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

Actually, after I posted last time, I read that Apple had added some funtionality to the iPencil. I does indeed work as a selection device. And is much more precise than my finger. Which is all I need.

This makes me crazy that they won't add it, I 100 percent agree that what harm would it cause, seriously Hey Apple I would probably have one of your most high end iPads if you added this !! It's that same mindset with taking away the AUX was somehow acceptable. You can use a mouse and keyboard with a Samsung and hey look they still sell a lot of laptops. Really wish Apple would realize they aren't losing out on MacBook sales just hurting iPad sales and ******* off potential long term repeat customers that will just look else where for their next tablet.(android is only getting better)Apple why not start being a company that is for the people.

I buy and use iPads SO I don't have to use or schelp around extra cumbersome peripheral devices; like keyboards, trackpads or mice.

If more users learned to use the iPad's virtual software keyboard, you'll find Apple incorporated a very nifty, handy and very useful built-in keyboard trackpad feature, already.

The built-in trackpad feature has been with iOS for three full iOS versiond, now!

Been using this awesome feature for the last 3-4 years!

If many of the “old schoolers, haven't insisted on trying to turn iPads into a traditional laptops, you wouldn’t be complaining about an input device issue that Apple is never going to change its mind on.

If you needed a mobile computing device with a traditional ports, mice and trackpads, then you should have purchased a real laptop computer, like the NEW MacBook Air or some other laptop computer OR one of the Microsoft Surface line of tablets that supports ALL of which you seek!

The iPad is what it is and what Apple envisioned it would be.

IF you cannot work within the iPad/iOSVparadigm. then sell it and purchase the tool ( mobile computing device ) that fits and meets your needs.

I have lived with using Apple mobile iDevices with NO use of additional, bulky peripherals, of any type, for 8 years and do not miss these things, at all!

If I wanted a portable, mobile computer that used a traditional keyboard, mouse and/or trackpad, I would have purchased a MacBook Air!

Instead, I purchase iPads for theirnhigh portability and ultimate convenience.

I purchase iPads for creative use, not for doing the normal, mundane, boring things on it that ANY other full featured computer can do.

if you had the chance to use a mouse over the pencil would you still use the pencil instead ?

Yes. I don't like mice. I use the built in trackpad on my Mac (when I'm not forgetting and trying to tap the screen).

In things like meetings, using the Pencil on an iPad flat on the table is far less obtrusive than typing on a screen that stands between you and other people.

I would certainly use a pencil! I absolutely HATE mice. I haven't used one for years. They are the worst pointing device for computers in the world. They cause repetitive stress injuries (like carpal tunnel syndrome). Early user focus groups back before they made it to the Mac Classic universally panned them, saying they were stupid and would never catch on. They should never have been invented. Blame Xerox Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) for inventing these instruments of the Devil that have enriched hand surgeons. While Macs support them the built in pointing device for Apple's notebook computers are trackpads, not mice. And Apple pushes trackpads for use with desktops also. And iPads also have built in trackpads - just put 2 fingers on the keyboard and you can move the cursor with your fingers.

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 ?

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 ?

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.

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

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!

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.