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

I know this has been a question before. Has Apple pulled their head out yet and made it possible to pair a mouse with this thing. I have things to do and little time for what the world will be like in the future. Right now I need a mouse to work with my ipad pro. Or send me some kind of futuristic device that allows me to place my cursor where I want it without having to reach out and touch the **** display everytime i want move something or cut and paste or select an object, etc. The pen has it's moments but touch screens are for drawing not for a replacement to the mouse. I would like a pair of glasses that know exactly what my eyes are looking at within a micron and then when I blink that would place the cursor then I could say "select next word" and it would just do that. You know or,.... maybe for now a mouse....

iPad Pro Wi-Fi + Cellular, iOS 11.2.6, 12.9

Posted on Mar 5, 2018 3:46 PM

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Michael Black

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Posted on Jun 7, 2018 4:22 PM

GrinNBarrett wrote:

YES---you can use a mouse. You just have to step outside the bubble.

Swiftpoint GT Mouse.

Imagine that! Someone recognized that there is a world of need out there and created a product to fit the need. Furthermore, worldwide companies, like TEAMVIEWER, spent their own capital in recognition of the need, and created applications to fill the VOID that bubble people can't see.

You can use a select few mice and select remote desktop apps for support in a Remote Desktop session. But that‘s it. You cannot use a mouse in iOS itself, nor for any of the 99.9999% of the 2 million plus non-remote desktop apps in the App Store.

So for those people who are not interested at all in a remote desktop session app and are asking about using a mouse in iOS and iOS Apps, you’re answer is completely off target and simply incorrect.

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May 1, 2019 7:56 AM in response to lobsterghost1

MichelPM is forthright, even blunt at times but I've never known him to be rude.

May 1, 2019 7:59 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Nor have I. I can be a bit too blunt at times myself. I try to reign that in, but sometimes it doesn't come out that way.

May 1, 2019 8:00 AM in response to lobsterghost1

rbrylawski wrote:

Nor have I. I can be a bit too blunt at times myself. I try to reign that in, but sometimes it doesn't come out that way.

But we love you anyway!

May 1, 2019 8:16 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

Blush!

Phil0124

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May 1, 2019 8:36 AM in response to IdrisSeabright

"Rudeness is in the eye of the beholder" ... wait I think that's not right. Anyway, It applies.

May 27, 2019 7:50 AM in response to lobsterghost1

What about the "iPad Pro - What's a computer?" ad campaign from late 2017 - the commercial where the person is using an ipad with a keyboard and implies you don’t need a computer?

May 27, 2019 7:53 AM in response to lobsterghost1

You’re wrong. Apple dies see the ipad pro as a replacement. See: https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/11/19/18103515/ipad-pro-replace-your-computer-ad-apple

May 27, 2019 8:06 AM in response to lobsterghost1

But I believed the advertising when I bought my ipad.

May 27, 2019 9:17 AM in response to lobsterghost1

I’m sorry to hear that Apple’s commercials can’t be trusted.

lkrupp

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Jun 3, 2019 12:38 PM in response to netman09

iPad OS announced this morning at WWDC. No mouse support coming any time soon. A mouse on iOS is a dumb idea anyway.

Jun 3, 2019 1:03 PM in response to lkrupp

They also announced one will be able to use a finger to move a cursor more easily within iOS. It's a compromise and likely a good one at that.

Jun 3, 2019 1:24 PM in response to netman09

If you need a mouse then the iPad Pro is not correct device for you.

Jun 4, 2019 3:48 AM in response to IkechukwuNwanze

So hyped is right. I couldn’t help but think of you — and all the others who so lamented the lack of a mouse — when I read about this!

Jun 4, 2019 3:54 AM in response to ilovedaisies

Thanks mate. Am pleased with this very much.

Jun 4, 2019 10:52 AM in response to Istyrl

Istyrl wrote:

why a dumb idea?

I never said it was.

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