomic issues of a touch screen for long term use it will not be medically possible for a lot of people. The mouse is just a better option for ergonomic and precision.

On on top of that it is not a lot of fun playing games with you hand covering half the screen the whole time. Most games on iPad you have to interact with once a second or faster. This puts a hand between your eyes and the screen 80-90% of the time.

Hadn’t thought of gaming aspect. Had to stop using ipad with a keyboard because of shoulder strain. Glad i didn’t splash out on pro although i would do if they ever introduced a mouse or trackpad for it.

Apple doesn’t have to say anything.

Their actions speak louder than words.

It took Apple 20 years to move from single button mice.

They eliminated all sorts of old, antiquated technologies over the years!

IOS has been without mouse/trackpad support, now, for 8 years!

From its inception/ideation from the early 1990’s Apple, largely due to Alan Kay’s earlier, original tablet concept, Apple has always persued the tablet as a touch ONLY device with out any use of mice or trackpads of any variety.

Here is the proof from an Apple made promotional movie for their first envisioning of the Apple tablet device in the early 1990’s

https://youtu.be/WPS1DMlzz0M

Apple has stayed true to their tablet concept after all of these years and show NO signs of adding any bulky input devicex to ANY iPad. Nevermind the iPad Pro.

Like has been said over, and over, and over, again. The mouse of trackpad WILL become obsolete before Apple adds these inputs devices to any of their mobile computing products, like iPad.

It’s NOT going to ever happen!

Don't hold your breath waiting for this to ever happen.

It is the way it is and I have been getting along without any mice, trackpads, or external keyboards with my iPads for 8 years, now!

Don’t miss ‘em. Don’t want ‘em!

You are NOT a forward thinker.

MichelPM opined, "Apple has stayed true to their tablet concept after all of these years and show NO signs of adding any bulky input devicex to ANY iPad. Nevermind the iPad Pro."

At the risk of causing your head to explode I need to inform you that Apple sells and heavily markets an external bluetooth keyboard with the iPad, a "bulky input device" by any definition. Why is it you don't object to external keyboard support when there's a "perfectly usable, forward-thinking" onscreen keyboard on the iPad? And you do realize everyone in this forum is proposing Apple add support for a *bluetooth* mouse, correct? It seems you have visions of sauntering to your favorite Chipotle with your next-gen iPad Pro Plus S at your hip, all the while dragging an integrated cabled mouse behind you -- I can think of no other reason why you feel so irrationally passionate about a feature which would have zero impact on your experience with the device, unless you're a simple troll.

Mark D.

Uh,

I don't use ANY bulky wireless input devices with my iPads, at all!

Bluetooth input devices are just as much a PITA to carry around, too!

I use just third party stylus, small wireless portable drive that easily fits in my pants pockets.

I have been using the iPad's virtual software keyboard for 8 years, now.

I type a lot on that keyboard and have gotten very good with it over this amount of time.

If anyone used this virtual software keyboard with any regularity, you would know that since iOS 9, Apple coded into iOS a nifty software trackpad feature into the iOS virtual keyboard that turns the entire software keyboard area into one large onscreen trackpad that controls the “I”beam insertion point cursor in any text input app or text entering situation.

Something to be said about using the built-in tools provided by the iPad and iOS instead of relying on a whole plethora of external wireless input devices that need to be constantly schelped around.

This whole thread is pointless. Apple is never going to support a mouse on an iPad. Get over it.

I couldn't agree more.

This whole iPads need a mouse/trackpad to be a “pro” device thing has been pointless for years!

Pointless, and yet you just took the time and trouble to leave a comment. Why are you even following this thread if the feature under discussion holds zero interest for you? Do you and MichelPM fear that any effort Apple expends on iOS mouse support might delay the latest forward-thinking three-fingered pinch gesture or the like? That may be a reasonable position — it’s a stretch — but I simply don’t understand the umbrage seen in this thread from Apple apologists and self-styled experts who don’t want or need the feature and, further, feel an irrational drive to shut down any related discussion. Boggles the mind, honestly.

Mark D.

P.S. The iPad does meet many of my needs, while mouse support would make it near perfect — does that opinion offend Apple aesthetes?